Adding Sheet Moss to Plant Gift Baskets

Video Transcript

"We've added our plants. Got our soil packed down good and tight. We've trimmed off our plastic and now we're going to fold the trimmed off plastic back into the basket to keep the water from running over the edge as we're watering. So we tuck that in nice and then after that's all done we're going to add what we call sheet moss. And it comes in sheets. And it doesn't look like a whole lot just looking at it like this but it adds a great finishing touch to our basket. So we use the sheet moss. We break it up into different pieces and we just place it on top of that plastic tucking it in and tucking it around the plants so that the dirt does not show. And as you can see it adds a really nice finish to our dirt. Otherwise you've just got bare dirt showing. I'll do a few more pieces here around the back. And if you need to they have what they call a greening pin that you can get at your local florist or craft store and that kind of helps pin the moss in place and gets it, keeps it in place for you so it doesn't come out very easily. So we're taking a few of those pins to put that in place. And the pin doesn't show. It just keeps it down and close to the dirt. This also helps conserve water in watering your plants because the moss gets wet and will keep the soil from the water from evaporating from the soil."