Guerrilla Gardening

**fpconsulting** · 06-23-2012, 07:16 PM

Guerrilla Gardening

This type of gardening will come in really handy after a disaster. If your garden is out in the open then you can become a target of people who have no food. One way of solving this is to plant a gorilla garden.

What is Guerrilla Gardening?

It is a method of planting so that your food crops are concealed from the public. The best way to do this is to plant in a heavily wooded area where your crops will receive enough sunlight to grow. You’re able to plant almost any food you’d like, but some food will be harder to hide than others.

Steps to starting a Guerrilla Garden

Find a wooded location with good dirt and sun. If you find where you would like to plant, but there isn’t enough sunlight, then it may be necessary to cut down some trees to open up the canopy.
Plant the seeds in a non-traditional manner. Do not plant them in neat little rows where they would be recognizable when they are in the growing/harvesting stages.
Do not till up sections of land where it would be noticeable. It’s best to simply work the dirt in a very small area.

What you can plant?

I have planted vegetables, fruit vines/ bushes, and even fruit trees in many different locations. I find the easiest to hide are cucumbers, peas, beans, okra and other leafy low-to-the-ground plants.

Some tricks

If you plant your runner peas and beans near small trees or vines, then you can train them to grow up the nearby object.
If you have a deer camp or bug-out location, you can try this out by buying some cheap seeds from local stores and see how those do before you plant your Guerrilla Garden.
Spread your crops out in larger area. The more spread out, the easier it is for passers-by to think your crops are simply wild plants.
Use fertilizer. I use Miracle Grow, you can use your favorite.

Notes

Your crop yields will not be as much as standard planting styles due to less sunlight.

You can overcome this by planting more seeds and using varieties that are shade tolerant.

So get out and try using these gardening methods. Send us comments and pictures of your Guerrilla Garden.

Get prepared and stay safe.

**Rick** · 06-23-2012, 07:26 PM

Thanks. We have a number of threads on clandestine gardening. Here are a couple of links for you.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...tine+gardening

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...tine+gardening

**hunter63** · 06-23-2012, 07:56 PM

Deer will love ya....around camp......
Good advice though.....just speaking from past experiance.

**mountainmark** · 06-23-2012, 09:17 PM

Perenials would be more favorable than annuals. I like spreading Jerusalem Artichokes around. They take over an area and require no maintenance. And yes...... Deer love them

**ClayPick** · 06-24-2012, 06:27 AM

I imagine that invisible deer fencing could be quite useful and would attract very little attention.

**hunter63** · 06-24-2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by ClayPick

I imagine that invisible deer fencing could be quite useful and would attract very little attention.

What invisible deer fencing?........

**1stimestar** · 06-25-2012, 02:26 AM

I hid my garden from moose. Once they find it, you can never have a garden there again. It was a tiny little clearing in the trees. Worked well.

**Rick** · 06-25-2012, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by Hunter

What's invisible deer fencing?........

It's designed to keep out invisible deer. You know, the kind that always show up during hunting season but are never around at any other time.

http://www.longfence.com/Residential/Other/Deer-Fence

**hunter63** · 06-25-2012, 11:46 AM

I guess I did see some of sorts of deer fence advertised......... and didn't realize it worked for invisible deer as well.

It's a know fact "up nort, don' ca know, ya" that when a deer gets shot in the woods, leaves behind a deer ghost.....and normal deer can walk thru, and hide rendering them 'invisible".
This explains the reason you can be looking at a spot in the wood, and all of a sudden "der he is!" when he wern't der before...........And of course just a sudden is the "der he was....gone!"
This is a really a PITA to deer hunters, as weather and saloon conditions seem to effect the the amount of these happenings.

Now for that last couple of years, a herd of albino deer have been frequenting our area of "Da hunt".......causing many experienced hunter to give up fermented beverages, poker, beans and all sorts of sundry activities......and go to church....Ya know just in case.

