http://www.craftster.org/blog/green-thumb-thursday-seed-bombs/ Rock is dead. Long live paper and scissors! Wed, 15 May 2013 23:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.craftster.org/blog/green-thumb-thursday-seed-bombs/comment-page-1/#comment-667287 thanate Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:44:25 +0000 http://www.craftster.org/blog/?p=17060#comment-667287 I'd love to like this idea, but please do NOT do this with just any old packet of flower seeds! The wild places of the world are already way too full of invasive plants that originally came from some other continent as garden ornamentals, and they're crowding out the plants that feed butterfly caterpillars and your other native insects, which in turn are what the songbirds need to feed their babies. If what you want is to make your surroundings more beautiful, try doing it by putting back some of the ecosystem that belongs there, not tossing around packets of cheap seeds that might be from anywhere! :( I’d love to like this idea, but please do NOT do this with just any old packet of flower seeds! The wild places of the world are already way too full of invasive plants that originally came from some other continent as garden ornamentals, and they’re crowding out the plants that feed butterfly caterpillars and your other native insects, which in turn are what the songbirds need to feed their babies. If what you want is to make your surroundings more beautiful, try doing it by putting back some of the ecosystem that belongs there, not tossing around packets of cheap seeds that might be from anywhere!

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