fukuoka style seed balls for no till farming - Inspiration Farm
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- www.permies.com Brian Kerkvliet of Inspiration Farm in Bellingham, Washington shows how to make Fukuoka style seed balls. A mixture of clay, compost and seeds. The balls can be tossed into existing crops.
Some people use see balls (or larger "seed bombs") as a form of "guerilla gardening": toss the balls into areas that are desolate and could use some flowers/edibles.
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would be a very fun way to teach kids to sow and store seeds, definitely not a boring crafty project!
Native Americans made seed balls for planting corn and beans to keep birds from eating the seeds.
Mr Mananobu Fukuoka is against composting ..how come u using them?
No one shows the aftermath of "planting" these seeds. It will be good to see the results
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In most cities you'll find vacant lots, areas that are useless and ugly. This seedball technique is great to get any sized parcel back into shape with plants that provide free services - to name a few: reducing the urban heat island (UHI) effect, habitat and nutrition for insects and wildlife, land and air decontamination, reduction of stormwater damage, beauty in your neighborhood. Should I go on?
i dont know how it is in the US but definitly in the UK those vacant city lots actually have a high conservation value because they tend to be made of of quick spreading flowering plants and also whatever seeds can quickly establish, the advantage of that is you then get lots of structural diversity as well, coupled with it not being trampled by people means that it provides a haven for lots of insects and small mammals and therefore birds which would otherwise not have a place in cities :)
Yes you can! Good points!
Seed balls are also a massive time saver if you are planting a large area. Check out the video of Fukuoka planting the hillsides of Greece. He had a whole crew of people walking the hills with sacks of seed balls for days. Throwing them across the landscape by the handful.
Loved the comment about throwing them into a military preserve and flowers growing!!!
Garden forum on Facebook deleted a thread mentioning "bombing the man's property", seed ball = good, seed bomb = bad. Winter sowers you're safe now. ;) Go permies.
Use Premium cat litter (That includes bentonite) to save money if you don't have clay on hand!
I recommend adding some hot pepper to deter the slugs and other eaters.
Maybe some coffee grounds?
Grow clovee and alfalfa in the seed balls they will mitigate weeds and provide great green manure for growing stuff right after. As a bonus clover and alfalfa are great food and medicinal cover crops.
TIME TO SEED BOMB WITH THINGS PEOPLE EAT LIKE PARSLEY, BASIL, CABBAGE, CARROTS, APPLE SEEDS, BLUEBERRIES, WILLOW TREES THINGS THAT WILL HELP MANKIND SURVIVE DURING THE APOCALYPSE... SORRY FOR THE CAPS, MY KEYBOARD IS BROKEN.
@EKWisner probably falls a little shy of pushing seed into the soil - for the seed. But the not-tilling thing is a big perk.
can i use baseball clay from a field?
I love this! How come there isn't a "love" button when you really love a video? Thanks!
Make the seed bombs using clay powder and a concrete mixer by spraying water. You produce quality seed bombs to cover large areas to have a productive yield.
That's the first time I'm seeing how they're actually made. I'm going to find me some clay today (not easy around here), and have a go.
We're getting to the stage where we want to plant many different kinds of plants, from veggies to fruit bushes to trees, into our 4 hectare (ex) hay meadow. Would the seeds in seed balls have any chance in a place where the grass and other herbs shoot up pretty rapidly come spring?
Some clay has nylon fibres in it. Be careful I wouldn’t use that
What a great protest idea: Lobbing bombs of potential flowers!
thanx!! could you please expaind on what you used for the 'compost', and what people can use?
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Great little tutorial! I'm gonna try this maybe for some of my fall planting or definitely next spring. I wonder how well stuff comes up if there's still weeds there or if it's better to mulch then put them down.
Can I use diatomaceous Earth instead of clay powder
Love this video. Thanks. I have a tiny garden space and the ground is hard as a rock. Hoping for some volunteers from refuse I toss out there, but this would be a great way to work in the future presuming I have more garden space.
heavy mulching and a broadfork will fix the hard soil after a few years.
Cover crops!
I have some bentonite clay??
Can I use cat litter which is made of quartz sand and lime?
Make sure they are all organic non gmo untreated seeds everyone
BRILLIANT!
