Have you received a seed paper card? Don't wait and start planting, because now the fun part starts! With this step-by-step plan, green fingers and a little help from nature you ensure that your growing paper will sprout. Let's grow! 

Growing paper, also called flowering paper or seed paper, allows your message to blossom. But the seeds do not bloom by itself. The right circumstances and a little patience is crucial.

Step-by-step plan for planting growing paper

Step 1. Moisten your growing paper
First, thoroughly wet the growing paper. And we mean really wet! Only then will the paper dissolve properly whichs allows the seeds te germinate.

Step 2. Place your growing paper on the soil
Place the growing paper inside in a pot or outside on a balcony or in the garden on the earth. Preferably use sowing soil or potting soil for the vegetable garden. The best time to plant outside is from mid-May to October. Indoors in a pot is possible all year round. See below for the best sowing times for the specific seeds in our growing paper.

Step 3. Cover your growing paper with a thin layer of soil
Cover the growing paper with about 1 to max 1.5 cm of soil. This way the seeds get enough nutrients, protection and sun light to germinate. If you cover the paper under a layer of soil that is too thick, the seeds will germinate less quickly or not at all.

Step 4. Water, water and water
Certainly in the beginning we advice to give some water every day, so that the paper remains moist. It is best to use a sprayer with a soft head so that the paper gets the same amount of water everywhere. A watering can or a cup without a nozzle can prevent the paper from getting evenly wet and the seeds from sprouting equally.

Step 5. Sun, warmth and lots of love
In addition, provide a light and warm place. Be careful with a spot in full sun, especially in summer. Then your paper can dry out and the seeds will not germinate. Now you have to be patient! The first plants germinate within a week. Continue to give your plants a lot of love and attention even after germination. You can now give a little less water than in the first week.

When is the best time to plant growing paper?

Our seed paper is available with different seeds, each of which has its own plant instructions:

Bee and butterfly mix

Help the bees and butterflies a little with these wild flowers. It is a mix of Antirrhinum, Godetia, Gypsophyla, Dorotheanthus, Virginian stocks, Poppys, Alyssum and Dianthus baby doll.

• best time to sow in the garden is between March and May.
• sow indoors from April, after which they have to go outside in mid-May.

The bees and butterflies are having a hard time all around the world due to biodiverity loss. More and more wild flowers are disappearing while bees are extremely important for pollinating and fertilizing flowers and plants, like our fruit trees and vegetable plants!

Is your growing paper not sprouting?

How sad! Have you followed all the steps a described above? For growing paper to bloom, you need some green fingers and a little luck. Was your pot in full sun light? Was there a heat wave or a heavy thunderstorm? Then it can unfortunately be that your seeds dried out or drowned.