I’ve taken up guerrilla gardening in the front yard of my apartment. The landlord let it get overrun with invasive ivy, aka Enemy #1. I have been (with permission) systematically ripping out the ivy and turning the yard into an herb garden that I hope will be established by the time I leave the apartment. I have four lavender plants, oregano, garlic chives, sage, and tarragon. When I ripped the soil out, it was completely dead. With the ivy over it, there hadn’t been any organic matter added to it in years (decades?). There were some places where weeds wouldn’t even try to grow. I mixed in a bunch of organic fertilizer and mulched with compost, but I think it is going to take a long time to restore the soil to some sort of sustainable condition. I am hoping over the next year, the lavender and sage will largely fill out this space.
This is my other guerrilla project. I ripped out more ivy and put in a 4X4 raised bed. This is a very primitive raised bed, but it will work. I had the fellows at the lumber yard cut 2X10s into manageable lengths, then we nailed them together. I still need to add more soil and compost, but I’m happy with how it is coming along. I’m going to try growing purple sprouting broccoli in it over the winter, in order to have some homegrown food early next spring before anything else is available. Obviously, there is more work to do on the ivy. 
