Re: food in odd spaces -- back where I used to live there's a stretch of freeway that passes by a field where homeless people gather. There's lot of trees and bushes and such, and in general people leave them alone.
The cool thing is that someone must have spit a pomegranate seed back there once, because for about a mile up and down this side of the freeway there are pomegranate trees. Not bushes; trees, ten feet tall, loaded with pomegranates. Enough to feed half the city. And the more fruit falls, the more new trees there are next year.
It's beautiful in the spring and summer, when a swath of red flowers blanket the side of the road, and in the fall, when thousands of pomegranates can be seen from the freeway.
You offering? All it takes is a seed bomb or spitting seeds out by the side of the road in otherwise neglected areas. I'm already seeding out sunflowers, nasturtiums, pea vines, beans, and hazelnuts. I don't know if pomegranates will grow wild here, but you could give it a try.
Theoretically there are dwarf pomegranate trees that are hardy to our zone. I've yet to get one to actually grow, though.
I have a bunch of sumac seeds I'm planning on spreading around out here. I have some of those other seeds too.
Apple trees would be interesting. It's not as though there's a shortage of apple seeds. Even if the apples weren't good for hand eating they would be good in applesauce, with a bit of sugar.
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The cool thing is that someone must have spit a pomegranate seed back there once, because for about a mile up and down this side of the freeway there are pomegranate trees. Not bushes; trees, ten feet tall, loaded with pomegranates. Enough to feed half the city. And the more fruit falls, the more new trees there are next year.
It's beautiful in the spring and summer, when a swath of red flowers blanket the side of the road, and in the fall, when thousands of pomegranates can be seen from the freeway.
We need something like that here.
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I have a bunch of sumac seeds I'm planning on spreading around out here. I have some of those other seeds too.
Apple trees would be interesting. It's not as though there's a shortage of apple seeds. Even if the apples weren't good for hand eating they would be good in applesauce, with a bit of sugar.
I like the term "stealth gardener" myself. :D