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phorbin · 20-04-2014, 01:22 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

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Does anyone here plant in areas that they are not authorized to plant?

This year, I had a lot of little raspberry shoots out in the yard, and I
decided to dig them up and plant them instead of just mowing them down.
There is a park near here that had an section that was used for dumping old
broken up concrete and leaves vacuumed off the streets. The surrounding
area has improved a lot, and they no longer dump stuff there, but they
never really cleaned it up. So, I planted raspberries in several places.
My hope is that they'll spread. That was about a week ago.

Then today I got my replacement tree from Gurney's for the one that died (a
Goldrush). For some reason, they threw in an extra free tree, a Pixie
Crunch. Lovely apples, but the two I have are impossible to keep totally
free of rust because there are lots of cedar trees on this block.

Have you guessed where I'm going? Yep, I took the tree to the park and
planted it. I am the guerilla gardener.

I don't know apples from apples...

It may just be a matter of good customer relations since one died but unless
you have other apples on your place or near your property... you may need the
other as a pollinator variety so your favoured tree will set fruit or will
fruit more abundantly.

I'd suggest checking it out ASAP.