Platt Discovery Cottage

Terrarium building

April 21st, 2009

We decided to brighten up the indoors with the coming of spring and put together a terrarium.   We couldn’t take plants from the ground as we don’t have plants here yet, so we headed over to the nursery.  It’s always quite an outing as Fuss wants to investigate every plant - he finds the most child-friendly horticulturist in the spot and monopolizes that person for much of the day.  There are also two ponds where he can feed the fish, plus there are many, many turtles.  I just have to be on my toes and Bug tends to get a bit close to the edge….

So, Fuss chose his two plants.  I had set aside a super huge mason jar (no clue where it came from) for the terrarium, but the plants were too big, so I had to use a large salad box.  Unfortunate since it is plastic, but I didn’t really have an option. 

The nursery provided us all the soil and charcoal, so we didn’t need to do anything except assemble when we arrived home.

First Fuss, put in the soil and added the charcoal.

Then he added the plants and that was that!

Fuss checks on it every day (it’s large so he can’t help but check it) and it’s doing really well!

Enjoying the journey,  Amanda

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