Seed bombs: Make the world greener while forcing your philosophy on others
- July 3rd, 2008
- 8 Comments
Are you a hippie? Want to force people to look at flowers? Make some seed bombs. These tiny little bomblets contain clay and seeds and you basically drop them on the ground and they germinate, spread flowers and good cheer all over the abandoned brownfields near the river.
Here’s the recipe:
5 parts dry red clay*
3 parts dry organic compost
1 part seed**
1 - 2 parts waterWe used a 16oz. plastic cup as a measure, which made enough for approximately 300 seedballs. After mixing together all the dry ingredients, we added enough water to form a mix that held together without crumbling but wasn’t so wet that it wouldn’t roll into balls. Pinching off small bits of the lovely mud, we rolled penny-sized balls and set them in trays. They will sit on my windowsill for three or four days until completely dry.
Get rollin’, people. Mother Earth needs us.
Johnal (Who am I?)
1 month ago
odd… I suddenly have a craving for Cocoa Puffs…
whiskey (Who am I?)
1 month ago
I was about to say the same thing…
Can we get some DIYers to help us design a rotating bucket? (Because I’m not too sure on how green this process would be if we used a cement mixer)… place the dry stuff there and while tumbling use a spray to make the greenbombs!!! You could very well make them by the thousands this way!
Paula (Who am I?)
1 month ago
thank you for the recepy, I have been collecting seeds from wild plants, especally in autum you can just pick them easily.
Here in Cologne we have a few places which are called “Brache”, they are left without care so they became nice wild oecosystems with native plants.
Now I know how to spread them seeds around without beeing picked by birds ore moved away from the wind. I would like to open a list of wellworking seeds and of course pics to see the results.
Very nice are the seeds of common flax or linseed (Linum usitatissimum) They come as nice blue flowers and as far as I know will multipy next the year.
guten Tag
Paula
Uncle B (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Cut a small hole in your pocket,close it with a bow tied string, walk slowly among some dog walkers, pull the string to freak them out! Daisies are nice this time of year, but carrots are fun too!
Pseudo (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Come on hippies, make and spread “bombs;” let’s see how long you enjoy your freedom.
Barney Frank (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Can’t wait till all you flower children die off and take your failed socialistic views with you.
I be sure to drop some seed bombs on your graves (after my dog pisses on you first).
julie (Who am I?)
4 weeks ago
isnt it amazing how flowers just PISS OFF some people?
Amazing, and _quite_ amusing.
And yes, please, seed bombs on my grave is a great idea. Hope you’ll have to wait a while to do so, but what a nice thought. And since I’ll be very dead, it wont matter at all to me where your dog pisses.
What a silly person.
Godless (Who am I?)
3 weeks ago
Make “weed bombs” OVERGROW the world!!!