Seed Bombs

Valentine's Day?  Your true love's birthday?  What can be more romantic than a seed bomb!?  Ok, let me explain what they are.  

Seeds bombs are essentially clay or compost (compost from our good pets in the corner of our kitchen that are all named Sydney) and wild flower seeds that I collected last fall mixed together.  Our pets = composting worms in our vermicompost bin as we are not allowed to have any fuzzy four-legged ones in our current third floor apartment.  

You can toss these seed balls on to a barren lot or square that has been trodden on or neglected, and the idea is that they will grow and be beautiful flower explosions.  Particularly true if you bombard such a neglected surface right before a long spring rain. The wildflowers I chose are ones that produce lots of seeds (sunflowers!), can survive heat and drought (tea roses) or are just lovely and easy to propagate (bachelor’s buttons, morning glory, blue flax, daylilies etc…). The compost was rolled in leftover cocoa shells (a great mulch that absorbs water) so they really do smell like chocolate.  

We'll see what comes up in the spring!