Civil disobedience: Make your own seed bomb

2008
 

 

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Make your own seed bomb
Richard Reynolds
2008

 

 

Richard Reynolds: I’m gonna show you the domestic production of seed bombs. The ingredients you need are: clay, compost, and a wildflower seed mix. And we are gonna top them out now with a few sunflower seeds. So, the ratio is of five cups of clay, to one pot of compost, and one pot of seeds. Then, in a mixing bowl, mix the seeds and the compost and stir that so around. And at this point, you add the clay nice and slowly. It’s fine and dusty clay and this is what’s gonna bind it all together and here the domestic seed bomb manufacturer needs to be very skilled to avoid it becoming a sludgy and unmanageable mess. So, you just add the water drip by drip. I’m using little mini watering attachments to an old bottle. Let’s just give that a good stir and see how bound together it is. Now, we are ready to press it together by hand. Getting nice and rocky. And knead it into a ball. We are binding this together because when you chuck the bomb, it needs to survive the impact of landing on the ground. The seeds need to be surrounded by the clay and the compost and then slowly be broken down by the sun and water, which would let in the air and then to germinate. One little seed bomb ready to wreak havoc on the urban wasteland. So, the seed bombs now need to dry in the sunshine to harden off, … a little tray like this works perfectly on a sunny windowsill.

 

It’s a quick sharp short shot in the landscape and you’re away…