Are there any online business I could shop for pa native flowers and other beneficial plants? Same for YouTubers who do guerilla gardening as a good beginning guide so I can maximize the benefits to the ecosystem :)

Hello folks any tips on planting over some of these shitty planters filled with English ivy and invasives? I'm from socal and have a ton of native seeds mostly california poppy.

Is there a term for guerilla seed collecting? Guerilla seed saving?

I regularly collect seeds from plants it in public. Lots of places have ornamental flower patches. But no one ever collected the seeds. They just die on top of the thick layer of landscaping mulch. So I just walk by and pick them up. Already this year I have about 2000 seed packets worth of marigolds seeds. Perfect preparations for next year's planting.

I'm thinking about knocking out some invasive woodies with a triclopyr basal bark treatment in my local park. I'm a certified pesticide applicator and have done loads of these kinds of treatments for work so that's not an issue at all. Just wondering if anyone has any advice in terms of not getting caught or things like that. I've seen threads about invasive removal on here before but never involving herbicide use so I wanted to open the conversation to that side of things. Thanks!

Hi! My apartment has a rooftop but I don’t think I can put soil down. Does anyone know of any plants that would grow still? Any recs welcome! I live in San Francisco.

Curious is anyone here has started/joined any sort of groups that are dedicated to guerrilla gardening? Doing it alone is great but I feel like could also be nice in a regular group meetup format and I’m wondering if anyone has insight on how to successfully start one.

Hi I’m a trans girl in my early 20s, I’ve been living in my car for a couple months and I’m looking to find community and maybe a housing situation I’m very passionate about getting into guerrilla gardening and mutual aid and I want to start growing and making food for myself and people. If there’s any other anarchists looking to build this sort of community and u have a couch or floor for me to sleep on for cheap I would love to find some stability in that way and become friends and stuff :) if ur interested in chatting abt that lmk!! It would b rly cool if ur trans but not a requirement :)

Does anyone know where I can get some chayote seeds? Somewhere legit.

So I have finally found the much dreaded vine borer eggs all over my candy roaster and lux pie pumpkin vines. I'm sure they are on my zucchini but unfortunately I planted it in a not to easy to access spot, so they will have to be. I'm hoping they don't hurt my melons 🤭. Just spent 2 hours outside injecting BT into the main vines and as many leaves as I could to the point of almost passing out from the heat. Tomorrow I'll go over the leaves again and do my small zucchini and patty pan.

 *** Does anyone know how often I need to do this??

I have never dealt with these before so I don't have much experience or information on how to keep them away. I'm in eastern PA and I've read thatbthe adult moths are usually gone by the end of July. I have many fruit on my candy roaster vine and will be so heartbroken if they die.

 *** Any info about them and or treatment and how often to treat etc would be greatly appreciated!

*Edit to add - ‘A’ code seeds meaning those that don’t need cold stratification. My brain was caught up in Prairie Moon terminology land.

TLDR; Is it worthwhile to throw native 'A' germ code seeds out now in July in Missouri with bare soil + straw? Or wait til fall and do all cold strat seeds together after they have seeded turf and other invasives have started to grow in?

My house backs up to a natural storm water stream within a very small neighborhood park. The park and stream have been in disarray, eroded, and not been taken care of in the last 5+ years. It's been overrun with invasives - all the bad honeysuckles, johnson grass, garlic mustard, multiflora rose, etc. etc. - with some natives trying to thrive. Over the years, I've tried to plan aggressive native plugs here and there.

The city finally came in, fixed the erosion problems with new culverts, and scraped away the land and the soil to do so. They have seeded turf grass (or are planning to), and laid straw on top.

I will be native seeding the entire area. But I expect intense growth from invasives and the seedbank to occur very quickly, making it difficult to spread seed effectively.

With everything clear cut and bare now, do I seed A germ code seeds now, then do all cold strat seeds in the fall? Do I wait for everything? Am I just antsy with opportunity and want to do something now?!

I don't expect to see blooms, but my hope is they will at least germinate, start building root systems that can help compete when invasives inevitably creep in and I can't keep up.

I recently purchased a wildflower mix without checking if the species included in the mix were native/invasive. I experimented by growing them indoors in several pots but I realized they are not native species of the area i live in. I have a lot of seeds left over and little space. What should I do with them?

I've started a few urban food gardens to help feed the homeless, but I simply can't produce enough compost in my apartment to keep this up.

Any thoughts on how to do some sort of hidden compost in an urban area? I do have access to some natural areas as well, but those are full of native plants and I am trying to not disturb it if possible

ive gotten a mix with Alyssum maritimum, Calendula officinalis dwarf, Centaurea cyanus dwarf, Cheiranthus allionii, Convolvulus tricolor, Dimorphotheca aurantiaca, Eschscholzia californica, Iberis umbellata mix, Linaria maroccana, Malcolmia maritima, Nemophila maculate, Nemophila insignis, Phacelia campanularia, Silene armeria

and im struggling to find a site thats easy to use to find out if these are safe/healthy to plant in illinois

Posting some photos of my guerilla gardens from Nashville, Tennessee. There were a lot of abandoned concrete bump-outs in my neighborhood and this spring I dug up the weeds and planted some things. Along the way, I met a bunch of friendly people - some who helped me find perennials to add to them along with the annuals that I've seeded. Am looking forward to the fall when we can start splitting up some of the perennials and spreading things out.

Early shot of one of the bump-outs. Store-bought geraniums helped add some early color and identify this as a garden maintained by someone rather than something to be whacked with a lawn-mower.

Garlic harvest - plant in the fall, harvest in the spring. These make a great filler crop to help you claim the space and keep the city from mowing things over. The leaves taste like garlic BTW so you can use them in stir-fry.

Gardens in full swing - the zinnias are finally in flower and the space is now clearly, mine.

Zinnias a few weeks later.

I have no idea what these orange flowers are - something in the geranium family judging by the leaves. But tall and drought resistant - very important because these things don't get much rain.

These sunflower seeds came from compost that I harvested last fall from a community garden. They managed to survive the winter and seed themselves this spring. I look forward to them lasting year after year. I also added some Shasta Daisies on the right side. They've spread out nicely and if they survive this heat-wave, I can chop them up and spread them around the city this fall.

Color? Yes please!

Some Trinidad Scorpions that I added to a garden section. The iris in the background is a gift from a woman of ill repute I met on the street corner. Does anyone ever meet a woman of repute on a street corner I wonder? Blasphemy.

As the title says

I was looking for a spot for this petunia I found in the trash, then I saw this graffiti :)

So, there is this parcel of land that belongs to my municipality and borders a resident's property on one side and the street on the other. Note that there are electric wires passing through, and piping underground.

I am open to ideas!

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How would I go about approaching adding more native plants/gardens to my city without getting caught? I have some basic ideas like making myself look more official with some high vis. However I would like some suggestions, as I worry my plants may just get pulled or mowed over. Ontario, Zone 5B

Put in a bunch of fruit trees over the last few years a empty irrigation heads. Stoked the landscape company hasn’t pulled them out!

Zone 8b, Bandera County, Texas

My favorite sort of against-the-norm garden fare is picking seed heads out of highway and road shoulders, taking cuttings from (appropriate) trees, and working diligently to “re wild” parts of my property 😊

One of my latest successes was grabbing a bunch of antelope horn seed pods before the state-issued mowers came through. I allowed them to dry in a hanging mesh drying rack, which turned out to be a genius idea because the seeds couldn’t escape when the pods dried enough to burst open! I probably have over 300 seeds to spread throughout our meadows 🥰 We’re gonna have so many butterflies!!!