Green Daily

In the secret cover of dark night, with seed and trowel, gardeners are busy planting public spaces and barren plots of urban land green. The motive behind the activities of these green revolutionaries? To transform the blight of orphaned urban ground green with flowers and vegetable gardens. One green urban gardening activist maintains Guerrilla Gardening.org, as a web meeting place for other like-minded green guerrilla gardeners. From Dublin, Ireland to Portland, Oregon these folks are fighting with flowers and veggies.

Guerrilla Gardening.org offers tips to get started in this less than legal activity. Of course, as they point out, "when you are a guerrilla, there are no rules." The twelve step guide is simply a primer of lessons learned. First, find a patch of neglected public space. Plan a mission. Next, find a cheap supply of seeds or plants native to the area. Wearing reasonable shoes for gardening, off you go. For areas not easily accessible, use seed bombs. Seed bombs are seeds wrapped in clay and soil.

Presented by botanist, broadcaster, and environmentalist David Bellamy, London guerrilla gardeners took first place in the Most Wildlife Friendly category in the London in Bloom 2007 competition. Although the garden started as a guerrilla gardening effort, it is now classified as a legally-recognized green space.