Lightweight, waterproof containers are a miracle of modern technology. You might never know how much you’llneed a bucket或者一个水壶,或者几十个小花盆,直到你没有它们,再也没有办法得到它们。
That’s one way in which society’s trash can be quite handy. Check out this post from our sister site, Crafting a Green World, below, and see how today’s grocery store plastic salad containers can be tomorrow’s little greenhouses for growing microgreens on every sunny windowsill.
How to Grow Microgreens in Plastic Salad Containers
整个冬天我都会吃很多杂货店的沙拉,但我不会因为那些糟糕的塑料沙拉容器而感到压力。如果你喜欢在塑料中种植食用植物(不是每个人都喜欢,但有些人喜欢,所以要保持冷静),那么这些糟糕的塑料沙拉容器就是种植微型蔬菜和种子的绝佳微型温室。Here’s how:
1. Find a plastic salad container.
我用的是有盖子的中等大小的透明塑料盒,我在当地的大型杂货店买了满满一盒沙拉或小菠菜。如果你不买塑料盒装的杂货店沙拉,但你想试试这个,那就问问周围的人。你肯定有一个Facebook上的朋友想把他们的透明塑料沙拉容器送给你。
2. Turn your plastic salad container into a mini greenhouse.
You canclean the label offof the lid of your container, but you don’t have to. Do use a needle or awl to punch a few holes in the lid so thatyour greenhouse plantswill be able to breathe.
Fill the plastic salad container about halfway full with an excellent-quality potting soil, moisten the soil well, and you’re ready for planting!
3. Plant seeds for sprouting or microgreens.
Follow these handy-dandy微型蔬菜种植说明from “the Mulch”, or start seeds in the container following the directions on your seed packet.
4. Let the greenhouse do its magic.
Put the lid on the salad container, and set it in a sunny window. The soil should remain damp but not over-saturated, so keep an eye on it and spritz it with water from a little spritz bottle when it needs it–these are excellent jobs for a kid.
5. Harvest or transplant your plants.
Your microgreens should be harvested while they’re still less than two inches tall. And, best of all, you only need to cut enough microgreens for your current meal (since they’re happy growing where they are), ensuring that your supply never spoils, and that every time you eat them, they’ll be so perfectly fresh!
NOTE: other baby plants should be transplanted whenever the seed packet instructions recommend. One advantage to using a slick plastic container as a seed starting pot is that the seedlings are really easy to remove for transplant–they just slip right on out!
6. Keep it going.
Although you can use the same container for a few meals’ worth of microgreens, and you can use the same container more than once, if you’ve got a few plastic salad containers you can also stagger planting so that you have a continuous supply of microgreens.
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