LAGG is doing a seeding bombing using the metro this Friday night.
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Seed Bomb (Bar) Crawl
DATE: Feb 5, 2010
TIME: 6:30PM
LOCATION:
Metro Red Line
Starting at North Hollywood
Ending at 7th/Metro
We are super excited about this mission! It’s going to be a crazy challenge…but we like that.
Our mission is to ride the Red Line and at every stop plant, clean and throw seed bombs as we go. Our goal is to create 13 new spaces along the metro line and do it in record time. We will be at each stop 12 minutes or less!
Some things to note:
We will be RUNNING
We will be wearing evening attire (and tennis shoes)
You can do the entire ride or join us at a stop that’s convenient for you.
This WILL BE fun.
There is a lot of info for this mission, so please visit our website for all the details.
The key to this mission will be to have as many troop members as possible, so come ride with us!
February 1st, 2010 | Tags: Los Angeles guerrilla gardeinng, Seed Bombing, seed bombs | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
We had a great group of gardeners come out on Sunday to put in a beautiful drought tolerant succulent garden in Long Beach.
before
After
The spot wasn’t too large so it only took an hour to plant the entire garden! There were a few issues with the soil but I think it will be fine.Thanks everyone!!
All photos - Gary Farris
January 29th, 2010 | Tags: agave garden, drought tolerant garden, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach, Uncategorized | Leave a comment
We are putting in a garden in Long Beach on Sunday the 24th. At the entrance to the LA river bike trail at De Forest and Anaheim. It’s actually below the Anaheim bridge over the LA river. There is not a source for water for this spot so SoCal will be supplying the plants for this drought tolerant garden. No need to bring water this time with all the rain coming this week. Just bring your gloves and favorite hole digging tool but don’t worry if you don’t have any tools as SoCal will be bringing plenty to go around.
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January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Agaves, aloes, drought tolerant garden, Guerrilla Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening in Los Angeles county, long beach guerrilla garden, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach, Uncategorized | Comments (1)
I’m still working on details but it looks like there will be a dig in Long Beach on Sunday morning the 24th. I have several sites picked out but I have a little work to do before I figure out which one we’ll be working. I’ll be posting it through email and facebook but you can email me if you would like more details. bulbil321@socalguerrillagardening.org
January 10th, 2010 | Tags: agave garden, drought tolerant garden, Guerrilla Gardening, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach | Comments (2)
I had help from the city of Long Beach pulling out some over grown agaves at the Loynes guerrilla garden today. I met with Alex the new supervisor for the parks and recreation department and a crew from Aztec the contractor for that part of the city.
They helped me remove about 6 big Agave decipiens which they hauled away along with 4 bags of weeds I pulled before they showed up.
I brought over 60 large decipiens pups back to SCGG headquarters that I’ll pot up and plant later this year.
I also removed another bunch of Aloe Californias - more than 40 - as well as some more Aeoniums and a large Agave americana (below) all of which well be used in a guerrilla garden later this year. So that’s over 300 plants gleaned already from the Loynes garden this year. I’ll be doing a major planting at Loynes in the next few weeks.
I also stopped by my friends Hanks house and he gave me 4 large Agave attenuata that will also be used later this year. This year is off to a great start as I got a phone call from Adriana about a friend of hers that has a bunch succulents to donate. So it looks like this year might be as good as last for donations. I lost count but I know we received well over 1000 plants in donations in 09.
January 7th, 2010 | Tags: Agaves, aloes, gleaning, Guerrilla Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening in Los Angeles county, plant donations, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Donate plants for guerrilla gardening, Long Beach - Loynes, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Happy New Year!
This is the third try to put a guerrilla garden in at this spot. There are still a few plants from the first attempts. Hopefully “the third time is a charm” as they say. It was a spontaneous solo effort. I found myself in the mood to do something for the new year so I loaded the truck up yesterday after work and got out early this morning. It is just the first of many plantings at this location. The ground is still a little wet from Wednesdays rain and so it was easier to dig then in the summer. But this site is all fill dirt and it’s full of hundreds of large chunks of concrete, asphalt, and a tons of broken red bricks. You can’t dig a hole anywhere without striking some kind of foreign object. Next time I’ll won’t bring my best shovel.
