I recently became interested in Guerilla Gardening, which is using dilapidated or unused land to garden on. Seed balls can be used to inconspicuously beautify an area.
Heavy Petal has a great guide on making them.
Here’s the recipe:
5 parts dry red clay*
3 parts dry organic compost
1 part seed**
1 – 2 parts water
They are rolled into balls and are dried in a place with good ventilation. To use them, toss a handful on bare ground. The clay will protect them from birds or being stepped on and will fertilize them once they germinate.
Heavy Petal also recommends using edible, medicinal, and drought tolerant plants.
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I saw that! How awesome. I know just the place to toss some coreopsis seedballs. Those things will grow anywhere.
This is a cool idea.
If you wanted to you could come back and sprinkle around some dry fertilizer if needed.
I’m going to start scouting around for some good places to this in the spring.
What a useful post and link. Now we can make our own pelleted seed, and what a fantastic gift idea. Thanks much!
The Garden State Parkway in NJ has a grassy median that separates the Northbound and Southbound traffic. Perfect spot for some tomato plants.
I keep planning to do this, and I think now is the time. Thank you for the reminder, we have some marshy spots by the mall that need some cardinal flower, methinks.
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