Make an AWESOME Terrarium for FREE!

Terrariums are great fun and I honestly think the world would be a better place if everyone would make one! I could list a number of reasons why I think this, but that's not the point of the video.

I get a ton of comments and excuses from people as to why they can't make a terrarium. Some say that they don't want to kill any plants and others say that they don't have any money. My response generally is something like, “They don't cost much to make and are easy to maintain. You should create one.” That said, I don't believe in making excuses for anything and in this video, I wanted to take down the myth that terrariums are expensive to construct. In fact, you could make one for $0 if you are still on the fence.

It should go without saying that there are a number of ways to make an effective terrarium. The methods that I show in this video are simply adaptations of what I find to be extremely effective. So if you have not yet jumped into the world of terrariums, now is your time! Seriously, go outside and get it done already... you'll thank me later.

On a side note, if you're not good with plants or live in a temperate area, I recommend starting out with moss, liverwort and selaginella (spike moss), if you can find it. Mosses are in most cases bullet proof and work extremely well in terrariums. Also a lot of temperate plants just won't work in a terrarium. You may think you're doing something wrong, when in actuality it's the plants. Also, I'm not saying that you're guaranteed to have success the first time. If for whatever your first terrarium fails, don't be discouraged! It happens to a lot of people. The whole process is a beautiful learning experience, if you choose to embrace it.

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[ImNotACatLawyerButIPlayOneOnTV]

My husband's going to hate you..
I just got finished my gardening stage and now I've found your channel. 😻

[jacrispy]

Him: Star moss, Liverwort, Sphagnum moss...


Me: Short grass

[crazymema]

Im goona make terrariums with my 6 year old grandson. I will ask him "want to make a forest?"''.

[ericpenrose]

Just made one of these with my 16 month old daughter. She wasn't much for designing the terrarium but as for gathering materials she was surprisingly good at picking stuff out once she saw what I was grabbing. I think this may be the first interest we've ever truly shared that she could play a constructive role in.
Building terrariums and keeping animals was a strong hobby of mine when I was younger that I fell out due to a demanding career. I would never have guessed that this period of my life would be the one I could pick up an old hobby when my attention is stretched thin between a stressful job and toddler. Instead she was actively interested in figuring out what I was picking up and which jar I was putting things in, and contributed more resources than keeping her out of trouble demanded. It was an amazing afternoon which quite possibly shared a love for the hobby, and the outdoors in general, in a much deeper way than I though she could pick up at this age.
While this is absolutely something which would have been some part of her life eventually, this video and your channel are 100% the reason we went out to do it yesterday and made it happen much sooner than it would have otherwise. I just wanted to take the chance that you would read this and that you could know that. You may not be curing cancer or digging wells in impoverished communities in Africa (that I know of), but you are absolutely doing real good in this world, and the passions you are cultivating and nurturing may even save this planet, or even help terraform another!

[madiisaccount]

I love how you talk about the substrate being alive! So few people know what micro-organisms live in the dirt around us and the important roles they play in their ecosystems. I truly love how educational you try to be with your channel, I think it's wonderful the way you care for your plants with the same amount of love as you do your animals.

[pg]

I built my first terrarium within a couple hours of watching this and I love it! My options for plants and decorations were quite limited to what’s in my backyard bc corona but I’m still proud of my little creation. My family also liked it and I think in the future we might build some terrariums together. Thank you so much!

[Cottoncandycorner]

I remember my mom had a great Terrarium when i was young....love it!

[bestdadoftheyear]

Me with my small jar : I'M ABOUT TO BECOME *GOD*

[jastark]

I loved how you basically, nicely told everyone "Stop messaging saying you can't afford to build one! You're just F-ing lazy!" lol

[captainjohansson]

Hi!
I made a ”Plant Jar” a couple of years ago, but it died after about a week or two. Everything turned black and it smelled horrible...
BUT I did’nt throw it away!
Last week I saw it in the window were I left it and there was a little, tiny green leaf!!! Now there are five or six of them and some other kind of moss or what it may be.
Never give up! Life is everywere!
:D

[TheIamastone]

"Polish the outside of the glass to remove fingerprints."

-Proceeds to grab the glass multiple times.

[robertdooley]

I do a lot of landscaping and your channel has given me a new way to keep myself busy 😃 i can take snippets of my clients yard (and some other goodies i find) and i can make myself a bunch of these for little to no cost. not even for profit, but as gifts for people i know or do yard work for. 😃🙏 i have a whole bunch of people who've helped me escape my demons and this is a really cool way i can gift them some of my gratitude.

[colgaterob]

I watched this morning, it's 10pm now and I've finished my first terrarium :) thank you so much for inspiring a fun single-day project as well as a possibly future interest in the hobby. Subbed.

[artursarajs]

Make a video on how to identify different mosses

[annaa]

I really appreciate how you first observe nature and then use it as your guide!
If more people did this regularly, the world would be such a better place...

[juujuutuubi]

I now had a terrarium for like almost a month now and the moss is growing like crazy! It has some tiny rocks and crystals inside it and even a tiny glass frog :3 I love it so much!

[maevebeepbeep]

"No more excuses"
Me watching at 3 o'clock in the morning and in the middle of Enhance Community yep no more excuses to get out of the house

[Ash-xxzd]

Amazing video for a beginner. Instead of wondering how to do it or execute the project or find materials - since u covered it all - I spent my entire time as I'm watching the video planning where I'll be collecting. Which is FUN!!!! Definitely gonna have a coffee table terrarium. 😊

[carolineavant]

My 4 yo daughter and I went on a hike in the lowcountry of South Carolina and made our first terrarium with elements we found from the hike. It was next to a marsh and Creek. So we added a dead dried out fiddler crab, a hermit crab shell, cicada bug shells, a small live oak tree Branch with resurrection fern, some granite. My daughter loves it and wants to keep it in her room. Thank you do much for the idea. I'm inspired 🌊🏞️🌿🦀🐚🦠🐵

[janetmichel]

Just discovered that our cleaning lady has been washing out and stashing old glass containers under my sink. It's a literally forest of glass containers!
Guess what all my friends are gonna get as presents now...! 😂