Personally I head for Lake Shore Tavernacle, and set up my stand on the corner stool, so I can see both doors.

PS, At the communal garden at "The Place' electric fence has been added,.......And is located between two field corn fields......But of course the deer and coons seem to know the difference.

**finallyME** · 06-25-2012, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by fpconsulting

Guerrilla Gardening

This type of gardening will come in really handy after a disaster. If your garden is out in the open then you can become a target of people who have no food. One way of solving this is to plant a gorilla garden.

What is Guerrilla Gardening?

It is a method of planting so that your food crops are concealed from the public. The best way to do this is to plant in a heavily wooded area where your crops will receive enough sunlight to grow. You’re able to plant almost any food you’d like, but some food will be harder to hide than others.

Steps to starting a Guerrilla Garden

Find a wooded location with good dirt and sun. If you find where you would like to plant, but there isn’t enough sunlight, then it may be necessary to cut down some trees to open up the canopy.
Plant the seeds in a non-traditional manner. Do not plant them in neat little rows where they would be recognizable when they are in the growing/harvesting stages.
Do not till up sections of land where it would be noticeable. It’s best to simply work the dirt in a very small area.

What you can plant?

I have planted vegetables, fruit vines/ bushes, and even fruit trees in many different locations. I find the easiest to hide are cucumbers, peas, beans, okra and other leafy low-to-the-ground plants.

Some tricks

If you plant your runner peas and beans near small trees or vines, then you can train them to grow up the nearby object.
If you have a deer camp or bug-out location, you can try this out by buying some cheap seeds from local stores and see how those do before you plant your Guerrilla Garden.
Spread your crops out in larger area. The more spread out, the easier it is for passers-by to think your crops are simply wild plants.
Use fertilizer. I use Miracle Grow, you can use your favorite.

Notes

Your crop yields will not be as much as standard planting styles due to less sunlight.

You can overcome this by planting more seeds and using varieties that are shade tolerant.

So get out and try using these gardening methods. Send us comments and pictures of your Guerrilla Garden.

Get prepared and stay safe.

Excellent ideas. Got any pictures?

**Rick** · 06-25-2012, 11:59 AM

The problem with electric fences is the fact that animals won't touch but humans just can't resist. Animals can't read the sign so guess who it's for? As Bill Engvall says, "Here's your sign."

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**crashdive123** · 06-25-2012, 04:24 PM

Guerrilla Gardening

This type of gardening will come in really handy after a disaster. If your garden is out in the open then you can become a target of people who have no food. One way of solving this is to plant a gorilla garden.

What is Guerrilla Gardening?

It is a method of planting so that your food crops are concealed from the public. The best way to do this is to plant in a heavily wooded area where your crops will receive enough sunlight to grow. You’re able to plant almost any food you’d like, but some food will be harder to hide than others.

Steps to starting a Guerrilla Garden

Find a wooded location with good dirt and sun. If you find where you would like to plant, but there isn’t enough sunlight, then it may be necessary to cut down some trees to open up the canopy.
Plant the seeds in a non-traditional manner. Do not plant them in neat little rows where they would be recognizable when they are in the growing/harvesting stages.
Do not till up sections of land where it would be noticeable. It’s best to simply work the dirt in a very small area.

What you can plant?

I have planted vegetables, fruit vines/ bushes, and even fruit trees in many different locations. I find the easiest to hide are cucumbers, peas, beans, okra and other leafy low-to-the-ground plants.

Some tricks

If you plant your runner peas and beans near small trees or vines, then you can train them to grow up the nearby object.
If you have a deer camp or bug-out location, you can try this out by buying some cheap seeds from local stores and see how those do before you plant your Guerrilla Garden.
Spread your crops out in larger area. The more spread out, the easier it is for passers-by to think your crops are simply wild plants.
Use fertilizer. I use Miracle Grow, you can use your favorite.

Notes

Your crop yields will not be as much as standard planting styles due to less sunlight.

You can overcome this by planting more seeds and using varieties that are shade tolerant.

