Hey everyone!
Do you ever constantly purchasing something that requires delivery with protection because your items are delicate and you will end up with so much bubble wraps you something cringe a little when you discard it to the bin?
How about turning cylinder bubble wraps or beverage sachets into seedling nurseries' sowing "box"?
You know most of the time when you want to start something the best recommendation would have been "get a sowing box", but that would just create a lot of extra junks later should you choose not to continue doing so.
So I have been testing different junks from one to another, just trying to reuse something before discarding them in the bin and learning gardening at the same time.
I tried using glass bottles from essence of chicken stocks and well, it does look good, but eventually it is not suitable when it is directed with too much sunlight causing moss growing that could choke the roots.
Besides, just with water can't really get seedlings to grow up strong and healthy.
Recently I have started trying out with used bubble wraps that instead of throwing them away, I squeezed in pit moss soil with fertilizer combination so that each seedling has their own "private space to grow" while still having able to have the seedlings to grow together.
Needless to say, a picture speaks a thousand words, and these young capsicum plants grew really healthy before re-potting .
But I don't have bubble wraps all the time, so I looked for more obvious junks.
Beverage sachets.
The interesting part is that every single time when I tried using plastic bags for planting I would have encountered moss growing around due to the sun light and ended up choking the roots.
Often times it will end up getting more items for re-spraying; not that it is not good, but most of the time seedlings doesn't need a pot just yet that will be needed on a later date.
Therefore, using beverage sachets is a lot more practical in a sense it is
Small
Thick material with aluminium oxide that protects from change of environment in the soil
But does it work?
So far if you see this new nursery set up I have made for these seedlings so that they can have better lighting from the balcony you can actually see that the different stages from seedlings to young plants for the Capsicums (as part of my experiment), you can see that with proper soil choice they thrive very well with tiny instant beverage sachets. Furthermore if you see how they were being held up, those were actually from the tiny containers from yogurt packaging bottles; another item not being thrown away immediately but became mini pots to hold these seedlings up.
2 junks spared from the landfill with a new purpose until they cannot be used anymore.
Not too bad of an idea, right?
