Guerilla Gardening is the ever-growing but always underground trend of cultivating land that is not your own. Usually this is done under the cover of darkness and in highly trafficked areas. Why? Because the whole point is to re-beautify the run down or cement-clad areas of our Earth that people have unfortunately deemed “ugly” and “beyond hope”.

Before you get started guerilla gardening, you’re going to need to arm yourself with a few basic weapons…

Seed Balls

Seed balls are the newest and most simplistic weapon in your guerilla gardening bag-o-tricks. They’re simply balls of red clay, compost or dirt, and seeds. You can make them for mere pennies and throw them wherever you can find empty land, whether it be an abandoned lot or a tiny crack in the sidewalk.

Planters and Window Boxes

This WikiHow on How to Get Started Guerilla Gardening has a great idea if you’re having trouble finding a suitable place for gardening, construct some small planters and hang them on telephone poles, buildings, fences, or wherever you please. You can even make those planters from discarded pallets or scrap wood.

Logical Thought…and Plenty Of It

As most guerilla gardeners will admit, you’re more than likely to get stopped by the police at some point. Yes, technically guerilla gardening is vandalism…but beautiful vandalism. After explaining to the police that you’re just taking responsibility for the beautification of a part of the city that’s been neglected, they’ll probably let you carry on with your work…or at worst, tell you to stop and go home. (But then you just come back 2 hours later and finish up.)

Weapons of Mass Forestation

If the government ever stopped harassing guerilla gardeners and actually became them, they might use something like this non-military “eco-terrorist” bomb…the Seedbomb. Take that deforestation and desertification. Bam!

For more great info on guerilla gardening, don’t miss what the head gardener at NYU is up to, Home2Garden’s awesome guerilla gardening help, and of course the pioneers of guerilla gardening, Richard Reynolds of GuerillaGardening.org and the infamous Liz Christy herself. If you decide to take up guerilla gardening, you can post pics of your exploits in the guerilla gardening flickr group.

>> Check out " Can You Grow with No Garden?" for more green gardening tips!