Red Clay Powder for Seed Balls and Seed Bombs (1000g)

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Because they are perennials, they really need to be in an area where they can grow and thrive over the course of many years. And a friendly reminder to make and use seed bombs responsibly— only add seeds for plants that are NATIVE to your area to avoid introducing invasive plants into your garden and neighborhood. It should be a balanced mix of sapric (smeary) and hemic (fibrous, but unrecognizably decomposed) materials, without much of any fibric (still recognizable) components. They're both into nature and will love making these, and hopefully watching them grow into beautiful flowers attracting wildlife into their gardens.

If you’ve chosen to keep different colored paper separated, pulse them in an isolated food processor session. If clay is scarce in their immediate vicinity, they may source from lakes, ponds, seasides, or even local streams. Slip is just water mixed with clay, it’s usually used to bond two clay pieces to one another, but for seed bombs, it’s sort of just acting as the thing that will bond everything together as it dries out. Avoid recycled clay that has glazes in it, especially for applications where seed balls will be near food-gardening sites. I’m using a white air dry clay because it’s easily obtainable but red clay powder is another great option.

Peat bogs take several thousand years to form, absorbing significant amounts of CO2 and providing a habitat for hundreds of different species of wildlife, they also has an important role in water management (they hold 20 times their weight in water)! The idea is that the ‘bombs’ can be lobbed over fences to abandoned land or down city gullies and grow into bee-attracting blooms or herbs.

It’s extremely easy to make seed bombs in bulk and you can get it done with very few ingredients regardless of which method you choose. I recommend air dry clay because it’s easily obtainable and I add my pressed flowers after the clay dries because some flowers can bleed color if you attach them while the clay is still drying. If you’re doing the same, make sure you use a glue that is biodegradable— You can make an easy homemade biodegradable glue by mixing equal parts flour or cornstarch and water. Today, you don’t have to worry about it like they did, but you’ll learn a lot by practicing good seed-saving techniques. This easy bee garden activity is a lot of fun and yet another simple way you can help save the bees.If you are adding decorative dried flower petals to the outside, you’ll attach them now to the side facing up by pressing them into the clay. I see that this is an old post, but seems people surfing might run into it and find the information helpful.