We're back with my friend Ben Newell of Worcester Terariums. We've talked about how to get

started in this incredible hobby, this incredible craft. Now let's talk about how to make sure that you stay in the

hobby and you're caring for your terrarium. We talk about this a lot Ben in

in the world of gardening with someone kind of goes gung-ho into the garden season

one and then oops I grew too much I'm having to keep

track of everything in August when maybe it's I'm a little burnt out on the garden and

so I kind of want to make sure that people don't have that happen to them in terrariums.

So after you've built one, maybe you have a couple, do you have like a daily maintenance,

weekly maintenance routine that you're going through?

Um, Not really.

So I think with a terrarium, unlike a house plant, which you know you probably have to water

like a certain amount of times in a month or something. Some terrariums can go months or even years without

an extra drop of water. Like each one is different. I think it's really important to get that across.

I would keep an eye on them. So if you've made one terrarium, like I would definitely keep an eye on it.

Because one of the things you have to get right is the watering. So first and foremost you don't water to a schedule. So you know once a week, twice a week, once a month, like if you water to a schedule what's going to happen is you're going to over water. And in interarium there are no drainage holes so if you overwater your

soil will become waterlogged it will become anaerobic and it will start to smell and no other than bog plants no plants really like growing in that environment

So watering is really important

So soil obviously is really important, but assuming we've used that A, B, G mix, then you're good to go.

But light, light is the really difficult one to try and explain to people because you know terrariums these plants actually

live in the forest floor layer or understory layer of the rainforest where they're not

being blasted with sun. So how does that translate to our

homes like a good rule of thumb is to allow the terrarium to see as much of the sky as possible

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