Grow your own young plants - with knowledge for green success

If you want to grow vegetables or flowers in your own garden, you can not only save money with home-grown seedlings, but also choose from a wider range of varieties and it's also a real pleasure. However, as with many things, there are subtleties in the details: temperature, light, soil and care must be right for seeds to grow into strong little plants.

In this course, we will show you what is important. Together, we will talk about typical challenges, introduce simple methods and give practical tips to ensure successful cultivation at home.

Contents:
Advantages vs hurdles and challenges
Knowledge about seeds
containers
Irrigation
Soil/substrate
Light
Pricking out
Hardening off
Planting out etc.


Aim:
Skills and knowledge to successfully propagate your own plants

For anyone with an interest in sustainable topics. Previous knowledge is not required.

The course is part of our "VHS Green" course series, which focuses on sustainability and conscious living. Aspects of sustainability are discussed, possible courses of action are shown and reflection is encouraged. The "VHS Green" course encourages personal and social change and promotes sustainable lifestyles. The learning objectives are to acquire knowledge about, for example, ecological, social and economic interrelationships and to motivate students to act in a reflective, responsible and resource-conserving manner. #vhsforfuture #BNE