How to Grow Grass for Inside Arrangements

Choose small clay flower pots, 4 to 6 inches in diameter, to plant your grass in. Larger pots can be used to decorate larger tables if desired. Be sure there are drainage holes in the bottom of the pots.

Fill your clay pots with a well-draining potting soil, preferably one with peat moss added. Grass needs to be watered frequently but does not do well in heavy soils that hold in the water. Fill the pots to within 1 inch of the rim with your potting soil. Water the soil well in each pot.

Sprinkle your grass seed over the moist soil. Do not worry if the seeds overlap somewhat, and do not push them into the soil. Sprinkle a little soil over the seeds; do not tamp the soil down. Rye and wheatgrass make good choices for arrangements, since they both grow very quickly indoors.

Using a water bottle with a fine mister on it, lightly mist the seeds in the pots. Be careful not to water so heavily that it washes the seeds out or water pools in the soil. Mist the seeds daily just to keep the soil moist.

Place the pots in indirect sunlight by sitting them in front of a large south-facing picture window or under fluorescent lights. In about 3 to 4 days you will see the grass sprouting, and in 7 to 10 days your grass will be about 5 to 8 inches high.

Trim the grass to the desired height. Cut either raffia the silk ribbon into strips that are twice the length as the diameter of the pots. Tie around the pots, making a bow with the loose ends. Set your grass arrangements on a tray in the center of your table or place several pots in a row down the center of a long table.