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- Category:
- Common Interest - Gardening
- Description:
Without permit or license, we plant seeds and seedlings
in all those neglected corners of public space.
Join us as we vandalise the city with nature! (And if you're wondering how much you need to know about gardening, the answer is "nothing." I knew nothing when I started!)
As always, if you've got plants or seedlings, soil amenders, soil or bottles of water, bring 'em along!
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Admins
- Ian
- Terry
- Andy (creator)
Officers
- Ian
- Ultimate Location-picker
- Terry
- Head GG Coordinator
Events
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- West End Plant
Bloor and Russett (One block West o...
Saturday, May 16 at 11:00am - West End Plant
Bloor and Russett (One block West o...
Saturday, May 16 at 11:00am - 2008 Kickoff/Planning Meeting
Centre for Social Innovation
Thursday, April 3 at 6:30pm
Basic Info
- Name:
- TPSC West End Guerilla Gardeners
- Category:
- Common Interest - Gardening
- Description:
Without permit or license, we plant seeds and seedlings
in all those neglected corners of public space.
Join us as we vandalise the city with nature! (And if you're wondering how much you need to know about gardening, the answer is "nothing." I knew nothing when I started!)
As always, if you've got plants or seedlings, soil amenders, soil or bottles of water, bring 'em along!
For more info, check out... (read more)- Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
Contact Info
- Email:
- Office:
- http://tpscguerillagardeners.blogspot.com/
- Location:
- Toronto, ON
Recent News
- News:
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Guerilla Watering
Please go by this year's gardens and water them pretty please!
Locations
Russet and Bloor (1 street west of Dufferin)
Eastern and Caroline
Planters on Bathurst south of St. Claire
Dundas East and George
Yonge St just north of Gerrard (west side)
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CHECK BACK IN AUGUST FOR DETAILS ABOUT:
Seed Collecting
Sept/Oct 2009
Fall Bulb Planting
September - Location TBD
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COMPLETED 2009
Seed Bomb Making and Sign Painting
May 3rd @ 2pm - 519 Community Centre, second floor
Location: 519 Church Street just north of Wellesley
BRING SEEDS IF YOU HAVE ANY LYING AROUND!!! WE WOULD LOVE THE DONATIONS!
SEED BOMBING
When - Thursday May 14 at 7pm
Where - Meet at the corner of King E and Queen E right at the bridge over the Don River. We'll attack the empty lots there and then head south to the Port Lands to bomb! If you are late, head West on King and South on St.Lawrence, West on Eastern and south on Cherry to hook up with us.
Who - Just bring yourselves & all your friends
What - Bring warm gloves, your camera, and your bike if you have one - if not there will be walkers.
SUCCESS!! 12 people and approximately 4 crappy looking lots
WEST END PLANTING
When - May 16th at 11am
Where - Meet at Dufferin Station at 11am to head over to the location together. Ian and I will be holding plants to identify ourselves. If you can't come until later please join us at the planting location at Bloor and Russett (one block West of Dufferin Station) where we will be digging up a storm.
First we'll have to get rid of some of the long grass that's taken over the place.... then we'll plant.
What - Bring plants (preferably perennials but annuals are lovely too), garbage bags, your trowels, shovels, picks, diggers and grass clippers, work gloves if you need them. Water (for the plants), mulch and compost will be provided. We love it when people take photos so please bring your cameras too!
Who - You and your friends, relatives, family... anyone who wants to plant!
SUCCESS AGAIN!! 25 people and one fantastic garden!
EAST END PLANTING
When: May 31st at 11AM
What: Between the sidewalk and the construction hoarding patches of weeds and grass will be removed, soil added, and plants planted.
How you can help: Be a guerrilla. Bring plants, yard waste bags, garbage bags, trowels, shovels, garden forks, and work gloves. Water (for the plants), mulch and compost will be provided. We love it when people take photos so please bring your cameras too!
Who - You and your friends, relatives, family... anyone who wants to help!
Where: Eastern Ave. at the foot of Caroline Ave.
Come in on the 501 Queen St car, get off at Caroline Ave., walk south to Eastern Ave. OR take the 72 Pape bus, North bus - get off at Carlaw and Eastern Ave., OR South bus - get off at Pape and Eastern Ave., walk east to Caroline Ave.
SOOOO many people came and the garden looked awesome.
UPTOWN PLANTING
When - 11am Sunday June 7th
Where - Meet at the south west corner of Bathurst and St. Clair
Who - You and anyone that you can mobilize!
What - Bring your trowls to this one... no big shovels are necessary since we are planting in planters.
We can also use some bright and beautiful annuals but it doesn't hurt to plant perennials as well so we don't have to come back next year. For the planters we will need smaller and lower growing plants so save your large bushes and trees for the next planting.
HUGE SUCCESS - we thought we would only be able to do two or three of the planters but in the end we had so many people and donations we did all 6!!!
DOWNTOWN PLANTING
Here are the details:
Where - The south east corner of Dundas east and George street. George Street is one street east of Jarvis.
When - June 14th at 11am
What - Bring your shovels, trowels, dirt, water, and PLANTS!! we don't have any big donations for this event so we can use every little plant you can donate... annuals, perennials, bushes, trees... herbs anything!
Who - Bring yourselves, your friends, your family and your neighbours.
CHANGE OF LOCATION!!!
Summer Solstice Night Planting
Where - Meet at the corner of College and Yonge (on the south west corner in front of the Tim Hortons)
When - 7:30 PM Sunday June 21th
Who - You and anyone that you can mobilize!
What - This is a garden we did last year early in the season and could use some sprucing up.
Bring trowels, weeders, shovels, gardening gloves, water, soil and annuals... we have perennials that were donated to the downtown planting and we weren't able to use them all, but we could use some beautiful annuals to add colour to the perennials.
If you want to join us late, walk south on Yonge Street on the west side and you will see us on the sidewalk before you get to Gerrard.
It was a great success!! More than 15 people and reporter and a film crew... what a turn out! Thanks Everyone for an amazing season.