Making a garden in a publci park then policing it....

[Bleenherbe]

Have name changed for this because is so weird it probably hasn't happened everywhere. Some people have made a garden in our local green (where the children play after school). Ie they have planted a garden in a publci place. This woman then runs out and tells off children who walk on the sort of sleeper things around the garden (it is raised) on the basis that they might fall and damage plants. AIBU to think she has a colossal cheek?

Sorry, I fear my haste has led to the dreaded dripfeed of info. apologies, gingernutlover!

or pick them when ready & take to a homeless shelter in the area. On public land = for general use, surely?

I did wonder, Stealth, what she would be able to say if people did pick them! There is also the fact that gentelemen drinkers sometimes congregate at night on the green and might well urinate in the garden, I suspect...

LOL yes stealthpolarbear - good idea

imagine if we all decided to plant our potatoes on the village green

i bet she didn't ask permission

I think you should complain to the council too.
It's the sort of thing that if you leave it, before you know it others are doing the same, and the green has been turned over to allotments. You'll wish you'd said something earlier.
I know it's awkward, but they might be having little residents' association/neighbourhood meetings etc and be saying about how well it's going.
And the council are probably looking for more allotment spaces (they are here).

What I'm thinking about is that maybe if the land gets used in this way unchallenged for a certain amount of time then they can carry on. Like with planning permission.

hmmm, that is worth thinking about paisleyleaf. I might ask around as to what other people in teh vicinity make of it. Certainly I know various local parents who are not impressed

Someone in our village has taken a huge chunk of green and done this. There's six foot fencing around it and hens on it though. The Plot has been there so long no-one really minds anymore, or can remember who the land belongs to.

This lady has a cheek though. Not at all in the spirit of guerilla gardening. I'd write her a letter telling her as much. Explain you will contact the council or if she shouts at your children again. Bloomin' cheek!

Or, if I was feeling spiteful, grow a plot of buddleja & bindweed next to it.

we have this man around our way

its all slightly weird. She cant tell the kids not to play there it is not HER land.

However our garden is twice as long as all the others in our road because the previous owners started tending some land at the end and did it for long enough that it became theirs.

guerilla gardening is fab but it seems that person has the wrong idea of what it is

Challenge it with the council ! If you enclose an area of land and no-one raises a challenges after x no of years the 'encloser' becomes legal owner.It happens a lot and I daresay her sleepers would count as enclosing the land.