Anyone had any luck with seed bombs?

[megletthesecond]

Our estate (grotty ex council) is devoid of flowers and I'd like to pep the area up.

The pre-made seed bombs never came up last year so now I'm experimenting with surplus chunks of sunflower seeds in grapefruit sized balls of soil. I had some sunflowers self seed in my garden last year and the slugs never had a chance as they grew their prickles before the slugs appeared.

A friend of mine is an avid guerrilla gardener. She started off cultivating around the base of street trees, made friends with the local council tree people and persuaded them not to spray. Then spread her wings. She now has a team of people working with her, has transformed a high street, a community centre garden , several tube station entrances ..... she is not the sort of person you say no to!

Our beebombs were a waste, I think they probably needed more water than we realised.

Sometimes they can take a year or two to germinate. So don't write them off until this spring. They may still flower. 🌸

Nope I put them down and didnt bury them as per instructions on pack and the birds ate them. Nothings grown in the last two years.

I've been throwing seeds down each year and 3 years in, they finally started to take last year. I've also planted forget me nots and honesty in my front garden and they have self seeded opposite us.

We planted bulbs too.

I'm waiting for the council to take the land opposite us over so I can ask them to stop using weed killer everywhere.

Our bee bombs took over a year to materialise

I looked into it but apparently the percentage of seeds that will germinate is very low. The ground should ideally be raked and the seeds covered in a fine layer of soil.

I forgot to some back to this, sorry!

Thank you for the tips. Maybe lasts years will pop up in time. I'll keep on putting them down this year.

@jamesfailedmarshmallows there's a little patch behind my house that is ignored. I might dig a small bed into it. Baby steps.

@Icenii last summer I stopped a council chap spraying weedkiller along the path next to me as some of my poppies have self seeded along it. He was really nice and left them standing.