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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How To Make Seed Bombs For Almost $0

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

If you've got a wild streak like me, consider making seed bombs and beautifying all of those empty lots and easements in your neighborhood! Learn More: How to Make Seed Bombs For Nearly $0 Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Epic Gardening

0:04.5

podcast. Today we're talking about how to make seed bombs. Yes, seed

0:10.0

bombs. So if you are someone who walks around in your urban environment like me and

0:16.4

sees a bunch of wasted space, a bunch of empty lots that just aren't being built on, nothing's happening there, they're just sort of being completely wasted.

0:26.6

Well, then you might be a guerrilla gardener at heart, and I don't mean guerrilla, the animal. I mean gorilla like guerrilla warfare.

0:35.0

So seed bombs. What are they? Why do we care about them? How do we make them? What's the point?

0:42.0

Well, seed bombs will help you do a few things. They will help

0:45.7

you garden in hard to reach areas. They will help you beautify a barren lot with a floral

0:51.0

explosion. They will help you garden in an area that's otherwise

0:53.9

restricted. They will help you start seeds in a creative and organized way in your own

0:58.9

garden if you want to. So there are a lot of different ways to make your own

1:01.5

seed bombs. I'm going to go over one of the simplest and easiest methods.

1:05.0

This is the classic clay seed bomb. Very easy to make in bulk and you can get it done with only four ingredients.

1:12.0

You can of course find this guide on my website. get it done with only four ingredients.

1:13.0

You can of course find this guide on my website

1:15.4

at epic gardening.com slash how to make seed bombs.

1:19.2

Just put a dash in between all those words.

1:21.0

A little annoying, you can always just go to the site and search for it, or look in the podcast description as well.

1:25.0

So the first thing you're going to need to do is gather your materials.

1:29.0

Very simple. What do we need? We need clay. I like to use Crayola air dry clay. You need water, just tap water is fine. You need some kind of seeds. Make

1:38.8

sure that you use seeds that are native to your area. The very last thing you're going to want to do is bomb your

1:44.4

native area with seeds that would end up being invasive. That would be a disaster.

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