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It’s already the middle of summer and the only growing medium at my place is produce.  I haven’t started any seeds, grown any tomatoes, or done much of anything else garden-related, unless you count letting potatoes sprout.  But thankfully, with these products, growing plants is almost as simple as growing the magnificent mold I’m nurturing in my crisper.

Bombs Away

For the guerilla gardener—or the truly lazy—LA’s Common Studio is busy converting candy machines to seed bomb machines with the over $10,000 they raised through Kickstarter. The machines will dispense seed balls made from native plant seeds, compost, and clay that you can toss anywhere, allowing anyone to anonymously green “grey spaces,” not to mention raise awareness and funds.  It’s as easy as littering.

Drop some money into a vending machine, grab a seed bomb, and toss.  These are bombs that make a better world place.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Another clever garden product delivered through the mail, Postcarden from London-based A Studio for Design turns your card into a garden, so it’s not a waste of paper that you can only enjoy for a short time, but a lasting, growing, interactive gift that’s value increases over time.

The cards can be delivered through the mail and have space for a message, then pop up into urban and botanical themes.  Then you just moisten the paper, scatter the seeds, and let it grow.

Getting Trashed

Paul Stamet’s Life Boxes featured over on Cool Hunting turn your trash into trees.  These shipping boxes are infused with about 100 tree seeds and fungal spores that help one another grow—not just reducing waste, but transforming your waste into trees that can offset carbon and rebuild where all that cardboard comes from to begin with.

With these boxes, you don’t have to feel so bad about that two-day air shipping you just added to your order.  Give it 30 years and you’ll be offsetting like crazy.