This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

June 7, 2025 at 4:42 AM

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

— Oliver (@oliver48.bsky.social) 2025-06-07T08:42:22.065Z

[crim son]

1. I love this!

The roots will start to break down the pavement over time but the grass is doing that anyway. Why not marigolds?

[speak easy]

26. French Marigolds (Tagetes patula) are annuals.

[peacebuzzard]

2. gorgeous, and thank you

for posting directly here rather than a link to bluesky or twitter or X or someplace else.
I usually just close a window if I have to click on a link.
My world has enough spam as it is.
lovely post.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Uh, it is a link to Bluesky. And good morning. NT

[SARose]

3. Oh how cool!

It’s the bees’ knees!

😉

[samnsara]

5. this made me tear up! Its so beautiful...

[fargone]

6. God Bless the Grass by Malvina Renolds

Reynolds is most famous for Little Boxes.

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[Botany]

7. Nice

[FakeNoose]

8. It's a nice idea as long as regular rains come to nourish the flowers

I'm sure it would work in Pittsburgh, where we have rainy months in the spring and early summer. BUT we also have deer that would come along and munch like it's a free salad bar every night.

[niyad]

9. So the deer get fed, the soil stays in place, the birds and bees are happy,

and people get to enjoy a little beauty. All for a handful of seeds. Lovely.

[ChazInAz]

13. Zackly!

Everything is transitory, including beauty.
Let the world enjoy it while it can!

[KPN]

19. A side-benefit! Feeding the deer.

[MyOwnPeace]

21. Heaven knows......

they clean out my Lillies every year up the Allegheny - I try to ‘save’ some (net fencing) - but they tend to defeat my anyhow………🙄🙄🙄

But ‘Yea, kids!!!!’ 😁😁😁

[FakeNoose]

22. Exactly, my daylilies haven't bloomed in the last 5 years

I see green buds on the stalks and the next day... they're all gone. And I live right in the city of Pittsburgh.
Our deer don't eat geraniums, marigolds or daffodils, and that's all I can plant now.

[niyad]

10. Thank you.

[Clouds Passing]

11. Beautiful too 🌺🌼🌸

[Collimator]

12. Water is stronger than rock

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
― Lao Tzu

[QED]

14. That's lovely...it reminded me of something I'd read over 40 years ago..

Took me a while to find it but finally...finally, I did. I thought it was from Dostoyevsky but it's from Tolstoy's Resurrection. I knew it was the first page of the novel. It has stuck with me all these years.

"THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together : paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal : still spring was spring, even in the town.

The sun shone warm, the air was balmy, the grass, where it did not get scraped away, revived and sprang up everywhere, between the paving-stones as well as on the narrow strips of lawn on the boulevards."

[Figarosmom]

16. Or the

Rose in Spanish Harlem

[Figarosmom]

15. I saw a video short where a woman was growing veggies in the

Cracks between the bricks in her driveway.

[malaise]

17. Absolutely

Lovely😀

[KPN]

18. Wow, cool idea. Sidewalks shed water perfectly into their cracks.

[NJCher]

20. Oh, those little guerrilla gardeners

I'm training all I can. Seed bombs: they love it. Their parents take them around to see how they are doing.

https://happyeconews.com/guerrilla-gardening-why-its-important-how-to-get-started/

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History of Seed Bombing

An ancient technique, seed bombing was used in ancient Egypt to repair farms after the annual spring flooding of the Nile. Seed bombing, known as nendo dango in Japanese, was re-discovered by natural farming pioneer Masanobu Fukuoka. The practice eventually spread to other parts of the world, including the United States, where it became a popular form of protest against unchecked development.

Now used as a tool for environmental activism and urban gardening, it has been employed in various cities worldwide to create green spaces and promote biodiversity. Seed bombing is a relatively easy and low-cost way to make a big impact in terms of both beautifying an area and increasing its ecological diversity.

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[democrank]

27. Informative article

Quite a good idea to use a slingshot to propel the seed bombs in certain areas.

[ailsagirl]

23. Gave me a big smile

And that's saying a lot, these days
😻🌻🌷

[calimary]

24. You just put the whipped cream and cherry on top of an already good day, mahatmakanejeeves!

Thanks SO MUCH!

[wendyb-NC]

25. Wow, it worked. Success

And every passer by gets to enjoy the beauty of a unique flower garden.