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The perfect indoor start for your garden. Easy to use, just add water and seeds. Transplants directly into the garden or larger containers. Clear dome maintains humidity and warmth during germination period. 72 cells. No. 5272: Greenhouse No. 5708: 72 cou
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Product - DON'T BUY FROM HERE THOUGH,
By This product is *identical* to other greenhouse kits sold on Amazon under the names "Carefree Jiffy Greenhouse", "Ferry-Morse Seed #5272 Pro Greenhouse Kit", and perhaps there are others floating about with different names and prices. Indeed unusual but nevertheless they are all the same. You get (72) peat disks, each clad in a fine biodegradable netting, in an 11" x 22" plastic tray. A clear plastic lid is included. Add (2) quarts of warm water, the disks expand, pencil-push your seeds in, blanket the seeds with peat harvested from the pellets, lid the tray and place in indirect sunlight until the seedlings grow about 2", move outside and prop open the lid in partial sun, then transplant in about a week or less. I've been using this for vegetables -- everything from tomatoes, beans, corn, pumpkins, even carrots (snipping off the bottom pellet mesh with a scissor before transplanting). Everything grows well and fast and, for me, it's more determinate and satisfying than sowing seeds directly into the soil. The plastic is recyclable -- #1 or #2, I think -- so either dispose of responsibly or keep reusing (as I do) by purchasing bundles of the pellets which are cheap and sold separately. On a final note, if one wanted to replicate the kit themselves it would be quite easy. The "internals" of the Jiffy kit are the aforementioned plastic tray which has (2) parts -- a 2" deep tray and a lightly perforated rectangle of plastic with circular depressions for the disks seated inside. When the water is added the internal tray raises and floats. You could use an ordinary baking pan for the external tray and non-cardboard egg cartons with a few tiny holes punched in the bottom. Roll and pack small balls of peat and wrap each in thin cheesecloth. Place the balls in the egg cartons and snip an opening on the top to place the seeds. Cover the tray with clear plastic wrap. Transplant the balls.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It works exactly as you would expect.,
By If you want to put up a lot of annual flowers, this is just the thing. However, don't let the fact that there are 72 pellets pressure you into making 72 plants (I've planted WAY too many Tomatoes). The pellets are easy to pop out and set aside if you do it before you add the water. After you add water, they swell up into huge blobs of soil, contained in some delicate netting. The tray is very clever, with a series of drainage channels to make sure the water is distributed evenly. About the only nit I have is I wish the dome were a little taller. It's cheap enough that you can dispose of the tray later, but on the other hand, refills are available as well, so it's up to you.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time on the Burpee kit! This is the best!,
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This review is from: Ferry Morse Seed Co 5272 Jiffy Professional Greenhouse (Kitchen)
I decided to grow my own garden plants this year, so I purchased this kit at Walmart. (It's funny, I thought it was named "Jiffy" because that's on top of the package.) Anyway, I am eminently pleased with this set, and here's why:
1. It's easy to use. Just add the warm water and wait until the little peat bags have expanded. Two words of advice about this: a. Make sure the peat bags are in the cells properly, laying flat. If not, it gets a bit messy, but it's not the end of the world. Just try to straighten it out later. b. Don't use hot tap water. When you use warm or hot water from the tap it leaches the lead out of the seals in your plumbing. So use water that has been heated by another source. Why grow organic cucumbers if you add lead to the starting mixture? 2. You can reuse it. The peat bags lift easily out of the cells (well, you might have to untangle some roots, but that's gardening). Jiffy, or whoever they are, sell the peat bags separately. 3. It's easy to water. You can gently remove one of the peat bags and pour the water into that cell, than lift up the edges of the greenhouse so as to allow the water to flow all around every peat bag. 4. It's cheaper than the Burpee (which does not have advantage #2 and #3). Burpee does offer little seed markers, but I have not yet found a writing utensil that can make a mark on them, which sort of defeats the purpose. I also, sorry, Amazon, recommend you buy this set locally. It's much cheaper than purchasing it online. But if you can't get it locally - hey, it's a great little kit and still not too expensive!
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