I often feel like a mad scientist. Trying out insanely silly things that just might work together.

In art college, my thesis project was an interactive, computer controlled kinetic painting. I applied electronics and motors to painted panels. Designed a software program to turn the motors in either direction. All activated by a digital scale disguised as a platform to turn it on for random amounts of time. The idea was to give each viewer a completely different, and individual, experience of the painting.

I know, whacky. The painting department didn’t like the electronics, and the electronic department didn’t like the painting aspect. I was truly onto something.

But, I guess that was part of the reason that I got into the business of miniature gardening in the first place. It was because there wasn’t a book in the library (yes, it’s been that long ago) on “How to Start a Miniature Garden Business."

Heck, there weren’t even any Web sites that referenced anything remotely like it. When I Googled “miniature garden,” all I would get would be an artificial garden or two attached to dollhouses. Nothing living, no leaf, soil or plant to be found.

Not even garden railroads or fairy gardens. Where was everyone?

So, I started experimenting back then and came up with an number of fun and interesting solutions to our everyday miniature garden problems, and continue to do so today. Ten years of solid research. When was my last vacation, anyway?

So, the other day, I was finally convinced that my latest experiment was ready for the public eye. I twittered it a couple of times and put in on the Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Facebook page and asked everyone what they thought of my new miniature terrarium idea: too cute, or too small?

The consensus: One Depends, five Likes, one Too Cute and one Too Small. (You can see my feedback rate isn’t very good!)

Hmmmm, and the winner is?

Maybe I’ll go back to the drawing board.

Miniature Moss Terrariums. It’s bound to catch on somehow.

Oh, and by the way, “How to Start a Miniature Gardening Business” will be a chapter in my upcoming ebook, “How to Garden in Miniature." Stay tuned or join my mailing list through my Web site.