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Guerilla Gardening is a type of nonviolent statement to bring about change in your community. It is just more accurately described by Wikipedia...
"Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of nonviolent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture. Activists take over ("squat") an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or 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."
This is a guide to how I planted my first guerilla tree and everything I used in order to get it to this new location.
"Guerrilla gardening is political gardening, a form of nonviolent direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists. It is related to land rights, land reform, and permaculture. Activists take over ("squat") an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or 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."
This is a guide to how I planted my first guerilla tree and everything I used in order to get it to this new location.
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For my tree I used several items to get it, transport it and plant it into an unoccupied space.
I used:
A shovel
a Camelbak
a camera phone
an open field
a place to steal a tree from
and of course... Common sense.
I used:
A shovel
a Camelbak
a camera phone
an open field
a place to steal a tree from
and of course... Common sense.
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May I add it to my "plants" group?
Perhaps it will bring more negative comments to this 'ible, it sure has been the subject of some high criticism so far.
Of course some people may abuse it, but that is their choice, and if it leads to their death, then natural selection has taken place.
Here you go photophippie. I didn't want to clutter up your instructable but felt that you were right in that discussing this is a good idea.
Deciduous ivies like Boston Ivy and Virginia Creeper are okay; but the evergreen English Ivy is super-invasive, eventually swamping and strangling trees and whole forests. If left untrimmed for 5-6 years, it "fruits" with evil-looking poisonous berries, which don't kill the birds that eat them until after they've passed through the bird's system and been deposited elsewhere, further spreading the Ivy Menace. Worst of all, it can live just about forever.
Don't plant English Ivy! Anywhere. Ever. Please.
DESCRIPTION:
*) A banano is an underground root structure that, every now and then, shoots up a pseudo-stem that becomes what you call a banana tree. Depending on the species (and there are hundreds of species other than the one single species eaten in the United States, Canada and Europe), the pseudo-stem might grow between one and six meters before bearing fruit and drying up.
PROS:
1) While the pseudo-stems only live between six months and a couple of years, the root structure can live for a good hundred years.
2) A healthy, adult banano always has several pseudo-stems at different stages of growth. The more I've seen is 18 or so.
CONS:
1) When a pseudo-stem bears fruit, it doesn't give it gradually: You first see how it shoots a flower, then you see how the flower begins arcing down, then you see how the flower becomes hundreds of juvenile fruits within some ten days, and then you see how all the tiny fruits develop at the same pace and ripen within days of each others. You haven't ended up eating a few bananas a day for months: you end up having to eat your own weight worth of bananas within a week.
2) The gross variety of banana varieties makes any other fruit seem plain and everyday-the-same. Bananas vary in size, shape, colour, texture, hardness, ripe-point, sugar content, acidity/alkalinity and use. One might look like oblong red grapes and nearly seem to made out of honey and butter, some others might as well be potatoes for how low their sugar content is and how high their cooking time is as well. Some have to be cooked while still fairly green, because they dissolve into useless mush when ripe. A few varieties allow you to dry them and turn them into fuor. A Mexican variety is even called apple-banana because it tastes like apple. In the end, most Western nations are accustomed to a single species and may not even touch a different one.
3) Banana-sap is an extremely powerful brown-to-black dye, that comes on clear, oxydates in the air and holds. I have a few 9 year old stains on one of my favorite kicking-around shirts, so this natural dye holds really fast.
4) Bananos tend to kill all vegetation around them. If it wasn't enough that banano sap is a very good dye when dry, if it wasn't enough that it has leaves measuring in excess of 2 meters by thirty centimeters, bananos are by definition subterranean plants, so they can simply flush out competing plants.
5) As the pseudo-stems are pretty much disposable, they rot, completely. They stink and grow all sorts of insect larvae.
6) If you wish to see a species of spider you've never seen before, go check the bananos. Tarantulas and jumping spiders are particularly fond of the habitat.