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Wage hikes, although they helped to improve living conditions of steel workers in the US, made American steel far more expensive.
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You can mix them with a 30/30/40 mix of potting soil, worm casings and clay.
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NOTE: Cover your work area.
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Dust can fly into your mouth and eyes very easily.
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If the fertilizer in the mix is what I think it is, that wouldn't be pretty.
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Use gloves to break up the soil with your fingers.
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3. Make bombs.
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Form the mix into balls of any size from sling-shot-pellet up to softball.
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You're going to be throwing them.
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Mine were more or less matzoh-ball size and shape, out of habit.
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This worked out pretty well.
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Allow to dry overnight, or until they're solid enough for the next step.
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4. Throw.
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Today, I kept it simple.
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I chose one abandoned property a few minutes from downtown, and two vacant lots.
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The leftovers went onto the jungles alongside the freeway offramps.
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First lesson learned -- you need at least two people to seedbomb from a vehicle .
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The first responsibility should be driving safely.
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I found this hard to do while also avoiding cops, dealing with the camera and the car window, scoping out angles of approach for throwing, etc.
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Seedbombing combines elements of childhood disgruntled mudbomb-hurling; the balance of meticulousness and zen that good gardeners possess; and my own forte, the invisibility and vigilance of a sniper.
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Also, a perfect strike.
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But you'll have to take my word because a camera at that moment would have been crazy.
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Second Lesson -- keep the seedbombs in a shallow covered container .
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You want both tidiness and easy access.
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Plus, those things are crumbly.
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I made eight; the last two were totally pulverized after being jostled in a paper bag for half an hour.
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It's play.
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Seedbombing is a hit-or-miss way for change to take root, pun intended.
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It's chlorophyll graffiti.
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No one I know is getting digg'd or favrd yet for throwing color and scent around the ghetto.
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You may want to keep checking on your flowers (I promise I will) or you might get an idea to do something else completely unexpected (I did).
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Enzo Angolini spike heels found by serendipity at St Paul's Thrift for $3.98.
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Sexy, non?
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For example, make smaller wildflower seedbombs and carefully 'plant' them in a meridian by making holes in the ground with your heel and then gently tamping the dirt over them with your sole.
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'plant'
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This is also good practice for looking lost and cluelessly invisible.
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More on that in future posts.
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5. Enjoy.
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Earth is my friend, like that old classmate who you keep forgetting to drop a note to on Facebook.
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When I took a victory lap and hand-wash break in the mall, I was happy, not in a smug superior way, but in the knowledge that I had avenged myself against the whole Sunday-at-the-mall culture that I felt smothered by.
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There is one over-riding message to this -- Quit being such a goddamned perfectionist.
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Yes, yes, I know, you know of much better places to never throw those seedbombs you haven't made.
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You could get better soil if you put it on the shopping list.
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You undoubtedly write much better and could have a real serious article with awesome non-blurry pictures taken by a person who actually can get the timer to work for a goddamn change.
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It also requires a certain attitude.
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The actions that you never do are absolutely perfectly effective, in your imagination.
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But my actions accomplished something today.
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Which brings us back to: 1.
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A job worth doing is worth doing crappily.
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This blog is the digital proof.
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6 Responses to "The Apocalyptic Housewife Goes Seedbombing"
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The first step to seedbombing is:
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Kate 25. Nov, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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Did this with my aunt in Griffith Park after the last bout of fires.
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Didn't know there was a term for it- my mom and aunt have been seed bombing for years.
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Raggedy Anarchy 25. Nov, 2009 at 5:46 pm
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Thanks for commenting, Kate.
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Your mom and aunt sound great.
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1. Understand that a job worth doing is worth doing crappily.
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I used to see this old scary dude walking around checking the trees in Griffith Park for Dutch Elm Disease.
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Turns out he had been a brilliant biology student before losing derferment and going to Vietnam.
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Thanks for making me remember him.
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We are everywhere.
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Summer 26. Nov, 2009 at 10:52 am
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Loved this!
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brian 14. Dec, 2009 at 8:10 pm
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Didn't know there was a name for this.
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Awesome idea though.
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My wife and I did this when we lived in Texas ... planted blue bonnets in a state park.
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Yeah, I know, "Texas has plenty of blue bonnets," you say ...
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"Texas has plenty of blue bonnets,"
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Well we thought they could use more.
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Jessica Reeder 15. Dec, 2009 at 9:08 am
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You will fuck it up .
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Hey Brian, thanks for stopping by!
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That was nice of you.
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There is no such thing as too many flowers.
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Well done.
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We just made seedbombs for our holiday gift baskets; they're a mix of flowers from the yard, heavy on the poppies.
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Live with this.
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I am not nice, young, hip, white, rich, educated, suburban or any of the other things you are unconsciously assuming anyone who loves the earth must be.
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My discontent is the mother of invention, and by invention, I mean creative re-purposing.
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Nothing worth doing was learned perfectly the first time.
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I love bringing apt quotations and poems to awkward occasions the way another guest would bring a box of See's.
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Actually, I do that, too.
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Anyone who doesn't have a sweet tooth is bound to have a mean streak, and freegan chocolates are perfectly salvagable most of the time.
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That's me.
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I'm the Apocalyptic Housewife.
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I take pictures and have ideas and enjoy my thoughts and try to do a little something less about consuming and more about redemption every day.
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If Mother Nature herself were perfect, she wouldn't need us urban urchins to help cover her scars with flowering seeds.
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This is the first in a series of articles by guest blogger The Apocalyptic Housewife .
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Gift seeds of California Poppy via Jessica Reeder's mom.
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2. Mix in seeds.
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Use seeds of any kind, even dumpster-salvaged ones, or the ones that might be too old for the garden.
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Somewhere in California, a blighted, mosquito-vector abandoned property is about to get an echinacea dose via seedbomb.
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Mortar assault leaves at least 18 dead
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Alonso would be happy to retire with three titles
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Report criticises US press freedoms
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Terror officials see Al Qaeda chiefs regaining power
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Ivrea journal: In Italian town, a civics lesson from pelting neighbors
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