Thoughts on guerrilla gardening? Good for natives? Problematic? … An overview: Guerilla Gardening and DIY Seed Bombs Related: Ideas on Fostering Nature in Your/Our Area

My version of this is to shake fluffy wildflower seeds from my yard on windy days and hope they sprout in my neighbors’ yards. Spiny goldenweed, Desert willow, wire lettuce, and milkweed for example. Honestly, the best thing we can do is talk to people. Show them pictures of flowers and pollinators…

My thinking: respect other people’s property, first and foremost. Don’t intentionally alter your neighbor’s property without their consent. And of course if it’s illegal, don’t do it.

We’ve had to pull a bunch of invasive plants out at Sugarloaf State Park (California) because people thought sprinkling “wildflower seed” packages around after the fires would be helpful. Hint: Cape Daisy seeds in natural areas are not, in fact, helpful. Seed bombs in general are a very ineffective…

The only thing that scares me here is the “good intensions monster”. This strikes me as the type of thing that gets done without a lot of knowledge of what the proper plants for an area would be. I mentioned in a previous post about how someone planted a bunch of non-native Lupines on conservation…

Does this work, even before the poppy pods have fully dried, or do you pick them when ripe and they split in your hand?

Most seeds are actually viable surprisingly early on in development, but I try to wait until they’re nearly ready to split open, because in our climate they’ll probably have to overwinter before conditions are right. More mature seeds can withstand that better.

The closest I’ve come to guerrilla gardening is adding Legumes (Fabaceae) to lawns, which act a bit like fertilizer because the roots/bacteria fix nitrogen: Black Medick (Medicago lupulina) - Small, easy to harvest seeds or remove as a weed Bur Clover (Medicago polymorpha) - For my “less friendl…

i think the best version of guerilla gardening is to find a public space nearby that obviously isn’t being maintained, and go out there and take care of it… and be obvious about it. try to be there when the official caretakers are around, and talk to them about what you’re doing so that they don’t e…

I haven’t known the seed bomb crowd to be very localized. If people were selling seed bombs only in their own state or province, I wouldn’t be as concerned by it. I feel like it has potential when planned splendidly, but the concept of “shooting seeds” seems to not attract the most thorough planners…

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voyajer June 24, 2022, 6:06pm 8

Abandoned lots where they’re not a nuisance/won’t make anyone’s job harder? Absolutely. Someone’s yard? No. Ideally only native plants used as well.

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