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By Sandy, on March 17th, 2009
 When planting magic beans with crystal soil during the beans’ seedling stage, it seems that the size and shape of the container matter much. I have grown my magic beans in four containers of different sizes and shapes. While three of these containers are smaller pots with a big flat bottom, one of them is a relatively bigger, fishbowl shaped one.
Continue reading Magic Bean Day 13 – Container Size Matters
By Sandy, on March 11th, 2009
 Because I want to use a wider variety of indoor plants that have different water needs for my tabletop garden – Bento Box, instead of planting all the plants into the same soil bed, I have kept them in individual pots. By doing so, instead of watering my plants together all at once, I can pick and water only those that I find are thirsty. And the same advantage applies to fertilizers.
So, with my garden container, my plants, pots, moss, etc, I was all ready to make my tabletop garden – Bento Box!
Continue reading How to Make Tabletop Garden – Bento Box
By Sandy, on March 9th, 2009
This is my tabletop garden – Bento Box. This is the largest tabletop container garden I have made so far and I love it! This tabletop garden is filled with 10 pots of flowers and foliage plants, including two orchids, a mini fittonia, a caladium, two kalanchoes, etc.
Continue reading Tabletop Garden – Bento Box
By Sandy, on March 9th, 2009
Garden Container
 If you want to put more indoor plants in your tabletop garden, you need to use a bigger garden container with a wider opening. The size of my garden container is approximately 35 cm long, 15 cm wide (the widest part of the container), and 10 cm deep. And I would suggest you to use a garden container with some weight, so the container will not topple easily, but can keep its balance and stand stably when you are arranging the plants in the container.
Sizes of Indoor Plants
The number of indoor plants you get for your tabletop garden depends on the size of your garden container. Continue reading How to Choose Garden Container and Indoor Plants for Tabletop Garden – Bento Box?
By Sandy, on March 5th, 2009
 When we make our tabletop garden, due to different reasons, we may want to keep our plants in individual pots. And if some of these pots cannot be fully hidden inside the garden container, we will want to wrap and cover them with moss. And sometimes, with the limited space in our tabletop garden, we may want to take the plants out from their pots and wrap only the roots and soil with moss as well. In this way, the moss holds the roots and soil together, acting more or less like a container for the plants.
Wrapping the pots or roots of a plant with moss is actually quite easy. I was actually quite surprised when I did it for the first time and found how easy it really was. I was like, “wow! That’s it?” So, believe me, it is probably easier than what you have thought.
Here is how to wrap pots or roots with moss.
Continue reading How to Wrap Pots or Roots with Moss
By Sandy, on February 26th, 2009
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.
Continue reading Watering Plants in Crystal Soil
By Sandy, on February 24th, 2009
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!
By Sandy, on February 19th, 2009
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
By Sandy, on February 18th, 2009
 I have a friend asked me if she could plant her basil and mint in these colorful crystal soil beads. Although crystal soil is suitable for many indoor houseplants, especially foliage plants, I wouldn’t recommend my friend to plant her herbs in crystal soil. This is because while most herb plants love sunlight, crystal soil is not suitable to leave under direct sunlight for a long period of time.
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
By Sandy, on February 16th, 2009
 While there are complete hydroculture kits (with inner and outer pots, water level indicator, fertilizer and such) available in many shops, we can save the money, set up and grow plants in hydroculture by ourselves.
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.
Continue reading How to Pot Plants in Hydroculture
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When planting magic beans with crystal soil during the beans’ seedling stage, it seems that the size and shape of the container matter much. I have grown my magic beans in four containers of different sizes and shapes. While three of these containers are smaller pots with a big flat bottom, one of them is a relatively bigger, fishbowl shaped one.
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