I was quite intrigued by this and really enjoyed the comment about “ War on degradated soil”
@jessicaheger18804 ай бұрын
I absolutely love this idea! Made food, not war ❤
@katjordan37335 жыл бұрын
Hope to see an update of Greening the Desert II for 2019. Have followed this faithfully for all these years. Good job!
@jessejamesb4 жыл бұрын
I have a different take on this in mind, I'm not sure how well it would work. Instead of clay, I would use a slurry of cardboard from egg flats to be pressed and dried into half shells, perhaps containing fertilizer, and/or minerals. The 'yolk' would be soil with microscopical fungi and seeds, and possibly more ingredients like bio-char. The 2 halves could be glued together with honey, clay, or some other natural glue. Depending on the season, you could add a clay shell and a char powder to deter animals from eating it. Would this all be overkill? The idea behind this approach is to have the shell dissolve as soon as possible and retain moisture. I feel like clay on its own may pull moisture away from the seeds if conditions aren't right.
@przybyla4203 жыл бұрын
Seems like over kill. I would use Elmer’s or hide glue, honey might attract something. A clay ball isn’t going to dry enough to kill the seeds very easily.
@michaelsloan10443 жыл бұрын
this is the kinda guy that i could become best friends with
@TITAN04025 жыл бұрын
So interesting you’ve posted this video I was thinking of doing this earlier on and how effective it could be.
@phildodd99425 жыл бұрын
Great idea - I'll try that ! In the 18th and 19th century in various parts of the UK, canons were used to fire tree seeds across valleys - and it worked well ! Not sure how much clay was used, but something must have been used - I've heard talk of a barrel being used, that split open upon impact ? The trees do look good 250 years later ! Derbyshire valleys were one place - Scotland too.
@oabuseer5 жыл бұрын
I had no idea! That is so cool.
@przybyla4203 жыл бұрын
Cob would probably work
@oabuseer5 жыл бұрын
Was shocked to hear you say molokhiyya at 2:29 (but then I remembered your history in the Middle East haha). I grew up eating it and it is one of my favourites! I miss it terribly.
@rileymcdonald81105 жыл бұрын
I like your idea for spreading the seed balls I wish military would do that
@theresadailey58095 жыл бұрын
Great idea, If we could get people on this planet to listen, more creative Ideas the faster we can green the planet again.
@WeAreOhmCo2 жыл бұрын
Can you use clay to preserve seeds for storage? Make a bunch of seed balls to save for later or for conservation? Or does the clay hurt the seeds and make them crack as it dries?
@imalamboman124 жыл бұрын
Explosives were used to make the holes for planting trees in Canberra, Australia.
@PartTimePermies5 жыл бұрын
I've known about this method for a while and my husband and I were considering using it in our annual garden. But it just hit me that we probably have an area where this technique would work even better. We've been sowing a chicken forage cover in our back yard to increase the diversity for them and had been using a seed spreader. The problem is that we would have to time the broadcast just before the rain and often times the wild turkeys and crows would eat most of it. I like the idea of using a tea to cover the smell. I wonder how much this method would help our germination rates. And I like the fact that the seed balls will hold up until the next rain. We may have to play with it, though I think hand rolling would be time consuming. I have seen people use tarps to roll the seed balls more efficiently.
@thecurrentmoment5 жыл бұрын
I saw someone making a clay and seed mixture and pushing it through a wire mesh, like chicken netting. Out came the even sized blobs, which I think they then rolled a bit more. You could also try making them in a mould maybe long sausages that you chop up or in mini muffin tins or ice cube trays
@jessejamesb4 жыл бұрын
I saw a video today where the seed balls were covered in charcoal powder to deter wild animals. That could work for you.
@fourdayhomestead28395 жыл бұрын
So much great information.
