So you know that parking lot I'm always cleaning and bitching about? The one full of trash and needles and dog shit?
I promise those are seed bombs and not dog shit. LOL
This was my afternoon project today - I made 27 seed balls stuffed with flower seeds. They're all really old seeds, but hopefully since I stuffed so many of them in there, at least some will sprout - six packets of seeds in the bunch.
I used a heaping two hands full of compost, a smaller two hands full of local claytastic dirt, and some soaking wet newspaper, in addition to three packs of zinnia, one of forget-me-not, one of alyssum, and one of pansy seeds. Edit: oh yeah and I threw in a splash of poppy seeds too, since I was planting some in the balcony grove today! LOL
There's a trees of heaven-mushrooms-and-dog-shit area in between my building and the parking lot. I'mma seed bomb it once these are dry. :) Oh yes, there will be guerilla gardening.
Over the years, in addition to the tree leaves it gets, I've dumped plenty of old dirt from my pots over the side onto that area, and before I started a compost bucket, I tossed all my houseplant pruning there too, lol - and one poor tomato plant that was pulled off the ledge by the tree of heaven in the wind and snapped in half - so it's had kinda compost, plus all the dog shit as fertilizer ...I think it will work.
Maybe if it's covered in flowers people will at least not throw their trash all over it?
Maybe?
One can hope?
Either way, it will be prettier and better smelling than dog poop!
Here's a "before" from my Imbolc litterwalk. ;)
Hopefully this works - wish me luck! Have any of you ever seed bombed someplace before and had success? I specifically googled for best practices before I made them so they have a good chance. Let me know if seed bombing has worked for you, like, where you went back later and saw the result! I know that it is sometimes used successfully for tree seeds as well, according to the internet, and sometimes people said they didn't get flower seeds the year they threw them down, but the next year instead.
Seed and Steem on, fam!
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