How to Make Seed Bombs

Making seed bombs is a fantastic family activity and a great way to promote biodiversity in your gardens. Learn how you can make them at home by reading on.

Getting Started

What you’ll need for making your seed bombs:

• Paper (Can be old newspaper)
• Seeds (e.g vegetable seeds or wildflower seed mix)
• Bowl/bucket
• Blender or food processor
• Strainer or some thin fabric
• Paper shredder (OPTIONAL)
• Mould/Cookie cutter (OPTIONAL)

Get some old scrap paper and/or newspaper and rip the paper up into pieces. The smaller the better or use a shredder if you have one available. 

Put the ripped paper into a box or bowl and pour some water into it, enough to cover the paper to soak. Leave it as long as possible, at least overnight is best

Time to blend your soaked paper! I recommend using an old blender if possible here. Put the paper into the blender and add some more water. Blend a bit at a time. Eventually you will end up with a mushy pulp.

Place the pulp into a strainer or fabric (I use an old tea towel) and squeeze most of the water out but not too much as you still want it fairly wet and mushy. 

Transfer the pulp into a bowl then add your seeds and give it a good mix.

Take out some of the mixture and form a ball or pancake shape whilst squeezing the remaining water out. At this point you could put them into a mould or cookie cutter. A top tip is to use a sponge to help get any remaining moisture out.

Finally, Pop them out and let them fully dry until they completely harden. 

Now your seed bombs are ready for the garden. Thank you for following along.

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