How To Make Wildflower Seed Bombs With Air Dry Clay
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This step by step tutorial shows you how to make homemade wildflower seed bombs with air dry clay and a little bit of dirt. Making seed bombs is a quick and simple craft, and a great way to garden with your kids!
Add seeds, clay, soil, and water to the mixing bowl and mix with your hands.
Continue mixing, breaking up clumps of clay and dirt, until the mixture has a consistency similar to cookie dough. If it's too dry, add a little more water. If it's too wet or sticky, add a little more soil.
Roll mixture into 1" balls and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Let dry overnight or until completely dry (may take up to 2 days depending on humidity.)
How To Use Flower Seed Bombs
Toss a dried seed bomb into any patch of dirt or grass, and just wait! The morning dew and eventual rains will "melt" the seed bomb and water the seeds, and then they will start to grow on their own.
Notes
The seed packets pictured in this tutorial contain 2.4 grams of seeds, which is about 1/2 teaspoon of seeds, and each of those packets is meant to plant about 30 square feet.I'm assuming each homemade seed bomb is about 1 square foot worth of planting power in terms of how far the seeds might be able to spread from a single seed bomb. So this recipes is basically doubling the seeds per square foot that the packaging suggests: 1 packet (2.4g or 1/2 teaspoon) makes about 15 seed bombs, 15 seed bombs will plant about 15 square feet.Feel free to use more or less; the exact amount of seeds is not really important as long as there are enough seeds per seed bomb that even if some of them don't germinate, others will have a chance.
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