Regular 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. For a more advanced idea of what seed […]
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A brief history of the seed ball
Since readers have asked, I thought I’d explain a bit more about seed balls (also known as “seed bombs,” among a multitude of other names). Seed balls, simply put, are a method for distributing seeds by encasing them in a mixture of clay and compost. This protects the seeds by preventing them from drying out […]
How to make seed balls
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