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I made a promise last saturday to get this posted before going to sleep....Which I did. Just forgot to crosspost it to both sites...Sorry about that. ....enjoy. rjs

Seedballs-101

Suggestion: read this through and think about what you want to plant this way before starting.

Basic Recipe
You will need seeds, compost or potting soil, clay, container (pot, bowl, bin), spray bottle and something like wooden spoon or chopsticks to stir with.
It starts with a ratio that works for most cases. 1:3:5
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Last night at the end of the day, about 8 pm, I took off my headphones and was about to put them up when I noticed something sticking out past the edge of the top band and turned the headphones so see a tiny little lizard perched on the top band. It must have been there, or somewhere on me, for hours. I took the headphones outside and tried to get it to walk off onto various vines and things, but no go. I gently picked it off the headphones and it promptly settled down onto my index finger, clos… Continue

Here is a list of the seeds placed in the seed bin used for seedball class. Many, although not all, are identified by common ame, and binomial genus-species names. I continue to work on making the names complete, especially since so many of you have heard me rant about identifying plants by common name alone. Not fussy, it's just that people have been made ill and killed by misunderstood common names. I will be grateful too any fellow permies who want to help with this. They and are invited to w… Continue