seed bombs, everybody's doing it

      Would you believe that where my darling Thor and his fires have burned around the lake, grasses are now growing? That took about a week is all. Call me impressed. So while at our local home store the other day, I was inspired by the seed packets at the door to make me some seed bombs. I don't know where I heard of them or what they were exactly, just that I wanted to make some and spread them around the banks of the lake where the new grass can be found. It's a dirt ball of seeds was all I knew.
     I chose several packets of quick growers and native plants: poppies, sunflowers, bachelor buttons, purple coneflowers, larkspur, blak-eyed susans, and hollyhocks. Then I thought it might be a good idea to add some oscmocote, my preferred brand of slow release fertilizer. You mix it with some mud and make balls with the seeds. I wanted them to be pretty, so I thought it would be cool to use ice cube trays as molds for drying. Ok, time to make a mess!
      Just to be sure I wasn't missing any key ingredients, I did some online searching. Apparently I am not alone in this brilliant idea! The trend started with some hippies who wanted to plant flowers in vacant city lots and such. They would ride by on their bikes and throw seed bombs over fences. I love it! One lady wore stillettos on her bike rides to plant the seed bombs. She used her heel to make a hole for the wee mudball.
    I was looking for recipes and most included red clay powder and compost of some kind. Instead of compost, I am using mud from the lake, it has organic matter. You add enough water to make it doughy, not too sticky.  I was also going to mix in just a bit of plaster of paris to make the balls hold their shape for "planting." These along with my seeds and fertilizer should be a rousing success in a couple months or so, you know, about the time we sell the house...