@MarlonVanderLinde5 жыл бұрын
Love the food gun idea! I didn't think the seeds would be preserved in moist clay - perhaps that they would start germinating? mmm
@tuvshinbatsundui837 Жыл бұрын
In this video, Mary has several questions about making seed pellets for reforestation or soil restoration. She wants to understand how to make these pellets, how much slurry (a mixture of seeds and clay) to use per seed, and how to evenly distribute them over an area. The speaker explains that the approach depends on the specific environment; for deserts, you need sturdy seed balls that won't break down until a significant rain event, while different mixtures are needed for subtropical regions or damaged ground. The process involves mixing seeds with damp clay, potentially adding a bitter tea to deter animals from eating the seeds, and then rolling them into seed pellets by hand or with machines. The speaker demonstrates this process with cow pea, grain sorghum, and molokhia seeds. Once dry, these seed pellets become hard like marbles and can be dispersed using various methods, including fertilizer spreaders or even military equipment like helicopter gunships. The speaker also suggests the idea of using military resources to reforest poverty-stricken countries by "bombing" their deserts with seed pellets, turning them into edible forests. The video concludes with a demonstration of testing a seed pellet by submerging it in water to check its durability.
@Nilafila765 жыл бұрын
💕✌✌💐 Wow Geoff I got goosebumps thinking of bombing deserts with forests
@theresadailey58095 жыл бұрын
I think Thailand has been using helicopters to plant from the sky.
@Nilafila765 жыл бұрын
@@theresadailey5809 Oh OK doesn't surprise me! Thai people are naturally pious I think😉✌
@Nick-vl7lk5 жыл бұрын
With Geoff speaking about re-tasking military action. I heard an interesting statement the other day. If just 60 days of global military spending was set aside (approx. US$ 300 billion). We could restore all the worlds farmland to regenerative agriculture and make a good start on restoring all the degraded lands back into functioning ecosystems. Not sure how true this statement is, but the figures probably come close. Humanity is very confusing.
@chiaridude90985 жыл бұрын
Seed planting drones!
@RebelStateSovereign5 жыл бұрын
:-) another great video buddy
@RebelStateSovereign5 жыл бұрын
:-) another great video my friend.
@jackhiggs2695 жыл бұрын
why use multiple different seeds per ball?
@sweetvuvuzela46345 жыл бұрын
Jack Higgs I guess it’s for a variety not putting all your eggs in one basket I guess in case one fails
@jackhiggs2695 жыл бұрын
@@sweetvuvuzela4634 Thought so, thank you :)
@jameskniskern22615 жыл бұрын
Multiple kinds of seeds, create a polyculture. Polycultures work together to restore landscapes. Monocultures examples are corn fields, soy fields, almond orchards, etc. Anywhere where one main crop is favored over diversity. Nature doesn't do monocultures. When the different varieties germinate, they help each other out, and ensure that at least something will grow where the pellet or seed ball lands. I've used up to 16 different varieties of seeds in my seed pellets and cover crop seeding. Where the goal is to get something growing where nothing is, anything is better than nothing. Also, think of it as building a "seed bank" where there isn't one. Sometimes the seeds will germinate after multiple years in the ground when conditions for that particular seed are favorable.
@sweetvuvuzela46345 жыл бұрын
James Kniskern makes more sense different habitats and companion planting
@jackhiggs2695 жыл бұрын
@@jameskniskern2261 great explanation thank you!
@sundancer4425 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. :)
@CITYBORNDESERTBRED5 жыл бұрын
The war on soil 🤯
@BasementRuthie5 жыл бұрын
There is a KZbinr called Mr Beast who is heading up a project to plant 20 million trees to celebrate a subscriber milestone and heaps of other KZbinrs are helping spread the message. A youtuber called Mark Rober has a video that shows drone technology being used with seed pucks to plant on difficult terrain. It's so cool!
@tylerstrickler94702 жыл бұрын
Correction; devastated soils.
@Florestinhadamontanha5 жыл бұрын
Great 👏 Simple as fukuoka seed bombs.
@ebouquet52455 жыл бұрын
Not sure the pellet would resist the firing of a minigun, it would probably collapse..
@sweetvuvuzela46345 жыл бұрын
Excellent video thanks from Enfield United Kingdom genius make Land great again abundant animals and birds will come again as well use weapons of destruction to good use.