Our neighbour's grenadilla vine has provided lots of good eating in the past few weeks, but we haven't got to all the fallen fruit in time. During this morning's cleaning binge (amazing what impending lunch with in-laws can do) I found a very wrinkly specimen lurking in the fruit bowl; on opening it turned out to be almost completely dried out and inedible. So the girls and I, armed with miniature yoghurt tubs full of seeds and pointy sticks for hole-digging, went to the neighbourhood park this afternoon and planted hopefully all the way along the fence. The park doesn't get watered so it's a long shot, but I'm hoping that a good wet winter and the natural resilience (weediness, even) of the grenadilla will see at least one or two vines snaking along the fence come next summer. We like the idea of providing free refreshments at the bus stop. Plus, the sheer gorgeous unlikeliness of the flowers demands that they be planted frequently:
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Guerilla Gardening
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Great stuff. I've put a link to your blog on the Community forum at my website http://www.GuerrillaGardening.org
Feel free to share updates here if you like.
All the best
Richard
What a fantastic idea! Perhaps, instead of rooting out stray mulberry trees in my garden, I'll sneak them into a public park somewhere :).
Thanks Richard and Sched5! I'm feeling inspired right now, have been eyeing tomato pips and pawpaws and etc. Only thing is the watering; the rule will have to be, as it is my own garden, "if it lives it can stay".
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