Make 4 lbs of seed balls - PEP BB foraging.sand.seedball

Bentonite is used for ponds, so I can’t imagine it wouldn’t work for seed balls. I use the wood pellets too, for cat litter. Much cheaper and can compost or burn. Could probably even be used as mulch around trees, but my dogs find them way too interesting! 🙄

I led the seed ball workshop at the PTJ and made 4 lbs of seed balls of my own. We found that a mix of 3 lbs of soaked clay, 1 lb of soaked aged wild horse manure (collected last year at Wild Horse Springs so it’s organic) and 1 lb of saw dust made a good consistency for rolling seed balls. We used aged manure and sawdust as a form of compost (greens and browns).

I included the following seeds:
Perennials -
Apples
Sepp Grain
White Dutch clover
Cherries
Annuals -
Buckwheat
Lambs quarters
turnips

I set the large seed balls in the sun to dry.

Here is my submission for the Foraging - Sand - Make four pounds of Seed Balls BB.

To document the completion of the BB, I have provided:
 - A picture of the seeds in your mixing container
 - A picture of the finished balls on a scale showing the weight
 - A listing of the seeds you used

My Seed Bombs contain:
             o apples (perennial)
             o black locust (perennial)
             o sepp grain
             o turnip
             o cherry (perennial)
             o white dutch clover (perennial)      
             o Abbey buckwheat
             o lambsquarters

Made seed balls at PTJ 2021! I even used processed willow candy as the manure part.

Seeds included:
Apple (off to the upper right side of mixing trough in pic because I hand pressed them into each ball)
Buckwheat
Sepp grain seeds
Cherry
Black locust
White Dutch clover

First 2 pics are for the bb

Made about 8 pounds of seed balls! 80% clay, 10% sand, 10% sawdust.

Added the following seeds:
Cherry
Apple
Black locust
Lambsquarters
Turnips
Buckwheat
White Dutch clover

So here's my submission for the seedball badge. I used "willow candy" as my maure and straw needs and then mixed with clay.

I made 4 pounds of seed balls!

Here are the species I included:

Buckwheat
White Dutch Clover
Alfalfa
Common Vetch
Red Kuri Squash
Sepp Holzer Grain
Field Mint
Cherry

This evening I made 2lbs of seed balls! I was hoping to make 4lbs but I ran out of clay. I'll have to dig some more up at some point and finish off this BB...

The seeds I included are listed below. Those in bold are perennial.

- Quince
- Crab Apple
- Wild Cherry (P. avium
- Ragged Robin
- Aquilegia
- Dandelion
- Yellow Rattle
- Common Vetch
- Meadow Cranesbill
- Welsh Poppy
- Chinese Rose (R. rugosa)

I used 5% sawdust, 10% compost, 5% perlite and 80% clay for my mixture (by weight, roughly). The sawdust was added to help keep the balls dry, the compost to add fertility, the perlite to help the seed ball break down by wicking moisture - and the purpose of the clay is obvious.

I'll add another reply and link back to this one when I manage to finish off the requirements!

Literally genius.