{"id":962,"date":"2011-02-26T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T09:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2012-02-02T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T09:06:55","slug":"a-little-guerrilla-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/a-little-guerrilla-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A LITTLE GUERRILLA GARDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[962]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-964\" title=\"garden-february-2011-nature-strip\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Nature strip pre guerrilla gardening, Melbourne, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-pitch-fork.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[962]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-965\" title=\"garden-february-2011-nature-strip-pitch-fork\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-pitch-fork.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Removing grass around tree in the nature strip, Melbourne, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-digging.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[962]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-966\" title=\"garden-february-2011-nature-strip-digging\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-digging.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Digging a garden bed in the nature strip, Melbourne, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-bricks-newspaper.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[962]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-967\" title=\"garden-february-2011-nature-strip-bricks-newspaper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-bricks-newspaper.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Laying a brick edge and lining the bed with newspaper to prevent weeds coming through, Melbourne, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-marigolds.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[962]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-968\" title=\"garden-february-2011-nature-strip-marigolds\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-marigolds.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Marigolds planted into my guerrilla garden in the nature strip, Melbourne, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-circle.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[962]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-969\" title=\"garden-february-2011-nature-strip-circle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-february-2011-nature-strip-circle.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"My finished nature strip guerrilla garden planted with marigolds and herbs, Melbourne, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having read a little about <a title=\"guerrilla gardening\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guerrillagardening.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">guerrilla gardening<\/a> I was inspired to put some prime north facing land to use. After all it is just there at our doorstep, it seems like such a waste! I&#8217;ve started small, due to urgings from Dylan, but I have much bigger plans for our humble nature strip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Having read a little about guerrilla gardening I was inspired to put some prime north facing land to use. After all it is just there at our doorstep, it seems like such a waste! I&#8217;ve started small, due to urgings from Dylan, but I have much bigger plans for our humble nature strip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[221,220,160,145,134],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","tag-flemington","tag-flemington-earthbag-garden","tag-flowers","tag-guerrilla-gardening","tag-herbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}