Seed Bombs

The house people can’t agree on what to do with the front yard. Their tastes in what a yard or garden looks like are completely different from each other. One wants a field of ever-blooming flowers and the other wants hardscaping and plants that don’t need to be taken care of.

Last fall the yard had been taken over by Bermuda grass from the neighbor’s yard and it was getting ugly. I decided to take it upon myself (and earn my keep) by diggining up the yard, putting down a layer of cardboard, and bringing in new compost/soil to lay over top of it. I figured it would be six months until the house people could figure out what to actually do with it, and that would be about the time the yard would be ready to be planted.

It’s been a little more than six months and the talks have stalled. So I decided to do a little bit of guerilla gardening and have been throwing random seeds into the yard. Granted, a lot of these will get carried away by critters and birds, but I thought if I threw enough of them in the yard, then in a few weeks, or a couple of months, there would be some pretty posies growing out there.

Then as I was walking around the neighborhood, I thought about all the people who don’t seem to care about their yards. Hmmm.Then I thought about the story of Johnny Appleseed ….

This morning I was perusing Huffington Post and found this link to a TreeHugger post on SeedBombs.  Which then led me to google to see if I could find a press release on SeedBombs. Which I didn’t find. But then I found a post over on How Stuff Works that included this vid from YouTube on how to make a seed bomb:

Which actually seems like a better idea than to just throw the seeds around like I’ve been doing.

I think gardening should become the national pastime. I think if people got into the beauty of it, they would see as more of a part of life, like cooking, or cleaning house, than a chore. Don’t you?