Category: Terrarium Care

I ruined my first “self-sustaining” terrarium by packing in fancy soils and skipping the cleanup crew. Three weeks later, fungus gnats and a sour smell told me everything I needed to know. Since...

I started using a spare glass cookie jar as a “prop box” after losing cuttings to dry apartment air. Within two weeks, stubborn hoya and pothos nodes pushed roots that used to take a month on an...

I’ve lost more plants to the wrong pot than to pests. I’d bring home a healthy herb or houseplant, tuck it into a pretty container, and watch it sulk, rot, or stall for months. If you’ve had a...

I’ve built more closed terrariums than I care to admit, and I’ve also watched more than a few fog up, sour, and stall. If your glass garden looks steamy at breakfast and swampy by dinner,...

I’ve built terrariums in everything from charity-shop jars to oversized cookie canisters. The shape that looked cutest on my shelf often sabotaged the plants inside — fogged glass, leggy stems,...

When I started potting houseplants in my apartment, I used straight bagged soil and wondered why my roots kept rotting and the mix turned brick-hard after a season. I learned the hard way that...