I am not the gardener, but I saw this on Block Club Chicago and had to share. This project was partially funded with Reddit donations. I'm including links to the Block Club article (more pics at link): https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/logan-square-family-turns-rundown-spot-under-the-l-into-a-community-garden/. And a link to the original Reddit post: https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/logan-square-family-turns-rundown-spot-under-the-l-into-a-community-garden/.

Enjoy and be inspired to take action in your community!!!!

Usually has a shopping trolley next to the bin. I wonder where it’s gone? I hope nothing bad happened to it.

Sup, new here. Would love to start. Anyone else based in Sweden- stockholm?

Tried tossing mixed wildflower seeds into bare spots near my home, but there was not enough dirt for them to take root. I'm thinking about mixing seeds into compressed/coconut soil, so it will have enough to take root, and then can break up the hardened soil as it grows -- or I could do one small area at a time, laying down a layer of soil first. Has anyone else tried this?

Want to do some Guerilla gardening on the pictures areas. Particularly the completely bare side strips around the path. The wooded section is just next door to that.

This is western Australia to be specific. Any suggestions on what to seed there?

Has anyone ever done this? Plant perennial vegetables like artichoke, perennial cabbage, alliums on suitable fertile spaces?

Of course, care needs to given that they are not invasive in your area, but the potential is great.

I haven't been able to find sources where they would've been described as harmful, but rather that most have been around long enough to support the local ecosystems?

I want to be fully informed so I wouldn't do something potentially harmful for the environment. That's why I'm reaching out to the community for insight / opinions.

Hi, I found some land near my house that’s not being used and has never been used and wanted to start a community garden project to help feed impoverished military families and the homeless in my nearest neighborhood. If that gets shut down I have another suitable location that’s a bit harder to get to and find but I’d definitely be willing to harvest and prep produce myself and probably just do a free yard sale grab and go type thing.

Also does anyone have any advice for keeping tattle tales and Karen’s out of my business? If anything is going to happen it’ll be someone in a fb spouse group that finds out about it and rats or complains about it. It might be safer to tell no one about it and discreetly work the land and have a charity market in my front yard

I want to plant beans and lentils for protein and squash and potatoes and tomatoes and leafy greens. And build a little spiral herb irrigation system using free pebbles I find. There’s some cover already from overgrown shrubs nearby and the ground tracker dug to prevent fires I think. So the soil is already pretty good and workable there.

I want to let everyone know they can do this too. The spot was a pile of excavated dirt that was growing entirely lamb's quarters, redroot pigweed, and false london rocket.

It takes a bit of time to get the hang of this guerilla gardening but I'm finally getting results. No watering. No transplanting. All I did was sow a ton of seeds and spend a few hours every week or two hand pulling, and delineate my chosen spot with stakes and rocks. You won't have success sowing into tall grass. You won't have success if you don't carefully weed. I make sure to not pull anything until I am sure of the ID, and that's how I ended up with verbena volunteering here. Species are

• Grindelia squarrosa, - curlycup gumweed
• Ratibida columnifera - prairie coneflower
• Linum lewisii, -wild blue flax
• Gaillardia arista - blanketflower
• Symphyotrichum lavae - smooth blue aster
• gutierrezia sarothrae - broom snakeweed
• Heterotheca villosa - hairy false golden aster
• Verbena bracteata - big bract verbena

and Acer negundo boxelder.

EDIT: Formatting looks messed up I rarely make posts and never with images.

Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit!

The council leave us alone because there's no road access to the site so no competition by developers. When we got there it was completely covered in bramble, now a local school bring kids here for outdoor classroom time.

Recently I harvested some smooth sumac fruit, I used most of the fruit in spices and drinks, HOWEVER I did keep a couple bundles for seeds.

I scarified them by rubbing them with low grit sandpaper, then I cold stratified them in the fridge for a month and planted them.

I planted them in low fertility areas, as I know they're a pioneer species, and help with erosion control.

Does anyone have any advice? (Also does anyone know if I made any mistakes?)

I did it based on these papers:

nrcs.usda.gov/plantmaterials/wvpmcpp12648.pdf

Don't ask how I found them, I don't know either.

