I'm looking to make a small, portable seedball launcher for geurilla gardening, I was thinking something potato cannon or airsoft style might be a way to do it. I want it to auto-reload as I will attach it to my bike! I was thinking I could use small CO2 cartridges to power it. Any tips or better ideas? I imagine I need to build up the pressure to a critical point to "spring" the ball away, are there plans I could adapt?
I am visiting my dad’s house for a couple of weeks. My family has absolutely been eaten up by mosquitos and ticks. He lives “off grid” and doesn’t have power so I can’t plug in one of those big zapper things for the flying bugs and I was hoping maybe there were some good plants that might help deter them so my kids can play in his yard without being attacked so much. He wouldn’t maintain anything (last year his mower broke so he didn’t even mow his grass for a whole summer) so any recommendations that are super hardy would be appreciated.
I threw in a couple pics of the very first basketflower I’ve seen here in the 10 years I’ve lived near here. I threw a few cups of basketflower seed just this last winter since I had a great harvest from my pollinator garden at home. Anyhow, double win for me and whoever this guerrilla gardener is. I’m thinking if I should try to meet them at see if I can get in on helping take care of the space. What do y’all think?
Really enjoying the discourse in the comments on my last 2 posts. Some of y’all made some real solid points I can’t disagree with.
Let me refine my statements a bit this time.
Some… not all; Seed companies are scamming you by selling seeds at a extortionate profit margin.
Also Many monoculture seed companies have restricted the freedom of the commercial market by patenting various plant genetics thereby forcing independent farmers in poorer regions to sell off their land because they can no longer compete with big agriculture.
Do you agree or disagree and why.
Open discourse is vital to a functioning society and if you disagree with me I wanna hear what you have to say !
So I left some pots out with soil, but no plants, and I ended up getting some random plants in there. (Side note - if you want free native plants - literally just leave pots out. I got yellow woodsorrel and false daisy also growing, no idea where any of them came from). Anyway, this pokeweed started growing and because it is native I want to move it, but I don’t want it in my yard due to its toxicity. Would you guys recommend planting it somewhere? Maybe just like a wooded area somewhere near me where people don’t go?
Obviously slightly different than gardening, but does anyone have experience with this sort of thing? Is this a novel idea or reckless?
Important note before I begin: I have a black thumb. The only things I can keep alive are mothers of a thousand and I currently have a billion.
I bought a very charming 1960s condo 10 years ago and the HOA (Booooo!) has done an incredibly bad job of maintaining the extensive amount of random green beds on the property. It's been about 6 years since we've had working irrigation on the property as well. Right now, I have a bed right outside my front windows that has some kind of non-creeping variety of ivy in it. It looks ok for the most part, but I feel like it needs some love. Any suggestions for simple ways that (I can't eff up) to improve the health of the ivy bed and encourage better growth in some areas?
Also, there are some very pathetic bald beds on the property too that have soil in it that must be absolutely depleted of any nutrients. Is there anything I can plant or seed into desolate spaces that will have a fighting chance in direct easterly TX sun? Just trying to get some suggestions on what I can do that that's non-invasive, relatively simple, and won't require a ton of maintenance to help beautify mine and my neighbors' home.
Hey everyone — we’re building https://freecannabisseeds.online/ out of Humboldt County, California.
The goal is bigger than just mailing out a few seed packs. We want to create a useful resource that helps people find free or low-cost seeds wherever they are.
Right now we’re putting together a list of places people can look, including:
We’re doing this because seeds should be easier to access. A lot of people want to grow food, herbs, flowers, natives, or useful plants, but even small costs can stop people from getting started.
Humboldt has a long culture of growing, trading, seed saving, and helping each other out. We’re trying to keep that spirit going and make something useful for beginners, gardeners, and seed savers.
If you know of good free seed programs, seed libraries, swaps, or community resources, drop them here and I’ll look at adding them.