SeedGASM

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

If you are really going to do this, then I would mix your seeds in with a bit of dry fertilizer and put them in a ziplock bag then sprinkle the combination wherever.  That will hep the seeds grow in places other stuff hasn't or won't.

[LMNO]

If you wanted more Mindfuck potential, with a little planning you could design patterns or spell out words; uniform-colored flowers with high contrast to the area around it would work best.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

There is this group here in St. Louis who plant daffodil bulbs along the side of the highway in smiley face shapes. 

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I wonder what seeds are best to poke in there...? what plants will need the least amount of care possible, and can grow in filthy stressful conditions?

Sjaantze does landscaping and has a pretty extensive knowledge of plants... maybe she has some ideas on plants that would grow well in rough conditions...

[Iron Sulfide]

If you wanted more Mindfuck potential, with a little planning you could design patterns or spell out words; uniform-colored flowers with high contrast to the area around it would work best.

Damn you for beating me to this.

[Iron Sulfide]

I wonder what seeds are best to poke in there...? what plants will need the least amount of care possible, and can grow in filthy stressful conditions?

Sjaantze does landscaping and has a pretty extensive knowledge of plants... maybe she has some ideas on plants that would grow well in rough conditions...

Cram:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hardy+plants&aq=f&oq=

for a few ideas...

realistically, most plants that have a good cold/frost resistence are ideal. Also, low water-need plants work rather well. Also, cross check your seeds for the best times to plant, which varies from region to region. Yonkers is going to be vastly different growing conditions from the San Joaquin Valley.


Also also:
Carrots and the like, while practical, don't catch many eyes. Perhaps something like a Free Food patch with a perimeter of catchy, flashy flowers or something. Even just a sign in the area will alert the hungry that edibles are present. Personally, i have about 7 cherry tomato plants i'm planting in a local park where bums and such hang out a lot (i had this idea during the winter, and similar ones previously, but thought it too hippy for this board...alas). They'll have food starting around mid-summer from these plants (If they survive). the best part here is that cherry tomatoes are so prolific, just a few plants this year will mean quite a few more next year.

Okay, so i like plants. Call me a Volks Vegan.

[Crazzee]

Heh. I'm not sure about types, or whether or not the few I've got planted are going to survive long enough to actually sprout up. I should get some bulbs, they pretty much survive on their own, it seems. My mom's got a bunch of them, and without ever watering them, they all manage to sprout up every year.

[Triple Zero]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_gardening anyone?

also, about planting stuff into patterns, I think a whila ago I read in O:MF an idea to plant thicker, longer grass in letters or shapes in grass fields. Takes a few weeks before it appears, but after that it's incredibly hard to remove, even for years to follow. It's probably also considered vandalism on public property.

[Crazzee]

also, about planting stuff into patterns, I think a whila ago I read in O:MF an idea to plant thicker, longer grass in letters or shapes in grass fields. Takes a few weeks before it appears, but after that it's incredibly hard to remove, even for years to follow. It's probably also considered vandalism on public property.

Wait, how do you do that? Just more grass seed, or do you mean a different kind of grass?

[Cramulus]

It's probably also considered vandalism on public property.

yeah I bet you're right


but getting a vandalism ticket for planting flowers ? that's kind of rad!    in some sense

[Madigan T Nubilous]

Seed Bombing video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5TKNmeFRU4

[fomenter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_gardening anyone?

also, about planting stuff into patterns, I think a whila ago I read in O:MF an idea to plant thicker, longer grass in letters or shapes in grass fields. Takes a few weeks before it appears, but after that it's incredibly hard to remove, even for years to follow. It's probably also considered vandalism on public property.

interesting idea, long dark grass in a short light colored lawn or vice versa, spelling out words or pictures..

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Watermelons!

I have decided to go with watermelons. 

[Iron Sulfide]

just found my unused stash of seeds. watermelons, cantelopes, peas, tomatoes, peppers to name a few.

april-june seems to be the best all-around time frame with some of my seeds prefering mid may. awesome timing i guess.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Reference Xeriscaping for ideas on plants that won't need as much water as most garden variety plants. It's been designed for water conservation concepts, but it looks like it would transfer to seedGASMing as well.