Snack garden (Kids-Edition)

Item No. 501359

My first garden! Learn, paint and grow your own Grow Kit!

Bot. name: Solanum pimpinellifolium (cherry tomato) , Fragaria vesca (strawberry) , Arachis hypogeae (peanut)
Characteristics: With the snack garden, delicious and healthy snacks can be grown in a playful way and in the end, harvested and consumed! The home-grown snacks can be eaten straight from the box, served as a side dish on a roll or as a snack! Peanuts must be dried and roasted before consumption! The fun factor and creativity don't fall by the wayside! The box is also decorated with the included coloured pencils.
Cultivation & care:

Recommended age: from 5 years | Adult supervision recommended!

Our tip: As soon as the tomatoes and strawberries are ripe, they can be eaten straight from the box or packed as a snack! Peanuts must be dried and roasted before consumption!

Care instructions

ecobox contains coconut fibre tablet, wooden plant stick for writing on, compostable planting cup and sa plant seed bag.

Slide the lid off the wooden box and remove the contents. Paint the wooden box however you like using the included coloured pencils.
Open the peanut seed bag and place the seeds in a glass of lukewarm water overnight to pre-swell. Then place the brown growing pots next to each other in the box and divide the coconut fibre tablets evenly between the cups placed.
Slowly pour water into each cup until approximately below the edge of the cup. About 5 minutes later, the swelling tablets have magically transformed into coconut fibre soil.
Plant the pre-soaked peanut seeds approx. 1 cm deep in the soil and cover with a glass. Open the other seed bags, plant one variety in each of the other two cultivation pots and cover them with a little soil so that they are completely covered. Label plant markers and carefully attach them to the respective plant variety so that you can then distinguish between the plants.
Place the wooden box in a bright, warm place (22 to 25°C) and only water moderately (approx. 40 ml about every 3 days – avoid waterlogging!). Now you have to be patient!
After about 10-18 days the first green plants begin to sprout. Continue to water the ecogarden only moderately.
After approx. 4-5 months, the first ripe tomatoes and strawberries can be harvested continuously.
As soon as your plants get too big, simply transfer them into flower pots with a little soil or outdoors using their compostable nursery pots.
If the peanut plant wilts and turns yellow (after approx. 4-6 months), it is finally time to harvest! Carefully lift the entire plant out of the ground with a digging fork. There will be around 20-30 peanuts hanging from the root ball. Hang the plant to dry for 2 weeks. Then separate the pods and dry them for another 2 weeks (e.g., spread flat on a tray). Only then can the peanuts be roasted in the oven/pan (salted if necessary) and eaten!
You can then use the wooden box itself as a practical pen or toy storage box, for example!