{"id":1900,"date":"2013-12-20T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:21:22","slug":"shoot-life-into-your-garden-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shoot-life-into-your-garden-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Life Into Your Garden. Literally."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1901\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shoot-life-into-your-garden-literally\/flower-shell\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,414\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1387481759&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Flower Shell\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1901\" alt=\"Flower Shell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all love things that go <em>boom<\/em>. Whether it&#8217;s fireworks or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/LjbJELjLgZg\" target=\"_blank\">Mentos in a bottle of Diet Coke<\/a>, that sound signifies something awesome just happened. And thanks to the ingenious combination of fun and usefulness, we have one more item to add to the <em>awesome boom list<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the Flower Shell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1902\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/shoot-life-into-your-garden-literally\/flower-shell-poppy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,397\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1387481857&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Flower Shell Poppy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy-300x192.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1902\" alt=\"Flower Shell Poppy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell-Poppy-600x384.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Flower Shell is the brainchild of Per Cromwell, an innovator and artist at Studio Total who likes gardens, but doesn&#8217;t like gardening. He set out to find an easier, faster, more fun way to seed flowers, and there&#8217;s nothing more fun than shooting seeds into the ground with a shotgun. That&#8217;s right, a shotgun. Honestly, who wouldn&#8217;t love to do some <del>violet<\/del> violent gardening on the weekends?<\/p>\n<p>The Flower Shell is a standard 12-gauge shell loaded with one of twelve different seed types: lavender,\u00a0cornflower, daisy, poppy, sunflower, clematis, columbine, sweet pea, lupine, carnation, peony and a collection of meadow flowers. Simply load the Flower Shell into your favorite 12-gauge and start blasting yourself a brand new garden. If you&#8217;re in a densely populated area, make sure you don&#8217;t shoot yourself in the foot by letting your neighbors know about your awesomely lazy new past-time because you&#8217;ll have a heck of a time trying to convince the police that your spent shell casings actually contained seeds. Also, don&#8217;t actually shoot yourself in the foot. Aim a few feet downstream.<\/p>\n<p>The gunpowder load in each shell is carefully adjusted based on the type of seed that will be fired to ensure proper delivery and depth into the soil. It&#8217;s perfect for epic-ly seeding your garden in true action hero fashion, but probably won&#8217;t be ideal for home protection. Although, peppering an intruder with a spread of hot poppy seeds is by far the greenest way to protect your home.<\/p>\n<p>Flower Shells have had a surge in popularity, and small-scale production means they&#8217;re back-ordered until February 2014, but you can still purchase gift cards for your favorite gun-toting gardener.<\/p>\n<p>Now if someone could invent a Soap Shell for cleaning dirty dishes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowershell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> to order your own Flower Shells. Each purchase also funds the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/flower-shell\" target=\"_blank\">Flower Shell indiegogo<\/a> campaign to aid in future Flower Shell production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2013\/12\/20\/shoot-life-into-your-garden-literally\/\" data-width=\"600\" data-numposts=\"5\" data-colorscheme=\"light\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Blast your way to a new garden with Flower Shells. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470],"tags":[310,176,311,312],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-flower-shell","tag-lifestyle","tag-per-cromwell","tag-studio-total"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Flower-Shell.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-uE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}