Seed bombs or nendo dango are a method that has been used for many centuries to sow in hard-to-reach areas or in dry, hard-to-dig soil. Although this seems to be a new method, it is not, because some populations of North American Indians already used it in antiquity. Well, the seed bomb is a very easy method to do and in this article we are going to show you how.
How to make seed bombs
Seed multiplication by this technique has been used for many years because as we said it has the advantage of giving the seed we want to germinate the necessary environment for it to germinate in almost any environment. grounds or circumstances.
Whether planted in an abandoned lot in town or on recently burned ground, it has a better chance of germinating than a single seed. Fukuoka, a Japanese farmer, has reinvented and redesigned this “nendo dango” technique, this ancestral idea of making seed bombs with clay, but in addition to seeing this method, we are also going to make it even simpler, we will use newspaper with identical results.
Seed bombs with planting paper
We will start first with this new method of seed bombs with paper or paper with seeds to plant.
MATERIALS:
The materials we will need are very simple and basic to obtain, so we can carry out this activity almost immediately.
- Newspapers (The inks no longer contain heavy metals and are safe to use).
- Substrate (soil) or compost, and even earthworm humus.
- Seeds (ideally seeds nativebut any seed that germinates easily will be perfect).
- Optionally, paper towels.
As for the seeds, I put autochthonous, because the ideal is to propagate the local flora of eachespecially if we are going to do it in vacant lots either burned areas. If we also want it as green manure In our garden, the ideal would be to use legumes to help us fix nitrogen in the soil and enrich it
But really, any seed that doesn’t have much trouble germinating is ideal, you can even make a remix of seeds, which don’t have to be just vegetables, flower seeds that are sown on their own every year would be great, because with this we also get attract pollinators.
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I leave you all the steps in the video, you will see how simple it is and as you can see in the photo above, it is a total success.
This is the paper seed bomb I threw at the end of the video and in 6 days I had it on the other side of the garden already sprouted. Imagine making all these seed bombs and dropping them on abandoned land in our cities or in burnt areas. Just by imagining it, I see everything green and with flowers and I feel happy!
Seed bombs with clay or nendo dango
As we said at the beginning, it was the Japanese farmer and biologist Masanobu Fukuoka who took over this nendo dango custom, renaming it the Fukuoka method or natural agriculture. The main advantage of this technique is that no tillage is required, which saves us time and effort.
Materials:
- red clay
- earth or vscompost
- Seeds
- Water
The technique
- We mix 10 parts of earth with 1 part of clay. For example 10 pots of earth and 1 clay).
- Gradually add water as we knead with our hands until a malleable dough remains.
- Roll out the dough and add the seeds evenly over the entire surface.
- The whole is mixed again and we make small balls the size of a golf ball.
- We let them dry in a cool place out of direct sunlight.
- And they are ready!! We just throw them where we want them to germinate.
Clay plays an important role in this seed bomb technique, because from the first rains it retains water and in a short time the seeds begin to germinate. Also, the earth will protect them from birds that might eat them.
We can use the seed bombs both to plant in an area of the garden that is difficult to dig or to repopulate areas with native species. But as with paper seed bombs, if you live in the city, you can try fields or flowerbeds that never seem to grow at all.
Remember that seeds that are not typical of the region should not be planted in natural environments, as they can alter the balance of the ecosystem.
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