Cold and Warm Weather Gardening Terrarium Containers

These terrariums are small, enclosed shelter containers used to maintain seed germination indoors when outdoor temperatures are cold. The terrariums are see-through structures because of the light requirements for the seeds. You plant a variety of vegetable seeds that need light reaching the seed during germination. Seed germination takes place with little or no moist soil mixture covering over the seeds, or it takes place with just moist soil mixture under and around the seeds. Also seed germination takes place when you just slightly pressed the seeds into the moist soil mixture, or when you just slightly covered the seeds with the moist soil mixture. Examples include cucumbers, peppers, squashes, tomatoes, melons, and lettuces. Flower seed examples include snapdragons, petunias, begonia, poppies, and impatiens. You press the seed starter mixtures lightly over the seed to have light coming towards the planted seeds. When germinating seeds, follow seed packaging instructions when you are planting seeds indoors in terrarium units, or when you are direct sowing seeds outdoors in the garden, or when you are sowing seeds in warm weather outside in these terrarium containers.

For seeds that require darkness to germinate, like onions or sunflowers, you cover the terrarium unit with black plastic during germination. When leaves develop move plants to a sunlit area.

In cold temperatures keep seedlings and transplants warm and in well-lit spaces.

Transplant seedlings from a seed starter mixture into a potting mixture in planting pots after the true leaves have formed on the seedlings, for feeding of the transplants’ roots. Feed transplants with a diluted organic plant fertilizer. Move transplants to a greenhouse, or to a greenhouse-type setting, or to a much larger type of terrarium vessel to nurse the plants until planting the plants in a garden or in a garden container. Greenhouse-type settings are sunny, warm enclosed moist environments for plants to flourish. Use plant heat pad and extra artificial lighting when you create the greenhouse setting.

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