Aggresively growing plants that crack pavement?

And also grow from seeds easily with no maintenance and spread fast.

I'm looking for plants of this variety because I am on a mission to take back the earth. People destroy nature with technology so I intend to destroy technology with nature.

Its also beneficial if the plants are edible or are known for some practical use, even better if the plants are easily recognizable for what they can do by the average person with little to no knowledge of plants.

 

Can only speak from a UK perspective, but various Thistles seem very adept at breaking their way through. I've seen disused hard-surface tennis courts knee deep in vegetation in a relitively short time... Thistles start the job, other plants colonize where there's a bit of soil...

Rosebay Willowherb, also known as the bombsite plant, because of the way it colonized bombsites post-WW2.

Buddlia... I seem to be noticing more and more Buddlia seedlings colonizing any old crack in the pavements or on walls, etc. Not to mention the sides of railways.

Fungi - I've seen certain types of fungi punch their way up through tarmac - amazing strength for something that seems so fragile.

Mosses... in the right conditions will cover. Lots of moss growing in my north-facing concrete-covered back yard, slowly turning it into a green space.

Oh, and Dandelions too...big strong roots.

Seeds of all the above - except fungi and moss - are available for collection from the wild over here - not sure about your location.

 

I love this idea! Rock on bro!

 

Thanks man I'll look into these

 

Cool I'm also looking for low to no maintenance food plants in general as well, early next year I'm setting out to make living in the woods practical and easy for everyone

 

Dandelions, again

Various wild berry bushes - [UK perspective again...] Rosehips, Blackberries, Sloes, Wild Strawberries [should do good in woods].

Nuts - Acorns [make a kind of coffee substitute], Beechmast [a bit fiddly to shell, but nice roasted], Hazelnuts, Chestnuts.

 

The most aggressive plant I know is Japanese Knotweed for breaking up pavement, but the catch is that it is an invasive, so I wouldn't plant it. Mullein is another good one, and while its recognized as a weed, it is medicinal, and the flowers are edible. It is a very strong biennial. The seeds are also readily available.

 

You do realize you have responsibility to not destroy someone else's property? And if you are found responsible of destroying that property you can be held liable?

You should also consider that by cracking and destroying concrete intentionally you could be creating a hazard which could injure others.

 

Fucking Dudley Do-right over here. We're talking about revolution, maaaaaan! :afro:

 

do it on the roads, then, not the sidewalks, genius!

 

I am, I plan on planting food plants away from civilization because I'm not dumb enough to plant food where its just going to be sprayed with nasty chemicals.

In regards to plants that destroy concrete that are also food, there are abandoned structures all over the world away from civilization that I would like to help break down.

I'm smart enough to know that guerilla food gardening is next to pointless in cities, give me some credit here

Disregard this post if you meant to literally plant things in the middle of the road to destroy the road, yeah I want to do that too lol

 

You must be a republican. I don't see a revolution I see the mindless destruction of property and the total absence of any consideration for safety of others, property or the environment.

Mindlessly introducing non-native species into an area is a totally revolting idea. Ask the people that introduced Kudzu vines to the south if they would do it again. Ask the european immigrants that brought snails to the new world if they would do it again.

 

plus, you don't want to destroy the sidewalks b/c then people would just drive more


lmao "you must be a republican"

 

Wow people are really quick to assume things here.

LET ME CLAIRIFY: I AM NOT PLANNING ON INTRODUCING THINGS TO AREAS THEY AREN'T NATIVE TO - I am going to look up what areas they are from, how they grow, if they are invasive and damaging to other plants around them or not, etc

I'm not a republican lol I'm learning the ways of primitivism (which by no means am I an expert) and looking for my own ways of doing things.

 

Oh shit this is the first time I saw this post my bad,

The people who put those sidewalks down destroyed the property of the earth.

Call the cops bro, I'll gladly go to jail for something I believe in and I'll laugh my ass off the entire time

 

To be fair, I took his idea to mean helping nature to return to what's essentially blighted land.

I live in a post-industrial city where nature is slowly returning - both plant and animal. We now have little areas of woodland which, when you look closer, you find is actually growing out of the concrete remains of old factories or shipyards. Its quite magical really, and a reaffirmation of the old saying: "You can drive Nature away with a pitchfork, but She always comes back."

 

Exactly, its not destruction of property if it wasn't yours to own/destroy in the first place

 

I know right!

 

How bout trying something like this :

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/man_who_planted_trees.php

 

Seems like a MAGNIFICENT idea.... Let's join hands :sunny: