Red Clay Powder for Seed Balls and Seed Bombs (1000g)

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If the recycled paper pulp is too dry to form into balls, sprinkle bits of water in until it can be formed. Millie is making 3 types of seed balls – a simple version using clay only, a combination version that uses clay and fertiliser and version using clay from her own garden! If you use a good compost, you don’t really need to worry too much about the nutrients in your clay. The large purple flowers of Meadow cranesbill turn into pointed, bill-like seed pods that give the plant its common name.

It’s extremely easy to make seed bombs in bulk and you can get it done with very few ingredients regardless of which method you choose.My balls from this last batch started showing seedlings only two days after they were made and they weren’t even totally dried out yet… I must have bought some very eager seeds! It was too hard to really work like a dough, so I thought back to my elementary school days experimenting with clay and thought that it would work really well if I turned it into slip. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.

Keep a bowl of water at hand and add it to the mix in small amounts to bring the desired texture back. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. When the seed bomb is thrown into a suitable landscape, rain will cause the seeds to germinate and sprout inside the ball. Once all of your seed bombs are dry, you can plant them in indoor or outdoor pots, your yard, or in neglected patches of soil you’re allowed to access.

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If it’s a public space, talk to whoever’s managing the land to ensure your seed bombs won’t disrupt the existing ecosystem.When they get wet, the seeds are stimulated to grow and they will break the sphere apart as they push out, giving the seedlings a perfect start. red powdered clay in his case was the local clay- he lived in the semitropical climate of shikoku, where red clay is abundant.

If you are using the moist air dry clay, you would simply mix it with the compost and seeds at this point.

Millie is making some combination seed balls using Cosmos sulphureus (Orange cosmos) and Alyssum seeds. Also known as the Earth Dumping Method, gardeners use native clay to bind flower seeds into a seed ball which quickly adapts to the local environment.