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A few days ago, a friend asked me how often and how much should she water her plants when planting in crystal soil. I would say we should add water to the crystal beads whenever the beads shrink to around half of its size or to a size that cannot stably hold up the plants anymore.
This is my tabletop garden – Bento Box, filled with sweet orchids, mini fittonia, caladium, kalanchoes … a total of 8 pots of flowers and foliage. As the photo here shows, I think this tabletop garden needs 2 more little plants to be called as completed. Probably some type of white flowers or some green foliage plants would make a nice match. What do you think? Continue reading Tabletop Garden – My Bento is Almost Ready!
I realized the need to remake my tabletop garden – Ocean Breeze when I watered the garden for the first time after its making. I shouldn’t put the stones and marbles at the bottom of the container in the first place, at least, not so many of them. Originally, I put the stones and marbles there for three reasons. Continue reading The Remake of Tabletop Garden – Ocean Breeze
But if you want to grow a plant that needs lots of sunlight with crystal soil, you can cover the crystal beads with a dark cloth to avoid them from drying out too quickly. However, this may have defeated the decoration purpose in the first place. Many plants that thrive in crystal soil are hydroculture plants. For example, many foliage plants that like shade and humidity are the most suitable to grow in crystal soil or to root in water. And here are some examples. Continue reading Suitable Plants for Crystal Soil & Hydroculture
Of course, the hydroculture kit can make your life easier in some degree, but, by ourselves, setting up one that doesn’t have a water level indicator, and using it to grow plants, isn’t rocket science either. Here, let me show you how to pot plants in hydroculture.
A few days ago, I found the leaves of my beet were all weak and sad. At first, I guessed that it might be due to insufficient sunlight. Continue reading They Just Want More Water!
I am just being playful there and stole some action figures from my brother and put them in my Tabletop Garden – After Jurassic. It is quite cool and I will probably do more. Maybe as my brother’s request, I will make a garden suitable for my brother’s Gundam action figures. haha 😀 Continue reading Tabletop Garden – After Jurassic x Dragonball
Here, let me show you how to pot a plant with crystal soil (aka soil moist).
Put a teaspoon of crystal soil into a container.
Add water and soak them for a few hours according to the instruction on the package. I always add more than enough water for I will drain any excess water with a strainer afterwards. If you use clear crystal soil and want some color crystal beads, you can add food coloring now.
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