hi everyone so for today's video i'm going to do a diy potting mat
thank you so much for joining me today and i love to repot my plants indoors especially in
my bedroom but i got to be honest it can get really messy and clean up is a pain afterwards
so by having a potting mat it will hopefully minimize the mess and make it clean up a lot
easier for me and probably is going to be a lot cheaper or maybe cost just the same
if i go ahead and buy one from amazon or etsy instead of diying one but i want to diy a potting
mat so that it can be the size that i want and also decorate it with the designs that i want
and in my mind it's going to be a very easy and quick diy since all i have to do is to cut the
mat to size and put the fasteners and then put the decorations or the designs that i want using
my cricut but usually when i attempt an easy diy i ran into roadblocks and some difficulties
that makes the project a little bit longer or a little bit more difficult
than expected but if all goes according to plan which i'm kind of confident it would be
i'm going to repot my cebu blue pothos using my potting mat so that's what we're going to do today
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yeah so let's go ahead and get started so there are essentially two things that we need to create
this diy potting mat first is this i got this from ikea this is supposed to be a drawer liner and it
is 59 by 20 inches which i think is big enough for the size of potting mat that i want to use so this
one is kind of made of plastic i believe so it's going to be durable but it's also very bendy which
makes it great for a potting mat and i think most of the potting mats sold are also made from the
same materials and i got this for five dollars at ikea and to turn that into a potting mat we
need snack fasteners and i got this one from my clothes this one is about like five dollars
for a set of seven and this is the heavy duty snaps and you need tools to be able to attach it
to tarp or anywhere that you need to attach it to which is this one and this is about three dollars
and some cents and because i had a michael's coupon i did get a 20 off discount on this so
together this is probably about six dollars in all so with the tarps i spent about like eleven twelve
dollars but it's not bad especially since i will be able to create a potting mat that is custom to
my needs and wants and for tools we're gonna need a pair of scissors or some type of cutter
maybe some clips to help hold the potting mat a cutting mat if you have one and for me since i
want to decorate it my cricut materials along with my cricut maker so that's pretty much what we need
to create this diy potting mat so let's go ahead and make it so first thing that i did is to cut
the mat to the right size this was 20 by 54 inches and i just went with a 20 by 30 size of a mat and
i'm just gonna use the leftover for something else and then after that i measured maybe two to three
inches from the edge to create the corners pinch them together and hold them temporarily with clips
and i did that for all four corners and it was a little bit tricky at first but i had to make
sure that it was all even or as close to even as possible so that the potting mat would lay flat
so that is the size of the potting mat and what she would look like once i put on the fasteners
on the corners instead of the clips and i had to bring the project outside for this part because
there's going to be hammering involved and i don't want to break the granite counter and it's
also confusing to figure out which part goes with what part since the instructions in the packaging
wasn't that clear but once i figured that out and also determined where i want the snap fasteners
i use a screwdriver to poke a hole on where i want it to go and i made sure to poke the hole on both
sides because i want them to properly line up and after that it's just hammering the pieces
together in all four corners but the tricky part is to make sure that you get it right each time
because there's essentially no do-overs once you start hammering it kind of like snaps into place
and it's hard to like repeat the process without damaging the whole thing or having to use enough
another set of snap fasteners in order to do it so just be careful and take your time
if you're going to use snap pass okay so here is the potting mat all done and yeah i did have
trouble putting this but once i figured it out it worked pretty well um hopefully it stays and the
middle part is not standing up too much but that's okay i think over time it will just learn to bend
and yeah that's pretty much it i would probably create a strap so when i roll it it has a strap
but it's going to be like the same process this is the design that i'm going to put in a potting
mat at least for now i might add like some stair leaves or just like you know more planty stuff
later on but we'll see how this does um when i'm repotting because
i don't want it to like abstract the potting or snag with soil and stuff when i am repotting stuff
on the potting mat so we'll see how this does and then if it does okay i'll add more decor so this
is the potting mac i have finished it so i'm gonna let this cure for a little bit because it is vinyl
before i actually use it so i'm gonna have lunch first and then i'm going to repot this a cebu blue
pothos so it is the next day and i am going to pot up my cebu tacos so let's go ahead and do that
i just have to snap the corners there we go so i think this one is
fine i let it cure overnight that's why i didn't pot yesterday like i said i would but
all right let's get the snaps on
and the last one
okay
so there you go so i am repotting this cebu blue pothos into a soft self-boring planter
because i don't want to really upgrade the size of this but this also gets dried out pretty quick
because i know it's already like super rigged down so i'm going to repot it in self-watering planter
i'm like just trying to dig in into this to grab the plant and there you go as you can see this
is the root system it is very rebound and i'm trying not to like super disturb it so i'm just
gonna like pop it into the self watering planter and then just fill it with soil just like that
there we go so what i am using is this miracle gro potting mix that is for cactus palm and citrus so
this one has like peat moss sand and perlite so that makes it a little bit more frustrating but
since it's in a self-watering planter it's good so that it doesn't absorb too much moisture but also
what i'm doing so see with the potting mat i can just like dump it in here and not have to worry
about it i am gonna add a little bit more pearlite to it because i don't think there's enough perlite
and normally i would have a a tool to mix this but i'm just going to use my hands
there we go and then just make sure that all the way to the side
so i like the size of this potting mat because it gives me a lot of room
to work with and a lot of the potting mats for sale are like kind of small
so i'm just putting soil in between
um
and there we go
just have to
there it is and i just have to put water in the water reservoir
and i'm gonna do that in a second but first let us clean up and now that i have the potting mat
clean up it's so much easier now all i have to do is gather the soil in the middle
there we go
this is my soil bag this light down a little bit so it's easier
to do so so i can get it on camera but i just have to like
hold it and dump it in so easy and tada that's it all clean and i just have to wipe it down a little
bit for some of the rest of you but that's awesome so that is like cleanup is so easy now now that
i have a potting mat and repotting so easy just using a paper towel wrap and as you can see the
vinyl doesn't come off it doesn't peel so that is great and voila and now i just have to like
make sure it's dry before i fold it up
and i haven't created this strap for it but
i think i have a couple upstairs that i could use but right now
i'm just using a rubber band but i'm definitely gonna make a strap because it's easier than
using this rubber band but yeah here's my potting mat and that's how i created my diy potting mat
and also repotted my cebu blue pothos i hope you enjoyed that and if you're going to recreate this
diy potting mat let me know down in the comments how well it turned out for you
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