SEED BOMBS!
Our ever eager Garden Facilitator has invested in a subscription to "NZ Gardener" this year, for a little extra gardening confidence.
Just in time the July edition arrived in the mail box and the seed was sown to make "Seed balls" or "Seed bombs"...with the bucket full of "Wild Warrior Seeds" we had collected in late summer.
A call was made for some clay for a mixing medium to a fellow Geologist, and the local Mining Company kindly organised a bag of Bentonite clay (THANK YOU!).
Bentonite clay is a special swelling clay that expands dramatically when water is added, it is normally used to patch up holes down exploration drill holes...perfect for our needs!
Seed Bomb/Seed Balls Recipe
We used:
6 parts clay
2 parts "Warrior Wild seeds mix"
1 part blood & bone
2 parts potting mix
We then gradually added water, mixing all the time, until we had a nice tacky texture...
...then the fun started!
Shaping handfuls of mixture into seed bombs!
Many mucky hands make light work!
Every last smudge of seed mixture was fashioned into a "seed Bomb"!
Great effort Garden Warriors, we now have about 100 hot coloured "Seed Bombs" ready to explode a riotous mixture of calendula, Marigold, Viola, Sweet pea and Viscaria!
We shall have our "Seed Bombs" on sale at our Northern Lights evening on Wednesday for $1 each. All you have to do is literally throw your seed bomb at the garden in spring and wait for your delayed explosion of colour!
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