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Streetwise gardens
It was great to read the piece on guerilla gardening (Over the fence, August issue). This doesn’t have to be as militant as it sounds but can just be a gentle greening of small areas to make public places a bit more pleasant.
I was fed up with dogs using the tree on the pavement outside my house as a lavatory and the soil around it was pretty grim. So a lockdown project saw me use some old planks to create a raised bed around the tree.
I filled this with compost and
