Friendly Flyer

You don’t need a garden to be a gardener: Kabloom from Scotland equips guerrilla gardening troops with seed bombs – for flourishing landscapes instead of industrial wastelands..

GThe guerilla gardening movement has been around for decades, and is gaining more and more adherents in urban areas around the world. The Scottish company Kabloom has now developed the corresponding ammunition for responsible urban environmental warriors.

What makes the company’s “seedboms” different from the “seedbombs” produced by US-based Greenaid, which can be fired with a wooden slingshot, is their design. Perhaps in a nod to their country of origin, the Scottish version of the seed-and-soil mixture formed into balls is rougher and tougher: seedboms are shaped like real hand grenades.

Kabloom uses suitably martial language to market its products, too: “Seedboms are friendly bombs exploding with flower power. For responsible rebels in the war against weary wastelands. Join forces with nature in the fight to transform lifeless spaces with a blast of colour!”

Handmade in the UK, seedboms are of course made from recycled materials – mainly paper and old egg cartons. Added to that is some organic compost and organic fertilizer as plant food, as well as the seeds themselves. Seedboms are available in four varieties, color-coded on the “detonators”.

Up to now they are available exclusively in the UK, although that should change soon, as Kabloom plans to launch its first offensive in continental Europe at Designboom Mart 2012 in Stockholm in early February.