Truck as flower bed

MAKE: founder Dale Dougherty went to the California State Fair where he snapped the photo above. Dale writes:

Here is one of my favorite sights, a "green" truck in the Farm area. It's an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could be transformed once rusty wrecks become warm and fuzzy, like something out of a Pixar movie.

Grass-covered truck (Makezine.com)

[#1 posted by Xopher, August 20, 2008 11:17 AM]

Sort of a truck garden, huh?

[#2 posted by Tirjasdyn, August 20, 2008 11:31 AM]

the yards of rural America aren't filled with old trucks.

sigh.

[#3 posted by Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger, August 20, 2008 11:32 AM]

All hail the truck farmer!

[#4 posted by jathomas, August 20, 2008 11:49 AM]

Awesome, but I would really hate having to pay vehicle tax on my flower bed, however...

[#5 posted by mdhatter, August 20, 2008 12:17 PM]

Sweet! A 1947 Dodge sod-body!

[#6 posted by Anonymous, August 20, 2008 12:21 PM]

Soon, coming to a Hummer near you!

[#7 posted by Nora Rocket, August 20, 2008 12:40 PM]

I *just* saw a pick up with a bed filled with dirt and flowers on the street in Cambridge (MA) this weekend! Nice!

[#8 posted by Anonymous, August 20, 2008 1:40 PM]

Part of a display at the Jardin botanique de Montréal one year was a VW Beetle that had been planted in much the same way.

[#9 posted by mdhatter, August 20, 2008 2:01 PM]

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia!

[#10 posted by Razzbar, August 20, 2008 4:26 PM]

Banyan tree growing out of a '52 Dodge:
http://agarmedium.com/48aca6c0

[#11 posted by brokebutstilldrinking, August 20, 2008 5:47 PM]

Could you get arrested for drinking then trying to drive a flower bed?

[#12 posted by AlanJCastonguay, August 21, 2008 5:55 AM]

There's a similar flower bed parked on the street in Toronto's Kensington Market: http://flickr.com/photos/alanjcastonguay/sets/72157606794927729/

[#13 posted by Purly, August 21, 2008 6:09 AM]

I see these all the time in upstate NY.

[#14 posted by wolfiesma, August 21, 2008 11:48 AM]

This would be so nice to climb in and sit down. It looks so much more comfortable than your typical outdoor furniture. I really want to make a grass chair kind of thing.