DIY: Moss Pots

Hello hello, 

Today i'm gonna show you how I made my very own moss pots! They're super cute and easy to care for. I was so excited when I first saw DIY tutorials for moss graffiti, here's a link to one of them ☞ DIY moss graffiti I think the videographer has some really unsteady hands or he just.. I don't know, likes to shake a lot. I mean how cool is it to just paint some gunk on the wall and KABOOM moss. But turns out it isn't as easy as it seems, apparently different types of moss like to grow on different things, some on rocks, some on soil and some perhaps on tree stumps, so it's best if you grow them on the things they like or they won't be very happy bunnies. Another reason being my mum won't let me use the blender for moss cause she's afraid we will all die of moss dirt poisoning from the contaminated blender. Enough rambling now for moss pots!

What you'll need: 

• Moss
• Peat moss
• Small piece of wire 
• Small piece of wire netting
• Small pot

1. First you need some moss! So go moss hunting, my mum has lots of bonsai so it was easy for me to find some. Look how thick and velvety the moss is ahhhh ~ I'm not sure if it's illegal if you pick moss from the pavements along the road.. Probably not so that's probably one place you could get some. 

2. Next, you need to find a substrate for it to grow on. For me I got some peat moss which is just dead and dried moss. You can get some from a plant nursery or anywhere that sells gardening products. 

3. After you've got all  your materials ready, attach your wire netting to the base of your pot. This step is just to keep things from falling out through the hole at the bottom.

4. Lastly, put everything together! Peat moss then your moss lump! Remember to squish your moss lump snuggly into the pot so it's in contact with the peat moss. And that's it!

To take care of it spritz it with water regularly as moss thrives in humid weather and keep it out of direct sunlight ☼

Here are photos from today! I actually potted mine for some time already, if i'm not wrong it's been about a month and they're still alive and happy! Except one that has a little bit of mould growing on it so I've been putting it out in the sun more, hopefully that helps to kill the mould? Haven't found a method that gets rid of mould without killing my moss baby though.. 

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