AKG084: On Guerrilla Gardening

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The traffic island my parents guerrilla garden

There’s more armchair gardening going on this week, with a look at On Guerrilla Gardening by Richard Reynolds. We find out what is (and what isn’t!) guerrilla gardening, why guerrilla gardeners exist and what they do. For more information, have a look at the online bibliography or the guerrilla gardening website. And if you’re planning on doing a bit of guerilla gardening yourself then check out this advice from the Green Streets program in Vancouver.

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Sprouting seeds in recycled packaging

The AKG Sprouts are sprouting some more seeds this week – cress, or other members of the cabbage family. This time all you really need is a tray or saucer, some tissue paper and some seeds! For more information on sprouting seeds, go back and listen to one of the really early episodes – episode 4 was about growing indoor salads.

AKG listeners this week have been talking about the Gardening Conversations podcast from North County Public Radio, which is available via iTunes (or if you follow the link you can get the feed address). And about making solar food dryers. And Mark is going to be making an appearance on Channel 4’s Come Dine with Me on Sunday 1st March.

And there are two gardening programmes to watch out for here in the UK. Grow Your Own Drugs starts on March 2nd (it’s a 6-part series) and Sissinghurst has already started.

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Posted 27 February 2009, 19:43.  

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