So get out and try using these gardening methods. Send us comments and pictures of your Guerrilla Garden.

Get prepared and stay safe.

How many wooded locations have you done this in, and how does your yield compare to conventional gardening? I know that you said the yields aren't as high as conventional crops, but want to know based on your experience doing this how much of an increase in planting is required.

**kyratshooter** · 06-25-2012, 05:22 PM

The reinvention of agriclture.

This is the type of gardening done by the Native Americans in the eastern U.S. and by the early settlers. Our nation was not always an open land of meadows and pastures.

The method was to girddle the trees so they would shed their leaves, then burn the brush from the forest floor.

The Eastern Indians would mound up hills of dirt and incorperate orgainic matter as fertilizer, the hill was usually about knee high and 3' in diameter. They would plant about a dozen corn seeds in the hill along with runner beans and squash or pumpkins.

The corn would grow, the runner beans would climb the corn and the squah would cover the ground and hold down on the weeds.

I did a planting like this for the grandkids before my wife passed away. They loved their "Indian garden", espically the multicolored corn I had planted.

The young boys were tasked with keeping the racoons and other critters out of the crops and the men welcomed the deer in the gardens as easy pickins.

The Indians would move their villiage every generation to find new soil. Even now in the eastern U.S. there are place names like Old Fields or Old villiage and New Villiage that speak of this practice.

I have also seen slash and burn in the central and South American areas. They have to move their fields every few years to maintain fertitity of the soil.

Yield is usually very low compared to row cropping, but it is a yield.

We may one day be refering to these as "outlaw gardens". There are folk being harassed for planting gardens in their urban spaces and the survival sites go bonkers when it happens.

I once lost the entire yield of the first three rows of a good sweet corn crop to "garden raiders". They caught me gone from home and stripped the rows next to the road in less than two hours. I was not a happy homesteader!

**Rick** · 06-25-2012, 06:19 PM

You should put up a sign.

Zee mays Test Plot
All Plants Treated with
DiHydrogen Oxide

**oldtrap59** · 06-25-2012, 06:28 PM

The idea of planting corn, beans and squash on a mound or hill that Ky mentioned is what many gardeners now call the 3 sisters planting system. I have used it many times where I had extra space and wanted to grow something other then just squash in a given area.As far as the guerillia garden idea I believe it would work. I plant areas every year to feed deer with beets,turnips,field peas,corn,and oats. Only problem I see with your idea fp is that the critters have no problem finding these small plots so doubt they wouldn't find your guerillia plots and clean em out. IMO.

Oldtrap

**ClayPick** · 06-25-2012, 08:21 PM

Deciduous forests have a good source of fertilizer. Find the spots where the prevailing winds pile up leaves, there will be piles of leaf mold underneath. Fish is a good natural fertilizer if you have no racoons around. It would give up your location though.

**nell67** · 06-25-2012, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by hunter63

I guess I did see some of sorts of deer fence advertised......... and didn't realize it worked for invisible deer as well.

It's a know fact "up nort, don' ca know, ya" that when a deer gets shot in the woods, leaves behind a deer ghost.....and normal deer can walk thru, and hide rendering them 'invisible".
This explains the reason you can be looking at a spot in the wood, and all of a sudden "der he is!" when he wern't der before...........And of course just a sudden is the "der he was....gone!"
This is a really a PITA to deer hunters, as weather and saloon conditions seem to effect the the amount of these happenings.

Now for that last couple of years, a herd of albino deer have been frequenting our area of "Da hunt".......causing many experienced hunter to give up fermented beverages, poker, beans and all sorts of sundry activities......and go to church....Ya know just in case.

Personally I head for Lake Shore Tavernacle, and set up my stand on the corner stool, so I can see both doors.

PS, At the communal garden at "The Place' electric fence has been added,.......And is located between two field corn fields......But of course the deer and coons seem to know the difference.

Hunter,I am not standing anywhere near you when the lightening comes......