Tag: grown with love

Last week we sowed our first ‘Salad Pots’

First we needed to clean the pots to get rid of any bacteria or decease from last years plants.

We then put coco disks into the pots and added the seeds.

We chose salad and herb crops because they are fast growing and we love cooking and eating them. We added water and watched as the disks filled out and firmed the seeds down.

We covered the pots with cling film to help them keep the humidity to germinate the seeds.

One Week Later….

We had a look in our salad pots to see if any of the seeds had germinated.

In Jacks pot we found a Cucumber seed had grown, it had reached over 1 inch tall.

Tracie very carefully picked up the seedlings in the coco disk and showed us the roots coming out of the disk.

Alba said ‘yuck they are long and wiggly like a worm!”

We then looked in Alba’s Salad Pot, we were surprised to see that her Cucumber had not started to grow. However she had two healthy Tomato plants growing. These were about 1/2 an inch tall.

We decided to move the Cucumber and Tomato seedlings into a bigger pot and leave the herbs in the long salad pots. This was to give them extra space to grow healthy root stock.

We recycled glass jars to cover the seedlings. This was to help them keep the plant warm and to encourage them to grow healthy and strong.

Once we had repotted the seedlings we covered the other coco disks with fresh nutrient rich soil to encourage them to start germinating.