Make Your Own Seedball Kit - Flowers for Butterflies
Embrace the joy of gardening and cultivate a love for nature with this Make Your Own Seedball Kit!...Embrace the joy of gardening and cultivate a love for nature with this Make Your Own Seedball Kit! This super-fun, slightly messy (but totally rewarding!) activity is perfect for adults and kids of all ages. It makes a great gift for eco-conscious and nature loving families too. Once rolled, the seed balls are best scattered in the Autumn, followed by Spring (but anytime except winter is fine). What's Inside this butterfly friendly Seedball-Making Kit? 3 Paper Pouches: Packed with everything you need to create 50-60 wildflower seed balls! Butterfly Feast: A pouch of vibrant wildflower seeds (forget me not, cornflower, yarrow, purple loosestrife, red campion, musk mallow) attracts butterflies and creates a colourful wildflower haven. Natural Binder: A pouch of red powdered clay acts as a natural binder for the seed balls, making them easy to toss and grow. Peat-Free Power: A pouch of peat-free compost provides the perfect organic base for your seed balls to flourish. Easy-to-Follow Guide: Clear instructions make seedball creation a breeze, empowering young eco-warriors to take charge and help nature bloom! More Than Just a Craft Activity: Outdoor Fun: Ditch the screens and embrace the joys of outdoor play with a hands-on activity that gets kids excited about nature. Sustainable Practices: Made with eco-friendly materials and peat-free compost, this kit promotes responsible planting. Perfect for All Ages: This engaging activity is fun for kids and adults alike, fostering teamwork, creativity, and environmental awareness. Wildflower Wonder: Create a beautiful wildflower spectacle that attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators to your garden, balcony, or local green space. Watch imagination blossom and their love for the environment grow with our Make Your Own Seedball Kit! Get ready to create a butterfly friendly wildflower explosion! An all-in-one kit to make your own seed balls! It’s super fun, pretty messy and a brilliant activity for all ages! Each kit includes 3 paper pouches, 1 x garden meadow seeds, 1 x clay powder and 1 x peat-free compost. When mixed together with water, it will create enough mix for 40-60 balls (size depending).Also included is an instruction sheet giving full details of how to make the balls. Wildflowers included are Common Toadflax, Cornflower, Cowslip, Meadow Cranesbill, Musk Mallow, Oxeye Daisy and Red Campion. Features: No need to dig! As the wildflower seeds are encased in clayand peat-free compost, they are essentially already “planted”. Simply scatter onto bare soil or compost (avoid scattering on grass) on a garden bed or in a pot, leaving at least 10cm betweeneach ball. The outer clay helps to prevent birds and insects from eating the seeds, keeping the seeds nicely protected andensuring your bee and butterfly friendly wildflower garden has every chance of growing success With water and enough sun and warmth, the wildflower seeds inside the ball will start to germinate and little shoots will begin to appear from the ball. This process can take 4-6 weeks from scattering depending on the frequency of rainfall. It can be speeded up by watering the seed balls once or twice on dry days. We add chilli powder to our Seedball recipe to help deter slugs and snails from eating the young shoots Slowly the ball will disperse and become less visible, leaving aill patch of young plants which w continue to grow into a beautiful wildflower garden. Each type of wildflower takes a different length of time to come into flower – some will flower in the first year and others will flower in the following year. Once in flower they will provide important habitat and food for an abundance of garden wildlife Wildflowers are naturally slow to germinate and so especially suceptable to predation. In helping to protect them by growning from seed balls, the chance of successful germination and early growth is maximised Best scattered in the Spring and Autumn, leave at least 10cm between each ball. Seeds sown in the Spring may not flower until the following year Seed balls are easy to use, with no need to be a gardening expert at all. As well as being fun to use yourself, they make for great gifts for all who love the outdoors, bees, gardening and sustainable, British-made gifts Made in London at our small factory, and we only ever use UK grown seed that is native or naturally established, and appears on the RHS 'Plants for Pollinators' list Seedball is a mulitple award winning company founded over 10 years ago by two conservation scientists who wanted to make it easier for everyone to grow native wildflowers in their outdoor spaces. Many bee and butterfly species are in decline (along with other garden wildlife) and they need our help Specifications: Dimensions: H:14.5 x W:20.0 x D:3.5 cm Weight: 0.1 kg Colour: Multi Guarantee:1 year Model Number: MYO-GM
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