Small innovations to help you grow healthy food indoors!

Leading innovator in sustainable plant pots, elho, is always looking at ways to get creative with planting. Its latest ‘grow your own’ collection helps to encourage everyone to invite a healthy dose of nature into their homes, no matter the space available. Whether someone is inspired by Instagram to grow an avocado plant, or wants to add homegrown microgreens to their meals, elho makes it easier and more stylish than ever before.

For people finding it difficult to keep a shop-bought basil plant alive, or those who are looking to repot a homegrown plant, elho’s bouncy basil pot is here to help. A common mistake is over or under-watering basil! With an integrated water reservoir, the basil plant can absorb as much water as needed, when it needs it! The inside pot lets the basil float and bounce depending on water levels – once it has sunk wholly into the outer pot, it’s time to refill. This two-part pot is a fun and convenient way to keep your basil plant healthy. And if basil isn’t your garnish of choice, this pot is equally great for growing other herbs like coriander, chives, or parsley.

Ever fancied growing an avocado plant from but don’t know where to start? elho’s avocado floater offers anyone the possibility to easily start growing a luscious avocado plant from scratch! Simply place the floater on top of a dish filled with water so the avocado pit can soak up as much water as required. After 3-4 weeks, the pit will start to split open, and roots will appear. After 6-8 weeks, the first leaves will start to appear. Once the plant is around 15cm tall, transfer to a pot filled with soil, place in a sunny spot, and watch your avocado tree start to bloom!

To help the journey from pit to tree, elho’s amazing avocado pot includes a floater and a growing pot. Start by placing the pit in the floater until the roots grow, then replace the water with soil when the plant is 15cm tall. The inside pot is suspended in a water reservoir, allowing the pit to absorb water as needed, providing a great growing environment, and requiring minimal attention. There’s also no need to wait until summer to begin your growing – place the pot on a windowsill or in a sunny spot where the plant can thrive.

Microgreens are a super healthy, delicious addition to meals, packed full of powerful vitamins, minerals, and protein, and elho’s magic microgreens helps people have a supply on hand. Sprinkle seeds on the strainer and fill the outer pot with water. Use the cover to germinate your seeds in the dark, and remember to replace the reservoir with fresh water daily. Just a week later, a fresh bunch of microgreens can be harvested!

With these small but innovative products, it’s easy for anyone to introduce an element of ‘grow your own’ into their lives. As long as there is light to let the plants grow, your plants can now flourish no matter how small the available space. It’s easy, too, to create a green interior that is sustainable and stylish, with the entire grown-you-own collection available in two beautifully earthy tones - choose between soft toffee terra or calming leaf green. These also make a great gift for your green-fingered friends, or someone looking to start a new hobby!

elho is on a mission to make the world a greener place, so its whole collection is made with recycled plastics, produced using wind energy, and is 100% recyclable. Find the full collection, and more details about its commitment to sustainability at https://www.elho.com/en/

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Editors notes

elho is a plant pot innovator on a mission to inspire as many people as possible to surround themselves with greenery and nature. It does this through creating beautiful, sustainable plant pots and accessories, both for inside the home and for outdoor spaces, whether you have a garden, patio or balcony. Designed to make plant care easy and accessible for everyone, its wide range of products feature clever innovations, such as built-in water reservoirs and invisible wheels, and are created with style at the forefront.

The family business was founded in 1964 and since 2019 elho is proud to call itself a B Corp. As of January 2024, all of its products are made from 100% recycled plastic using wind energy, and are 100% recyclable. In addition, elho has an A-class TÜV certification for the use of recycled plastic.