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Garden on a Plate |
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Anonymous Author (August 2006) |
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My kids love to go on nature walks, a couple of weeks ago we took a little container and filled it with twigs off trees and flowers, rocks ect. and we made a little garden on a plate, they loved it and water it every day, so I thought I
would share how to do it. I used moss but not everyone has access to that so it doesn't really matter what you use
You need:
- Old dinner plate
- Potting mix
- Moss, grass and small flowers
- Cuttings from shrubs or trees
- small pebbles/stones
- Jar Lid
- Kitchen foil
- Put a 2cm layer of compost on the plate press moss into about 3/4 of the area
- Put small pebbles around the plate
- Push a fir twig into the soil to make a little tree, push the flowers, shrubs and grass into the soil
- Mould kitchen foil around jar lid to make a little pond, cut out a circle of foil and draw fish onto it and fit into bottom of lid
I gave them a spray bottle to spray it with but the flowers need to be replaced as they tend to die, but they love it.
