First plants installed today- a couple of panicum virgatum near the top of the slope. Some sections of this slope are very steep, so I'm attempting to do some spot terracing.
I tried using some branches for the "retaining wall," which seems to work okay. For the next three planting areas, I'm going to experiment with pieces of cedar fence pickets, instead.
It's long been a dream of mine to have my own garden and work towards self sustainability.
I'm a long way off, but today I got my very first garden and I've decided to document my introduction to the insanity of nature-first crop gardening. Taking an already lovely garden, and turning it into a food production powerhouse (whilst respecting the bees)
Come along, give it a watch, let me know what you think?
Hello!
I have been guerrilla gardening for years, but i want to step up the game a bit. Other than local plants, from Sicily, i want to try "aesthetic species", like Zantedeschia, or Wisteria etc...
I was wondering if people would send seeds or seedlings to Palermo?
I can pay a little, bit i am kind of broke.
And of course i can show proof i will use the plants and seeds for guerrilla gardening and not personal use.
Thankyou in advance to any kind stranger!
I planted this red cedar in a tree stump in a park. Great place to put a native tree and offer it some protection while establishing. And it looks natural. I water it every couple days while getting its roots established.
Hi! These are randomly growing! I can’t figure out if they’re hyacinths or lupine? Something else? I didn’t plant them. I’ve had the house for two years but I don’t think any recent previous owners had a garden in this spot. I know lupine can spread but all my other lupine are just sprouts right now. I don’t live close enough to any neighbors so it doesn’t seem possible these would hop on over. I love these but am confused. (Western MA)
Hey! Somebody pissed me off enough to make me wanna do things that i don’t do anymore. Instead I have a bag of FAFO seeds. Just wanted to make sure we’re all ok with dandelion and sunchokes?
I've been wanting to start planting native wildflowers around my lifeless neighborhood and community college campus for a while now and I'm finally getting started!! I'd really appreciate any tips, mistakes to avoid, or resources to learn more.
I'm in southeast TX if anyone has seed recommendations as well. Thank you :)
I found for pretty cheap online. The person selling it says that its natural seeds, so im hoping that they werent heated? Don‘t know. It‘s sold for 5€ the Kilogram so I‘m hoping to make a good deal. But I dont know if the seeds are only fit for eating.
Other poppy seed packs are quite expensive and having a kilo would be nice because I want to spread them widely in the city.
UK based
Hi Im from quebec, Canada. This land outside my appartement is full of trash & unused, im thinking of clearing it up & planting some native seeds there. What do you guys propose I plant? Im a beginner so any help would be great! Thanks🌸🌸
Collected and sent a soil sample for testing, cleaned the litter around the place, raked away the pine straw and pine cones, and established some rows with string. All this only to realize that the shade from the trees might be an issue. I wanted to grow some fruits and vegetables. Think it'll work out?
I don’t know if I’m actually allowed to plant anything here, so I want to try to be quick and sneaky about it, even though nobody uses the space at all. Here’s the stats:
- photo taken from a south facing window. Space gets part sun, but of course is shaded from being boxed in.
- ground is partially covered in gravel, but as you can see greenery is still able to pop up
- looking for native wildflower and/or grass seeds I can scatter that won’t need watering and can handle the poor conditions. Not sure which are still possible when planting in early April.
- open to planting some trees or shrubs, but they’d need to be able to go without watering as I have no hose access
If you didn’t know, most states have subsidized state tree nurseries that sell bulk trees at $1-10 a piece (price varies by species and how much bulk you buy. American chestnuts for example are $10 but wild plums are $1-1.50 each if you buy 10, but they can be as little as .58¢ each if you buy more than 100).
They mostly carry native trees, but there’s some non natives like crabapples and Bartlett pears. A lot of them are fruit and nut bearing like Pecans, Hickories, Oaks, Hazelnuts, Pawpaws, American Persimmons, Wild Cherry, American Plum, etc
I buy a bunch and plant them out and give them away to neighbors, parks, conservation groups, go out and replace invasives, etc and then just plant the rest wherever I can. Money was a little tighter this year so I was only gonna be able to spend around $100 on trees this year, (I gave out more than 500 last year and planted a hundred more), then I went and posted in a bunch of local facebook groups offering up the trees like I do every year and thought to just offer if anyone wanted to go in on it with me we could both get more trees, cheaper. I ended up crowdsourcing an extra couple hundreds bucks within a few hours, mostly of people wanting 1 or 2 trees and throwing in $10 or $20. I think I’m gonna beat the 500 I gave away last year.
So, if you want some cheap trees to add to some project and want to crowdsource some funds to do it, just steal what I did.
Looking to throw down some pollinator seeds in those little sidewalk tree pits where trees used to be around Baltimore. The soil is super compacted and kind of neglected. I’m fine doing a little work like loosening it up and maybe adding some soil, but nothing too involved.
What actually grows well in those conditions and gives the best environmental bang for your buck (pollinators, resilience, etc.)? Ideally something that can handle heat, crappy soil, road salt, and inconsistent watering and still look decent.
Not trying to plant trees, just hardy pollinator-friendly stuff that won’t immediately die off