Move Over Miss Rumphius!

**V* G* <v*@yahoo.com>**

Renegade gardening activists are pelting unsightly vacant lots with "seed balls," National Public Radio reported today.

A technique that began in Japan cropped up in Brooklyn when folks walked neighborhoods with bags of homemade wads of seeds and mulch rolled into terra cotta clay balls that are tossed into abandoned sites in hope that the seeds will sprout and grow on their own.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103129515

This has enormous creative potential, don't you think?

~Cheryl Dorschner
Vermont Gardener

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