This past weekend we made some blackberry jam using several pints of blackberries. We strained a good portion of the seeds from the jam and I kept them to plant.

We already have plenty of blackberries at our house, so I combined them with some dirt and natural clay from our yard (the clay helps protect them from the birds) and rolled them into balls and allowed them to dry.

Then the next time we went for a family walk, I carried a bag full of the seed balls and threw them out along the trail in areas known as the "wildlife mitigation area". These are areas along the public trail where the city doesn't mow the grass and allows whatever grows to be untamed.

In a few months I'll have to go back and see if I can find any of the plants that might have taken hold. It'll be great to have more berry bushes and floral forage for the bees.

 

Although the seeds will have to survive the local turtle population that crawls out of the creek beds to gorge on the nearby plants.