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How to grow wild strawberries – perhaps from a Sprout pencil?
How to grow your wild strawberries How to successfully grow your own strawberries – perhaps from a Sprout pencil? Everybody loves strawberries – so why not grow these irresistible wild strawberries...
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Planning your garden
Planning your garden Are you dreaming of warm weather, sunshine, blue sky and green grass? I am! I can’t wait to get started in our roof garden here at Sprout. But it is still a little bit to early to...
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How to get rid of fruit flies
Get rid of fruit flies Aaarrrggghhh! We have got fruit flies and we don’t like it! Despite our aim to be nice and all-embracing people – we must admit – fruit flies are not welcome at Sprout! How to...
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Transplant cherry tomato
Transplant Cherry Tomato plants Grow your own this year and learn how to transplant cherry tomato It is almost time to start sowing tomato seeds if you want to grow your own small, red vitamin bombs....
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how to make flower pots
How to make flower pots With some imagination you can make flower pots from waste and resued cans. You can buy a lot of really nice containers and flower pots to grow your own plants, but if you like...
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Soil
Soil The importance of good soil – You will get better sprouting results if you optimize the growth conditions of your plants. Soil is one of the three major natural resources when it comes to...
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Non GMO seeds
Non GMO seeds from Sprout This is why a seed is not just a seed Did you know that wrong seeds could ruin your home gardening experience? In order to be chosen as a “Sprout Seed” for our pencils, cards...
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starting seeds indoors
Starting seeds indoors Starting seeds indoors is when you sow seeds indoor as opposite to direct sowing outdoor. You sow the seeds in small containers, transplant them to bigger containers and then...
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How to plant chili
How to plant chili Hot – hotter – hottest – Get your Sprout Pencils on fire with our new selection of hot chili. We have made a new 3 pack of Sprout Pencil dedicated to hot chilis. And they are hot in...
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Why is chili hot?
Why is chilli so hot? The burning hotness from a chili fruit is due to the alkaloid called capsaicin, it is therefor chili is hot. The more capsaicin in the chili the higher rate on the Scoville scale,...
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Microgreens
Microgreens – Easy. Quick. Healthy. Do you know what microgreens are? Those tasty, tiny plants that are so easy to grow and which spice up your meals in a few seconds. At Sprout we have made our own...
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Earth day – plant a tree
Trees for the Earth – lets start planting Now you can plant a tree in the occasion of Earth Day. In cooperation with the organization Forests of the World, you can now buy our limited Sprout Pencil...
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Grow your own basil
Grow your own basil and get a taste of summer Don’t you just love the taste and smell of basil? When I smell basil I think of summer, pizza and juicy tomatoes with mozzarella and olive oil – lazy days...
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Aphids
Get rid of Aphids When you grow plants you will also experience that they can get infected by insects like aphids. We have a lot of plants at the office and we have tried many times to have visits of...
View ArticleMake your golf event greener with plantable golf pencils and scorecards
Sprout wants to rescue millions of golf pencils and scorecards each year from ending up in the trash. By equipping them with seeds, they can be planted after use and grown into flowers or herbs....
View ArticleMagical color pencils: first you color, then you plant and finally you eat!
World-first sustainable color pencils from Sprout are great gift ideas and ideal for both kids and adults. Danish eco start-up Sprout makes the world’s first plantable and patented color pencils that...
View ArticleComing soon: The world’s first plantable makeup pencil
Denmark-based Sprout will not settle for just making eco-friendly pencils that can sprout into herbs, flowers and vegetables. Now they are also developing the world’s first makeup pencil, so...
View ArticleInterview with the founder of sprout
Eight questions for founder Michael Stausholm 1. What is your background? I grew up in South Zealand in Denmark and was later trained in shipping at A.P. Møller/Mærsk. I lived in Asia (Indonesia) For...
View ArticleFrom a student idea to 10 million-sold seed pencils
Remember the plantable Sprout pencil that a group of MIT students invented back in 2013? The patented pencil has become world famous. These days, the start-up behind Sprout World reaches 10...
View ArticleEat your Sprout pencil
HOW TO MAKE GAZPACHO SOUP FROM A PENCIL? We put some of Denmark’s best chefs up for a challenge: “Grow some Sprout pencils and show us how to make a dish with them.” Today, Chef Per Thøstesen from...
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