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Pinterest Fail – Planting Seeds in Ice Cream Cones

I pretty much have a black thumb.  I wish that I loved plants and getting all dirty and making them grow, because I love the way that plants and flowers look, but I have very little interest in getting them into a full grown state and maintaining them.  That lack of interest means I often forget about them which causes them, of course, to die.

In a case of opposites attract, Jason loves plants and planting and gardening and making things grow.  Which is great, as long as I can sit in the air conditioning all clean while he’s outside in the heat getting dirty.  So when he mentioned a few weeks ago that he saw some seeds at the store and thought that the kids would like to grow some, I thought, “Hey! I can actually pitch in because I saw a pin on Pinterest about starting seeds!”  At which point I showed him said pin and my entire Gardening board thinking that he would be super impressed with my interest and shortcut knowledge.

He wasn’t so sure about the seeds in ice cream cone idea but agreed that it would be neat if it worked and that the kids would get a kick out of it.  So he bought the seeds and the cones and he and the kids proceeded to plant 24 ice cream cones with seeds and dirt.  And then we witnessed an epic Pinterest fail.  The picture from the pin is on the left, our actual ice cream cones are on the right.

IMG_5339I don’t know how whoever came up with this ice cream cone idea and took this picture got their cones to stand up and last long enough to get huge sprouts of seeds but ours definitely didn’t turn out that way.  No matter how much or how little water was added to the cones they all started to collapse almost immediately.  And after a few days they were starting to mold with no signs of sprouts so we had to toss them.

On the positive side our house did smell very much like an ice cream shop for a few days!

 

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  1. Reply
    Alecia
    April 30, 2015 at 8:28 am

    This was very helpful to me because we were just getting ready to plant in cones this morning. I googled it one more time just to make sure I had it right and read your blog and a couple other people said it didn’t work either. So thank you for taking the time to let us know!!

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      TalesOfAPeanut
      April 30, 2015 at 9:53 am

      Alecia,

      Glad that it helped! It was disappointing when it didn’t work but is a neat idea in theory!

      Jennifer

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      Lindsay
      May 10, 2015 at 8:08 pm

      Wish I read this earlier today. We did this today and with one watering they all look like they are going to have some issues.. whoops.

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    Lillian
    March 16, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Glad I read this before trying it with my Girl Scouts tomorrow.

  3. Reply
    Robin
    March 25, 2016 at 11:36 am

    Ugh…I just tried it and mine just turned out like yours. darn it.

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    Kathy
    March 30, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    I did this yesterday and they were looking dropey. Today the squirrels couldn’t resist the cones and made a mess of everything. Ugh ice cream cones are food for a lot of creatures…dogs, birds, ants.

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