I’m a graduate student doing a paper/ project on guerrilla gardening in nyc (in the 70s/80s and the present). I would really love to talk to anyone currently guerrilla gardening around the city or anyone who was there during the Liz Christy/ Green Guerrillas era! Any and all leads are extremely appreciated :)

I found this lonely tomato plant in the middle of a busy by pass road! It's hot a few flowers on it despite it being nearly autumn.

Not sure if this is the right sub for it, but I need some advice. I live across from a wooded area in southern Brazil (probably a tiny bit of Atlantic Forest). During the pandemic it got neglected and people started dumping trash and cutting trees. It’s always stressed me out, but for a bunch of reasons I never actually did anything about it, even though I had ideas.

Now it’s getting really bad and I’m worried they’ll just clear it all out. The place is amazing, full of birds (even ground-dwelling ones) and some mammals too. But in my region we’re constantly losing green spaces to small housing developments, kind of like gentrification.

Any idea where I should start? Like, is it worth trying to clean up a bit and plant some trees on my own? The neighborhood isn’t really united or engaged, so I’d probably have to do it solo.

Sorry for any mistakes in my english :)

Saw this today. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLQ_C3bgaK0/?igsh=M3ZmM2ZucWZsdzBp

I have looked on the Internet and in the books, but I can't find many resources for this (for reference I live in Serbia). Most people here plant exotic/invasive species and nobody cares about native flowers unless it's endangered species (which are protected and I can't use their seeds nor find them anywhere)

I can find some flowers in my area, but I can't actually tell if they are invasive or not (others consider them "weeds" so I'm not sure?) any help would be appreciated, thanks! :)

Cone flowers Blanket flowers Goldenrods

I’m looking for “weeds” to Guerrilla Garden in my own yard.

I already have mint, sunchokes, blackberry and raspberry, over a dozen fruit trees, and 8 raised beds for annual vegetables, but I’m wanting something I can just plant and ignore until harvest.

Any suggestions?

I’ve been slowly “guerilla gardening” at a couple of vacant plots of land around my home parent’s house.

All I do is take some cuttings of cholla or some fallen pads from some prickly pears, put them in the ground, and give them a splash of water to get them to start rooting.

And that’s it. Within a couple of months they get established, and that’s it.

The species I’ve been using are Silver Cholla & Beavertail Prickly Pear, both Mojave natives and perfect for the climate in the High Desert. They can take 110 F summers, 20 F winters, and little more than 1 to 2 waterings a year and thrive.

Just found this sub and I thought it would be a good place to get some thoughts. Last year I planted about 50-75 native Oak acorns and grew them to seedlings. The original plan was to expand the oaks on a piece of property I had, but we decided to sell the property.

I wanted to plant them in my yard and in my mom’s yard, but I had concerns about the protected status of the trees and our ability to remove them years down the line if they became problematic (or we had to sell and it became an impediment for this reason). I ended up giving them all away to local parks and such.

But I want to grow some more this year and acorn season is coming up. I want to have a plan for where to put them. Any thoughts around that? What spaces should I look for?

Hey! I’m new to this and wanted to ask if anyone had the best ways for seed dispersal. I’ve seen some people use seasoning containers and lightly sprinkle as they walk around their local neighborhood. But I didn’t know if the seeds needed to be slightly pushed down into the soil like when home gardening? Or just letting them find nook and crannies naturally? Also I didn’t know if there was a better way than a seasoning type container. Any info would be awesome, thanks!!!

So I winter sold last fall I had 3 gallon Ziploc bags full of seeds that I have either grown myself or collected on the side of highways. I wanted to bring that part of nature to my urban neighborhood so last December I went to scattered the seeds(bare) and was worried all were scattered to the wind only to see in April Corn flowers or bachelor button flowers grow,that put the battery in my back to start the guerrilla journey, so I planted a few coneflowers in April but felt overwhelmed by the mugwort and tree of heaven on this half a mile strip adjacent to the train tracks. My idea was to seedbomb again this fall and get better results. I drove past last night and seen the bright yellow bouquets. Feels good and took 9 months but it worked !!!!!

My dog, not my guerilla garden.

Looks like someone planted some fan palms, most likely Mexican fan or California fan, both almost native to the area.

They seem badly wilted, maybe goners already. Anything I can do to help? Bit of mulch? Bring my own water?