Guerilla Gardening

This Saturday (just gone) saw SHOP busy at work in the new arts space creating - of all - things seed bombs (as well as some questionable clay sculptures)! The aim of the exercise was to claim back the Christmas Steps Arts Quarter Community Garden - that residents and traders have had access cut to since the late 90's when security gates belonging to a nearby office block were erected - by throwing said bombs at said garden.

The rain put a stop to the actual bombing and there's plenty of seed bomb ingredients still at SHOP, so if you have a place in the city you would like to 'hit' pop in and we'll give you some surreptitious advice.


(rumours that we were given the code to the security gate by a neighbour are neither true nor false).


Here's some educational pictures:

It is just clay and soil, honest.

Many hands make many seed bombs, and ginger giraffe-deers.


Many hands make, oh ... made that joke already

The ginger giraffee-deer fiercely guarded the seed bombs

A bomb! A bomb! A bomb!!

Here's some bombs we made earlier...