Seems to me the seeds will start to germinate once they get wet.
Q: How is germination prevented?
You dehydrate them so you can store them for later use. Probably use the lowest setting on your dehydrator? Or dry in the sun.
Thank you for the fun video. very informative
(6:45) - Any type of clay can be used.
thanks !
But i have one doubt so plis clarify it. So after seeds r enclosed in clay pellets,what happens wen they germinate.wont it b overcrowding of plants?? Becos more than one seeds are enclosed in one pallets or balls...
i gotta try this!!! thanks for sharing
farmer Bob I need a bit before I can take to my classroom for the science Angela Lakes 3401
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Fascinating! So does the seed ball gives the seeds the same 'advantage' as a hole or fresh-tilled field, but without digging? Or is it more a case of just saving time and convenience for the sower?
You dry it right away. Seeds need to be wet for some time, if you dry it right away you prevent germination-simple.
@JamesTyreeII What a good ida, and was just thinking how to stop them from being eaten.
very intresting gotta try this thanx 4 the info keep lobbing those hippie grenades
Does bamboo grow if you make seed bombs out of it
Awesome tutorial, a large scale mix would be very interesting to see also.
What did you use for clay?
i don't understand the point of this? Other than to demonstrate that even hippys like to imagine having their very own arsenal of ordinance with which to re mold the planet according to their own vision..
This is a planting technique used pretty much, and by people other than "guerilla gardeners".
I have been waiting for this video.
Great info. Thanks Paul!
I really like all the io this guy has been able to share
You made my day with that flower bomb remark haha! i'm tempted
That’s butterflies
Awesome video. Thanks!
Im interested . ¿is this method really working?? could be great
The fukuoka method has been known to work really well globally, actually. (it could also be especially appealing to the lazy cause the method is largely based on minimal human interference beyond the seed balls.)
+Arkaitz If you believe very strongly, YES. Or get a University book about crop seeding and read it if you are not an alphabet person. No one asks for the pH changes with a field full of this clay. Every dreamer, philosopher, believer or sick minded people consider the nature and universe painted with personal colours out of any scientific consideration. When this is not imposed to others as "THE TRUTH", I don't see why they should not play their game?
What does this "dry mix" consist of?
Do you get many issues with disease passing on between seasons of crops? Because if you're growing the same crop year after year without tillage you get more stem based diseases on crop residues? Or would you only use it as a way to keep cover crops in the land?
Hardy varieties used in no-till techniques are pretty resistant to stem-diseases. Planting seeds on the ground rather than in the ground adds to that. According to Bonfils.
amorfini498 Are you daft? They're talking about Fukuoka-style natural farming. Fukuoka's grain fields were constant clover groundcover and grew rice every summer and barley every winter.
In his orchards he established semi-wild self-seeding vegetables that grew in the same area for decades.
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wow what a tips ! tyvm
good simple method
Erica had a good question - how does being encased in clay help the seed? Aside from preventing consumption by birds or insects...
It also give it a great growing medium as it germinates. This way it can just be thrown onto the surface of the soil without needing to be buried
Preventing consumption goes a long way towards producing a plant.
The clay holds the balls together until there's enough rain/water at that time they will absorb the water and the clay will 'dissolve' whilst providing a sticky medium to prevent to seeds blowing away or drying out.
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I just don't see the point. Seeds are non perishable. Why not just put the seeds down?
Matthew Niedbala Depending on the seed type, an animal may come along and enjoy a nice snack. A good seed ball should cover the seed completely to protect it from animals.
Birds and other critters will eat the seeds if they're not protected by the clay until they sprout.
The clay holds moisture for the seeds. Dry seeds laid on the ground don't have a chance. This method is for large areas where you can throw it and cover acres without killing yourself.
We don't want this info to get in the wrong hands, some people would be growing reefer everywhere! So, remember, don't use this to grow weed, pot, marijuana.
too late
What type of clay?
What a great idea, thanks!
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Thanks!
ahahaahaha ,) military reserve
yea .... force that laughter out
If you've never been on a military reserve,
they are like wildlife reserves with tank track ruts.
(frogs just love ruts)
what if you used like a tarp as you said and rolled it all into a giant rod and cut that into like evenly sized hokey pucks.