Guerrilla gardening, anyone else do this ? Its fun.

"Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property."

This year I started some railroad vine and pear cactus around town.




Its fun driving around seeing stuff I planted grow, there is so much like wasteland around here.

 

Wasn't me, I'm just looking at online pictures.


Sunflowers a cool idea !

 

Man Plants 'Guerrilla Garden' On Public Property Without Permission ...

 

I'm going to plant some actual trees in a few spots near my house.

 

I am gardener doing mostly building society s/city/ect..........i still like to collect seeds(popies, alcea,calendula ect)....sow them on empty spaces/borders if find(and i think the will take)

Also there are really easy/cheap seasonflower mixes wich i buy(or are leftover from work) and throw it on empty lots, good for bees/butterflies/people

Mzzls

 

1 Piece of advice planting/location trees(species) look how big or wide they get in 10/20/30 years

Trees are alwways good, we need them

Mzzls

 

I never tryed sowing weed, think it would taken down fast where i life(Den haag).But i do sow (afghane)poppies and the Dutch ones, but people dont know what to do with it anyways

 

Back in the 1970's my elderly aunt who grew up in Ostfriesland was telling me that when she was a kid there would be so many poppies growing everywhere. She then went on to say that, "We would eat the seed pods and it would make us so happy!"

"What?!" I responded. "The seed pods?"

"Ja."

"Do you know what they are used for? Do you know what they contain?"

"No. We would just eat them."

"And they'd make you so happy?"

"Ja, ja. They were big and green and we'd be so happy."

I have always wondered what would happen if you ate one. I know what happens after you get the milky juice from them, but...

 

Do you remember that famous case where the government decided to burn off vast areas of poppy fields and it was filmed.
When the program started, because the crew were downwind from the burning, the presenter and crew just stood there giggling like a group of schoolgirls. They were completely stoned.
It was later discovered that the poppies had been cleverly mixed with cannabis plants.
Unfortunately, I can't remember what country this was from, it may have been Spain.

 

I was in Thailand in the 80s standing in a field of poppies, the same day the Thai government announced there were no longer any poppies being grown. The Meo people were so cool!

 

In about '86 or '87 I bought some postcards in either Bangkok or Chiang Mai of an old man smoking opium, some people smoking opium in an opium den, and poppies with ripe seed pods.

They knew what the tourists wanted to see...

 

When my daughter was at college and trying for a place at university, she had to come up with some kind of artistic challenge. What she came up with she called "Urban Agro" and she did a whole set of utensils, water bottles, and other tools needed for guerilla gardening. She got good marks for her work and was able to get a place at uni from it.

She had to explain to us plebs what 'Urban Agro' was based on, as we'd never heard of guerilla gardening.