String Garden

Kokedama - Japanese Moss Balls (String Gardens)

Indoor Gardening is expanding itself form garden to balcony to rooms and to strings, yes String Gardening is a kind of Indoor gardening. 

Thinking of filling the empty corner of a living room or dinning room? If yes! May you would like to add some fancy lamp shape, but before doing so take a look to this Indoor garden master art. This living art would be a vivid charm into your living room, known as String Garden.  This is a simple tutorial to make your own Kokedama using a combination of peat soil and Bonsai Soil.

Materials required:

- Plants                - Soil - Peat soil and Bonsai Soil (In India all the coastal region have peat soil)

- Live Moss         - Dry Sphagnum Moss
- Cotton Thread   - String

 

Procedure:

Step 1: Remove all the soil from the plant,exposing the roots.

 

Step 2: Mix the soil (Peat soil and Bonsai Soil) together. Generally the ratio is 7:3. But do believe on your instinct by making the consistency right.

Step 3: Once the soil is mixed, prepare small balls with help of water. Do not make it too hard, it would be difficult for the roots to penetrate.

Step 4: Tale a bunch of Sphagnum moss and wrap it carefully around the roots in a circular motion. Take a cotton thread to tie the moss.

Step 5: Make a small hole in the soil ball and gently place the plant inside, close the soil ball carefully.  

Step 6: Take small sheets of any moss and press them firmly on the soil. Don't leave any space on the soil. 

Step 7: Choose  a nice space shady space, install a hook and hang your wonder piece of your art.

Step 8: To water your art piece use a mist spray bottle once a day.