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Whoever knows me knows that I'm a big fan of social media, particularly Twitter. But the more photos I take, the more I participate on Instagram, and although I'm still a newbie, I've been getting better. And since it's about photos, mostly I share pictures of my garden on Instagram, and not Twitter. After seeing that board about gardens being a defiant political act, I started following the #guerillagardening hashtag on Instagram. It's awesome and I started finding people doing all sorts of interesting things, among them an account called EnverdimBarcelona (Enverdim on Twitter) that describes itself this way: 

For example, he takes a little mandarine orange tree, and leaves it on a bench with a note explaining its story and that you can take it and how to take care of it and everything, and he waits to see if someone takes it home... You can see a report on BTV tv about Enverdim.

So I started following his account and I offered him some volunteer loquat trees that had materialized in my garden. We got together the other day so I could bring him the trees and to talk a bit about his project—which is very similar to what I'm trying to do here with this page on Aixeta: help share plants and seeds and information about urban gardens. So much so that I decided to change the name of this page to GardenSharing... From now on, you'll find this page at gardensharing.aixeta.cat.

Jordi, the guy behind Enverdim, and I talked about which plants are easy to propagate and thus easy to share. There are many plants that multiply on their own: strawberries, asparagus fern, my volunteer loquats, and then there are a fair number more that are pretty easy to divide: lantana, morning glory, and even grape vines and raspberries, for example. Finally there are still more that produce lots of seeds that are easy to grow: cosmos, marigolds, calendula, all kinds of succulents, herbs, even lettuce and spinach... and still others, like advocados, pineapples and oranges that we can grow from kitchen waste that otherwise we would throw away.

In today's photographs, I'll show you all of my plants (well, a lot of them) that I did not buy. Maybe I'll encourage you to do the same. (OK, and one of the beautiful pumpkin too, which is almost ready to be made into... shhhhh.. pie!)

Why? So you can turn Barcelona, or wherever you live, green too. Plants are like a candle flame: you can share them without losing anything. And everyone benefits from more light and more plants. Let's follow Enverdim Barcelona's example and share what we have. If you want some of mine, you can follow or subscribe to this page or let me know through Twitter or Instagram. I also did a little poll on Twitter to see what you wanted. And I'll also do like Enverdim and leave some plants on a bench somewhere—probably in the Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia, which is not far from my own garden.

(And no, I haven't given up on Catalan independence, this project is what is keeping me sane enough to keep working on it.)