wonderindesignR: It's Seeds Time!

Seed Bombing ?? double Dutch to me well until today anyway . I found out so much about this type of thing and cant believe that something that has become so well known and wide spread since it first began in the 70s is still something which alot of people haven't heard of .

Seed Bombing :
is a technique of introducing vegetation to land by throwing or dropping compressed clods of soil containing live vegetation. Often, seed bombing projects are done with arid or off-limits (for example, privately-owned) land.

its also known as " seed grenade " , it was first used by Liz Christy in 1973 when she started the "Green Guerrillas". The first seed grenades were made from condoms filled with local wildflower seeds, water and fertilizer. They were tossed over fences onto empty lots in New York City in order to make the neighborhoods look better. It was the start of the guerrilla gardening movement.

http://www.lizchristygarden.org/

In 1973 a local resident named Liz Christy and a group of gardening activists known as the Green Guerillas were planting window boxes, vacant lots with ‘seed bombs’ and tree pits in the area. They saw the large rubble-strewn lot as a potential garden and in December went to the City to find a way to gain official use of the land. Volunteers hauled the garbage and rubble out, spread donated topsoil, installed a fence and began planting.
All pictures sourced from : http://www.lizchristygarden.org/lcbh_files/historicphoto.htm

pictures below are of the construction of the first guerilla garden in new york ,