Sowing Seedballs
- Sow seedballs onto moist weed-free raked soil. A sunny location is best. Sow your seedballs in Spring or in Autumn, but you can also sow them during the summer months, once the ground is kept moist. When the conditions are right, the seeds will soak in moisture and sprout from the seedball. This usually takes between 4 and 6 weeks.
- Flowering will continue well into Autumn or until the first frost.
- Seedballs can also be sown in pots, windowboxes and other containers.
- Annuals will flower in the first year and perrenials will grow the first year and flower the following year and subsequent years thereafter.
Seedballs can also be sown indoors or in the greenhouse and can then be transferred outdoors when the seedlings become more established.
Some seeds will germinate faster than others. Every seedball contains between 10 and 30 seeds from the following mixture of annual and perennial seeds. All these species are native to Ireland and will attract a large diversity of insect and bird life.
Corn Marigold, Corn Poppy, Corncockle, Cornflower,
Scentless Mayweed, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Black Meddick, Cowslip, Devil’s Bit
Scabious, Meadow Buttercup, Field Scabious, Hemp Agrimony, Kidney Vetch, Lady’s
Bedstraw, Lady’s Ann lace, Lesser Knapweed, Meadowsweet, Mullein, Ox-eye Daisy,
Purple Loosestrife, Ragged Robin, Red Campion, Red Clover, Ribwort Plantain,
Rough Hawksbit, Sorrel, St Johnswort, Wild Angelica, Wild Carrot, Yarrow,
Yellow Agrimony, Yellow Rattle, Teasel, and more.