Each year at Club Wild we plant flowers so that we can all enjoy the beautiful colours but also to give all our small winged friends a helping hand. Flowers attract many kinds of insects, bees and hoverflies working hard and pollinating our crops, butterflies, ladybirds and many others.
Flowers that are rich in nectar and pollen provide the most food and wildflowers are great as they usually have simple, single flowers which make it easy for the insects to get to the pollen and nectar.
One of the most fun ways of sowing wildflower seeds is making seed bombs. Here is our Club Wild Seed Bomb Recipe…
• Wild flower seed mix
• Peat-free compost
• Water
• Powdered clay (from craft shops or garden
centre’s, or use clay soil)
• Mixing bucket
In the bucket we mix together 1 cup of seeds together with 5 chips of compost and 2-3 cups of clay powder.
Slowing mix in the water until everything sticks together, then will the mixture into firm balls.
Then the fun bit! Plant by throwing your see bombs at bare parts of soil.
We threw some into our wildflower patch in the school cat park and also found some huge patches of bare ground where all the building work has been taken place around around the school. We can’t wait to see beautiful the pinks, purples, blues, oranges and yellows of the wild flowers growing and all the happy insects enjoying them too.
