Seed Balls: Pre-Packaged All Natural

What do you get when you mix 5 parts dry red clay, 3 parts dry compost, 1 part seeds, and 2 parts water? This.

Seed balls are one, if not the most efficient method used to distribute seeds. Packaging seeds with compost, (humus, or decayed organic matter) and clay makes them more resistant to "predators" or scavenging insects and animals that commonly eat or store plant seeds (not that that's a bad thing). These seed balls are being used to re-propagate rare desert shrubs and

grasses in a national park in Texas.

An organization called Greenaid is in the business of converting old gum-ball dispensers into seed ball dispensers, re-making this ancient

crop distribution method into what seems to be something more in the market of cheap disposable toys.

These bio-degradable balloons contain seeds which can be seen in the bottom left corners of the bag. The paint, which is all natural chalk ensures that these bags are meant to do more good than harm. This idea is creative and flashy but not halfway as efficient as the seed balls.

Guerrilla Gardners trying to re-vegetate unused green space in urban areas like the idea of seed balls because they are "easy to chuck over fences," which only leaves me with the desire to load a potato cannon full of them and start blasting these literal garden bombs about town.

Maybe there's a more peaceful and environmentally friendly way of distributing these but I don't know if I can compromise the efficiency of long-range distribution potential that exists with the potato cannon.