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Blooming Cycle

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Inspired by tufts of dandelion carried by the wind to disperse seedlings, Matthew Boyko and Christina Ng of Society Creative LLC created Bloom, a device that attaches to a bicycle and releases floating seed-bubbles as you roll through the streets.

Vegetable based soap and seeds combine together to make a dissolving "nugget" which is stored in a resevoir.

As you pedal along, air enters the front of Bloom and spins a pinwheel inside which picks up a small drop of a bubble-seed mixture and blows a bubble carrying a seed out the back as "exhaust".

Sooner or later the bubbles pop, dropping the seeds where they might find a small crack or a little patch in which to grow.

Comments

Brilliant! blooming! Begonias!

As lame as this sounds...can I buy one? The web sie has nice pictures but doesnt show how the isides work:( Otherwise I would make one!

I'm conflicted on this...

Since there isn't any shortage of natural flora where I live, I'm not sure whether I would get one to ride around neighborhoods where I am displeased with the botanical mix, or chase off with a broom the first one I see riding anywhere near my carefully maintained garden which is a casual, yet sophisticated mix of introduced cultivars and indigenous volunteer species...

Agreed!

Its a fun dreamy idea, but in practice the only seeds small enough to be borne aloft on a soap bubble are likely to be weeds. Lettuce might make it.

 

Seed bombs are a great idea though. You can choose seeds appropriate to the target.

 

The things that are going to happen have already happened - TS Eliot

not saying

we all know what kind would be best...no reason to state the obvious...

Sow What?

Terranhealer, as far as I know Bloom is just a prototype, but I'm sure it's not too hard to make one yourself. Looks like just a tube, reservoir and pinwheel. Give it a whirl ;)

A.Walker, ...a weed is just a plant you don't know the name of (or a use for) yet ;)

lettuce would be a good idea.

Weeding Out

A.Walker, ...a weed is just a plant you don't know the name of (or a use for) yet ;)

 

I'd say that a weed is any invasive plant. For example, Morning Glories have beautiful flowers and useful seeds, but when they are strangling my onions I name them Weed, and cast them into the pit of ... my compost heap.

 

I'd love to see more surreptitious innoculation of woodchip, and more guerilla gardening though. I've hit a few wastelands with seed bombs in my time. Its fun, hurts no-one, and is good for the bees :)

I love it! My friend

I love it! My friend actually have seen that and she loved it. We are also going to watch the mayweather vs guerrero fight.