How to make seed balls
Spread home-made seed balls with valuable wild flowers to create new feeding grounds for insects. Especially in the city, you can support bees and butterflies this way.
Materials
- 1 bowl
- 1 tablespoon (tbsp)
- Garden soil
- Clay powder (available at the drugstore)
- Native seed mix (see below for a list of suitable plant species)
- Empty egg carton
Instructions
- Mix 2 tbsp garden soil with 1 tbsp clay flour.
- Add 1 tbsp seed mix.
- Add 2 tablespoons of water.
- Mix everything well.
- Form four seed balls. Place them in the empty egg carton to dry for approx. 3 days.
- Give the seed balls as gifts or distribute them yourself in spring, e.g. in your garden.
Only use the seed balls where you have permission to do so. Please do not set them out in private gardens, nature reserves or on agricultural land.
Suitable plant species
- Buphthalmum salicifolium
- Calendula arvensis
- Centaurea cyanus
- Centaurea jacea
- Centaurea scabiosa
- Daucus carota
- Dianthus carthusianorum
- Knautia arvensis
- Leucanthemum vulgare
- Lotus corniculatus
- Malva alcea
- Onobrychis viciifolia
- Origanum vulgare
- Papaver rhoeas
- Salvia pratensis
- Silene dioica
- Silene floscuculi
- Silene noctiflora
- Tragopogon pratensis