Seedplug demonstration and explanation
Channel: Justin Haynes
Date: 2020-11-10

Seedballs are an effective way to plant in the wild to protect seeds and young plants from predators and the elements and provide them with a nutritional boost so they can establish in areas where poor soil may be a challenge.

Seedballs, however, require a place to sit where they can soften and meld into the ground after the rains and where the young seedlings can reach their roots through and into the underlying soil.  This cannot happen on a steep slope, because they will roll or wash downhill.  This is unfortunate, because some highly eroded areas like those around highly eroded streams are nearly vertical.

Seedplugs are exactly the same as seedballs in composition, except that they are made on site - a hole is drilled, the soil material is poured into the hole, 3-4 seeds placed on top, then covered with the soil material the rest of the way.  This hardens in place, forming a plug which will remain until conditions are right for the seeds to germinate.  Or so we hope.  This is an experiment.

0:00 - Justin sleep-prattles and drones in a somewhat consistent way about the previous 2 paragraphs.
1:37 - Demonstration - materials
2:18 - Justin mumbles and gestures with a small twig about the area we will be working on today for demonstration purposes.
3:06 - Demonstration - seeds, envelope and stylus technique. (Thanks to dakineapproaches (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjwBvl5MXuQMziQL2_pQCPA) for the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZZFTA_12ZM)
3:43 - Demonstration - How to allow soil mixture through the funnel in a controlled way
4:04 -
4:23 - Main Demonstration of the technique
8:31 - 9:05 - end ramble, and gesturing with a large clipping apparatus