Guerilla Gardening

Yummy has started a Guerrilla Gardening group in DC. Their website is http://dcguerillagardeners.blogspot.com/.

I made shirts for the two of us. I intend to talk about how I did that one of these days.

Sunday they had their second event. It was a an intersection that's trying not to be shifty and shady. Nice apartment buildings sit on opposite corners and scary places on the other two corners. We were working on one of the scary places.

It was, once upon a time, a car repair shop. It's close now and their lot is largely fenced off. At the corner the fence goes diagonally so there's some space that looked bad but was workable. The ground was hard enough that we had to just scrape the surface first to get the grass out. Then we started going down. Bit by bit, little by little, we softened things up enough to dig some more. Bricks and chunks of asphalt came up all over the place. So did old seat covers, throttles, wires, spark plug caps, some bits of metal that probably lined a windshield, and some police crime scene tape. With time it became clear that the area we were hacking up used to be a driveway. Once you got to the side of the driveway the soil was much softer.

Over the course of three and a half hours we got the tiny lot dug up and replanted.

I'll post more pictures later, but you can see Yummy's pictures here.