Here’s an old before photo from a few years ago before they installed the lights. Someone stole the copper wire out of the poles the week they put them up and it took the government over 3 years to repair them. But they work now and the area was well lit even though the sun wasn’t up when I got there.
As you can see by the photos below there is a lot of room for more plants. It’s right off the 605 in Pico Rivera so I don’t know how many people would show up but I might have a group dig here soon.
I think an agave peace sign will look great in this area.
Future shade tree for the San Gabriel river bike trail.
January 1st, 2010 | Tags: agave garden, Guerrilla Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening in Los Angeles county, San Gabriel river bike trail, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Pico Rivera Guerrilla Garden, Uncategorized, Whittier Guerrilla Garden, socal guerrilla gardening | Comments (1)
I met Eric from Long Beach’s Parks and Rec. Department today at the Loynes garden. He’s in charge of the maintenance for that section of the city. I was scheduled to met with a work crew the cities contracts with for that part of town to get some help removing some large agaves that have grown to big for that garden. But there was a mix up and the crew didn’t show up. I met the crew chief, Robert, though and rescheduled the work crew for the 8th next month. Eric and Robert showed me how to use the sprinkler controller and turned the watering over to me. The city was actually over watering the garden and drowning a lot of plants.
I got quite a bit of work done while I was there. It was a cleaning and gleaning session. Picking up trash, pulling weeds, and gleaning plants that needed thinning out. I haven’t done much work at Loynes for a few years but next year I’m planning on making it better then ever. Now that I have control over the water again I’m sure the garden will make a big come back. I’ve already started picking out plants from SCGG’s nursery to put in that garden. I have several projects in the works and with that spot having sprinklers I can wait until the spring to do the replanting.
Here’s a bunch of plants I gleaned from Loynes today. I took out over 40 aloe California, 40+ aloe nobilis, and a bunch of aeoniums that something had chewed through the stems and left the tops laying on the ground. I brought them back to SCGG headquarters to pot up and get ready for a later planting either back at Loynes or in another guerrilla garden.
December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Agaves, aloes, desert garden, Guerrilla Gardening, Long Beach guerrilla gardening, socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, Long Beach guerrilla gardening | Leave a comment
There’s a new guerrilla garden in Norwalk, Ca. I’ve been eyeing this spot for a solo project for a long time. I finally got around to putting in the first 20 plants on Thanksgiving morning with lots more plants to come real soon. The garden is real close to SoCal Headquarters so it will be easy to take care of. Unfortunately someone took a plant a few days after the planting but I’ll replace it the next planting. These shots were taken the day after the rain and the plants are looking great.
December 8th, 2009 | Category: Curent projects, Guerrilla Garden in Norwalk, Uncategorized, socal guerrilla gardening | Leave a comment
We had a unbelievable turn out for the guerrilla gardening dig today in the LBC. Here’s a shot before we started working. You can see a pattern in the dirt where there once were plants.
Luckily for us there were no weeds so all we had to do was have fun laying out and planting the plants.
Photo Gary Farris
Doctor Trash (yes she is a real doctor) brought her baby boy along to help out. Photo by Jennifer Stroup
My friends Hank, Judi, and three generations of Dr. Julie’s family having a great time gardening together. Photo Gary Farris
Everyone had a great time in spite of the ground being pretty hard clay.
Peter saw us working and helped out with the planting. He lives around the corner and so he went home and got a cordless drill to repair the border. Peter works at the garage next door to the garden so he said he’d water and keep an eye on everything.
Val Zavala throwing the pickaxe.
Photo Gary Farris
This is Fern putting in the last plant in the Peace sign.
Most of the crew hung around long enough to get in the group photo. Thanks to everyone for helping out putting in a great garden.
November 9th, 2009 | Tags: socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach, Uncategorized | Comments (3)
On my way to the dig at the new garden we put in on Orange Ave. today I stop by the Willow Guerrilla Garden and took a few photos.
Both gardens look great. The plants had more than doubled since the planting last March. A few of the plants had mealy bugs so I sprayed them with some Safer insecticidal soap. By next summer this garden is going to be filled in and looking fantastic! I can’t wait to do more GGing with my friends Adriana and Hector in Wrigley.
November 8th, 2009 | Tags: socal guerrilla gardening | Category: Curent projects, New Guerrilla Garden in Long Beach, Uncategorized | Leave a comment
