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Seedball progress

July 27, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

seedballs4.jpgRegular Heavy Petal readers know that I’m really into seed balls, those muddy little balls of floral love.

The first sowing I did this year was disturbed by construction, so I recently launched a second attack. The teeny results are beginning to show themselves in these photos.

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For a more advanced idea of what seed balls can do, I point you toward one of the Vancouver GGG’s (that’s Guerrilla Gardening Group’s) seed bomb projects, a median in a busy on-ramp:

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There was barely 2″ (5cm) in which to “plant” the seedballs, and yet, what lovely results!

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The last two photos are borrowed from Al. You can see more of his GGG photos here.

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Filed Under: Resistance is fertile Tagged With: guerilla gardening, masanobu fukuoka, seed ball, seed balls, seed bomb, seed bombs, seedball, seedballs, seedbomb

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  1. adekun says

    August 13, 2007 at 1:31 am

    Nice what GGG are doing. You might want a read of this – the local councils take over in the UK – 1984 Takes On Guerrilla Gardening Granny

  2. Dawn says

    August 25, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Guerilla Gardening rocks! I love seeing how people accomplish this all over the world. Helping nature one seedball at a time. Well done! :-)

    Dawn

  3. jim bones says

    February 9, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Great job. Thank you so much for continuing the work. The SeedBall Video is on youtube at:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWyduWsoy8o&feature=channel_page

    The Masanobu Fukuoka seed ball video (in Japanese) is at:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-bwW8PWI0

  4. Anthony says

    March 14, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Hi ,
    Do you have any idea on how to contact Jim Bones by any chance ?
    I work as a restoration ecologist for a non-profit in California and would love to contact him to retrieve info from seedballs.com
    Thanks a lot.
    “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”, Antoine de St Exupery.

  5. Leigh says

    February 12, 2014 at 5:59 am

    Yeah but that’s supremely bad for the concrete and the city will lose money having to replace and repair the sidewalks. I know you want to help the environment, but you gotta think ahead a bit.

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