So back to gelato! I was at Safeway recently and took a gander down the ice cream lane, because I have very little self control, and found this eye catching gelato. I'm a sucker for cool jars/containers, plus the flavor was Sea Salt Caramel, which I feel is such a hip flavor nowadays. Naturally, I was enticed and couldn't help myself. The Sea Salt Caramel did not disappoint! I tried the Cookie Crunch flavor too, which was not nearly as tasty.
I've collected a few of these jars, and since I didn't want to throw them away from their tasty charm, I decided to hop on the "succulents" band wagon, and plant some of those guys in these containers. I by no means have a green thumb...I recall a horrible incident from my youth related to gardening, in which i was helping my mom plant some flowers in the front yard, and after using the spade to dig a hole, I touched a worm!! I think it happened at the worst age, you're old enough to care that worms are gross, and still young enough to be impressionable. Hence, my fear of worms begins and gardening career ends.
I feel like the whole succulents/cactus plants are really hip right now. You can find them everywhere. So I bought these three little guys at my favorite local ACE. They were $3.99 each. I really have no basis as to whether that's a good price or not, but seemed okay to me.
Per my worm-ending gardening career, I can't really tell you the best methods for planting these little guys. All I did was put potting soil in the talenti gelato jar, smush in my succulent, and watered him. In retrospect, I probably should have poked a hole in the bottom for drainage. I made the potential fatal flaw of confusing succulents for cacti, as I was thinking "oh I won't even have to water it!" I suppose I could go back and easily drill or cut some drainage holes in the bottom. But I'm lazy, and they've been alive and looking great for a few days so I'm going to assume they're going to be okay! Either way, I think they're adorable! Another victory for ice cream!!
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