Chaos writes:
So… what does one do with cereal boxes, if you can’t bear to stick them in the recycling, how about cooking up some cute little Papier–mâché seedling pots.
We ripped the cardboard cereal boxes and rice cake boxes into small pieces, and gave them a good soaking. Then pulped the pieces with water, in the blender (sssh, don’t tell Daddy).
Draining the pulp in a colander, squeezing the excess water. Flour the work surface, and mix, knead in some flour {SECRET INGREDIENT ALERT!}.
And take small quantities, pushing into the silicone muffin cases to mold the little pots. We air-dried the pots over-night, however, for speed, you could pop them into the oven, if you were baking spuds, or home-made pizza anyway!
We DID try to make a batch of these seedling pots in conventional metal cake trays… FAIL!, they set solid, glued in… so yes, silicone rules!
First Published April 12 2013.
Updated September 2024 to include a link to a recent post from incredibusy about paper clay… here
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That is such a fabulous idea. Going to definitely try that.
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Bright inspiration on your part bright young ladies! I will try to make some seed starter pots for next spring as soon as I can. Thanks a lot.
thank you Jean-Louis! 🙂
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Great instructions.
Two things:
1: If you can make it as thin as possible, it will be less likely to break/distort/bulge in the baking process.
2: It’s actually quite easy to use a tin as opposed to silicon. Simply spray the surface with oil first.
thank you!
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Great. Thanks, I will try this. What happens when you water the seeds? do the pots go soggy?