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I wrote about this great mobile garden in a previous post.  Thought I’d update folks, as it was still winter at that point, and there wasn’t much life in it.  Now that it’s almost summer, this amazing raised-bed-on-wheels is bursting with scrumptious edibles, and I finally figured out what the hell was going on with the gravity-fed milk jug irrigation system.  It’s pretty clever!

Still waiting for someone to put a bike trailer hitch on one of these….

It feels like I have a new favorite guerilla-planting every week, and this week, it’s this amazing stenciled utility sink planter on the corner of SE 25th and Ivon in Portland. File under f’n awesome.

This one gets major points for the following reasons:

• Displays polycultural planting in a small space, with tomato, beans, lettuce, basil. (That said, it’s probably planted a little too densely, with one tomato and one bean plant too many.)
• Upcycles an old utiliy sink.
• Water that drains out of the sink flows into another planter below the sink planted with lettuces, which thrive in the shady microclimate underneath.
• Great signage (“Respect Our Local Food” & “Niche Repurposing Public Space”)
• Beautiful stenciling.
• Placement directly on the corner demands attention, but it’s still out of the way enough for pedestrians to navigate around.

This is one of the most fun mobile container gardens I’ve seen yet.  Major points for sun-maximizing solar orientation on the trellis (south is to the left in this photo), as well as for the My Little Pony sticking out of it in two places and the handle from a baby stroller.

This kind of thing would be great for folks to cart around to street fairs and other high visibility events, and it’d be so cool to see whole fleet trailer’d on bikes.

Enough trying to get people to a gardening workshop, bring the gardening workshop to the people!