Guerilla Gardening – Gardening without boundaries
Google Image: Seed Bomb of Wildflowers
On Guerilla Gardening
By: David Tracy : A Manualfesto
Wikipedia defines it like this:
“Guerrilla gardening is gardening on another person’s land without permission. It encompasses a very diverse range of people and motivations, from the enthusiastic gardener who spills over their legal boundaries to the highly political ggardener who seeks to provoke change through direct action. It has implications for land rights, land reform. The land that is guerrilla gardened is usually abandoned or neglected by its legal owner and the guerrilla gardeners take it over (“squat”) to grow plants. Guerrilla gardeners believe in re-considering land ownership in order to reclaim land from perceived neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it. Some guerrilla gardeners carry out their actions at night, in relative secrecy, to sow and tend a new vegetable patch or flower garden. Some garden at more visible hours to be seen by their community. It has grown into a form of proactive activism or “pro-activism.”
The word “seed bomb” is a common word for guerilla gardeners. Here is a web site that defines what a seed bomb is and also has a recipe for how to make one.
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GOOGLE IMAGES FOR SEED BOMBS
Credit to : by treesnee
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Do you hate those blank vacant lots on the side of road and city streets? Have you wanted to put a flower garden in one of those lots but have been afraid of being arrested? Do you not have the money to buy all those flower transplants? Is the lot just to hard to get into? And think of how many times you have seen a bare plot with nothing in it or a neglected flower bed that you just wished you could plant on? Well the seed bomb is just right for you. The seed bomb is cheap compared to buying transplants, is natural and organic, easy to make, pocket-sized, and you can easily cover a large area with seed bombs in a very short time. The seed bomb is also a great weapon in the guerrilla gardeners arsenal when the guerrilla gardener needs to quickly get the job done.
All materials in this instruction are cheap, easy to find, and are natural and organic.
Crayola air dry clay (can use dried red clay), and is found in walmart for about $5.00
Water
Tough Flower seeds such as baby’s breath, sunflower, and forget me not.
compost or worm castings
yogurt container top or any large flat surface
Clay from a dried riverbed (Red or Brown)
For the dried red clay mix 5 parts clay with 1 part compost and 1 part flower seeds, put some careful drops of water into the mixture(make sure not to make it into a goopy sloppy mess!), Knead with hands into a ball, flatten it out and cut to desired size. Now just make into a small ball and let it dry in the sun. Now you have a red clay seed bomb.
ABOVE INFORMATION From WEB LINK: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Seed-Bomb/
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Is Guerilla Gardening politically correct? It depends who you ask, for some it is a statement about creating a more beautiful environment and others see it as an invasion or mis-use of private property.
I used to throw wild flower seeds and California native poppies with my kids in open areas around our home when they were young, it gave us a lot of enjoyment to see them blooming several months later.We knew nothing about guerilla gardening or the politically correct way to create more beauty, we just simply threw flower seeds and enjoyed the benefits of the outcome. Part of our inspiration came from a book called Miss Rumphius:
Miss Rumphius
Written and illustrated by Barbara Cooney
Viking Children’s Books 1985The American Book Award winner chronicles the life of Alice Rumphius from childhood to old age. A world traveler, she finally comes home to live by the sea and follow her grandfather’s advice to “do something to make the world more beautiful.” Barbara Cooney provides wonderful illustrations to accompany this inspirational story. |
How many areas do we drive by in our own communities that are not kept up and by adding some water wise plants, or wildflowers would brighten the area and anyone’s day that passed by. That’s my opinion anyway. Add more beauty, create some joy, be inspired and inspire others!
White Poppies Planted Roadside
Roadside Sunflower
Guerilla Gardening Link: Here
