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Springtime is Coming: Arm Your Garden with the Flower Shell

By Kat Bauman - December 16, 2013

in Object Culture

Gardening is known as a soothing, therapeutic pastime. Guns have a bit of a reputation for causing consternation, unsightly holes and bodily harm. To mix up these old world assumptions, ad firm Studio Total has unveiled a new product: the Flower Shell. Rather than pain and strife, these shells spread life. Load up with the standard 12 gauge shells (available in a dozen different flower types) and prepare to blast new growth into your yard. Beyond the addition of seeds, the amount of gunpowder has been reduced in proportion to the type of seeds used. But don't be concerned by the attenuated firepower—apparently this is a good thing in a product meant to be used at short-range near the home. Ideal for violently reseeding large empty fields and boring (hopefully unpopulated) garden beds.

Tired of both senseless gun violence and quiet, slow tinkering in the garden? Take replanting by storm and force the yielding soil into bountiful submission.

Note: This concept product is 100% questionable. To aid users, Studio Total has released this series of informative test videos on their Dr. Bronner's-like website.

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Sharon Arnett

8 years ago

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I have a steep hill around my pond bank that is difficult to seed. This will be perfect to seed it with wildflower seed effectively! Genius!

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James Patrick

10 years ago

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That's pretty illegal in most residential areas.
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Clay

10 years ago

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I agree with Sean, throw some safety glasses on man! As a lawful gun owner I'm also concerned by how many people (hopefully none, but I've been wrong before) are going to take Grandpa's old 12 gauge and start blasting flowers into their gardens without proper safety. On top of that they'll only end up getting arrested for discharging a firearm within city limits. That's my issue with the obvious anti-gun lean of this product. It's something that someone with no real knowledge of the industry has created that will, at best, put oddly placed flowers in your yard, but is much more likely to hurt someone who isn't trained or prepared to use a gun or get them arrested.

I'll keep my 12 gauge for spraying clay pigeons all over a field instead of flowers.
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Lena Struwe

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Dear Studio Total, if you are going to talk about and promote flowers, at least get the botany right.

The 'lupine' is a fireweed flower (Chamerion angustifolium) - and these two species not only look different but have very different properties as plants.

The 'meadow flowers' features the annual weedy plant cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), which survives well in agricultural fields, but not in in meadows. And the cornflower seeds on the illustration are certainly not seeds. Maybe they are dried flower heads. Things like this matter if you try to grow plants.
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Sean

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Wow... pretty strong anti gun and second amendment point of view. From someone who has had nothing but good experiences with guns for a lifetime let me share a little tip with the hipsters. PUT ON SOME SAFETY GLASSES! Jeeeeepers man. If you are going to shot at the ground right in front of your face... even with some good feeling seeds in the cartridge... you can really really hurt yourself! I hope someone reads this before they go all Joe Biden and blast one from the hip right into the ground in front of them with a double barrel. That bowler hat won't do much to keep your eyes intact. In lieu of the Peony seeds in the instructional picture, maybe a guy throwing on some good old safety glasses. Being that it is the holiday season, let me re-share the classic A Christmas Story reminder: "You'll shoot your eye out." But seriously. You will.
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