Bringing moss into your home using a dish garden can add a gorgeous natural indoor feature. With minimal preparation and attention, your dish garden can thrive with lush greenery. Moss is a visually interesting plant that does not flower or have roots. In favorable conditions, it can form a mounding green mat. While homeowners can become frustrated by outside mosses competing with turf at the lawn, this hardy plant can be welcomed inside in a container because of the little maintenance needed.
Decide on a dish or terrarium of any size without drainage holes or using a saucer underneath. Put about three inches of potting soil in the dish.
Gather moss outside using a hand shovel to dig the plant up alongside a small quantity soil where it is growing or purchase moss from a nursery or online; collect enough moss to cover the whole soil surface of your dish garden. Search for various kinds of moss to enhance the visual appeal. Collect objects such as small stones, sticks, and small accent plants to have in your dish garden.
Spray the soil of the dish garden with water so it is thoroughly moist. If you’d like to get a mounded impact immediately, build up the soil in 1 place of the dish garden so it is slightly higher than the remainder of the garden.
Press down firmly on the soil throughout the dish garden, as moss grows on firm surfaces and this will prevent soil from washing out from under the moss.
Firmly press one section of moss into the soil at a time, piecing the borders of the sections together until the whole soil surface is covered. Incorporate any extra elements, such as rocks, sticks, or other plants, in the dish garden in this time.
Spray the top of the moss with water once it is all implanted and put your dish garden at the desired place; moss typically prefers shade.
Water your moss dish garden frequently for the first three weeks after it is implanted ensuring the plants don’t become dry.