Friday, April 9, 2010
Meeting tomorrow April 10th!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Neighborhood Gardening Institute
Gardening in New York City isn't always easy. Limited bed space, pollutants, weeds and pests make city growing a challenging, yet rewarding labor of love. Learn how to overcome these and other hurdles through NYRP's new Neighborhood Gardening Institute, a series of four workshops for gardeners from all skill levels. Interested participants can join Just Food Trainer Solita Stephens for just one workshop or, for a more complete overview of urban gardening, attend the entire series. Gardeners who attend all four workshops will receive a Neighborhood Gardening Institute Certificate, recognizing their achievement and contribution to local food production. For your convenience, the series will run simultaneously in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Because we want to make sure you're equipped for the season, you'll leave NGI workshops with all the seeds, tools, and other supplies you need to grow a beautiful and successful garden.
Preregistration is required. To register, please contact NYRP Community Outreach Coordinator Charlie Reynoso at creynoso@nyrp.org or call 212.333.2552. There will be a $10 materials fee per workshop or $30 for all four workshops. Scholarships are also available.
Garden Planning 101: Get more from your garden by planting seasonally. Succession planting is the most important tool for maximizing a garden's yield. Come to this workshop with a rough map of your growing space and leave with a garden plan for spring, summer and fall and seeds for early season crops. Take home a trowel, gloves and seeds.
4/7/10, 6:00 PM: BEDFORD STUYVESANT COMMUNITY GARDEN, 94 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn
4/10/10, 2:00PM: TARGET BRONX COMMUNITY GARDEN, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Bronx
4/20/10, 6:30PM: CURTIS "50 CENT" JACKSON COMMUNITY GARDEN, 117-09 165th Street, Queens
Vertical Gardening Workshop: Learn techniques to increase your planting space by growing vertically! We'll demonstrate how to build simple and beautiful trellises for beans, peas, cucumbers and other vining vegetables. Take home materials to build a trellis in your own garden.
5/1/10 2:00PM: TARGET BRONX COMMUNITY GARDEN
5/5/10, 6:00 PM: BEDFORD STUYVESANT COMMUNITY GARDEN
5/18/10, 6:30PM: CURTIS "50 CENT" JACKSON COMMUNITY GARDEN
6/2/10, 6:00 PM: BEDFORD STUYVESANT COMMUNITY GARDEN
6/5/10, 2:00PM: TARGET BRONX COMMUNITY GARDEN
6/15/10, 6:30PM: CURTIS "50 CENT" JACKSON COMMUNITY GARDEN
Tree Care for your Garden and Street: Learn how to provide basic care for the trees in your garden and neighborhood in this interactive workshop. Take home a free tree care kit including a hose or bucket, trowel, weeder, cultivator and gloves.
8/4/10, 6:00 PM BEDFORD STUYVESANT COMMUNITY GARDEN
8/10/10, 6:30PM CURTIS "50 CENT" JACKSON COMMUNITY GARDEN
8/21/10, 2:00PM TARGET BRONX COMMUNITY GARDEN
Friday, March 12, 2010
Starting seeds indoors? Don't forget to "harden off"!
I wait until about May 1 or April 15 to harden off my seedlings, and do it gradually. Most likely I’ll move them to a cold frame, where the lid is lifted for ventilation during the day, but closed at night. Another thing that I recommend to gardeners who don’t have cold frames is really easy and works great – take an empty juice or milk jug (I just pull them out of other people’s recycling), cut off the bottom, and you have an individual moisture and heat retainer and wind protector for your plant. The great thing about this is you go in stages – cap can come off for ventilation, and go back on at night or after the first few days. One week is usually sufficient for hardening off in May – two weeks is good in April.
Cheers, and hope to see you tomorrow at Making Brooklyn Bloom!"
So there you have it. Give those lil' guys a bit of a chance to get used to their new homes.
Also, here is a link to the Making Brooklyn Bloom event:
http://www.bbg.org/vis2/2010/mbb/
I'm not feeling well so most likely I won't make it, but I did attend last year and it was great. I highly recommend.
Thanks Lis!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monthly Gardening Calendar
Ah spring, so close!
I'm sure someone's posted this month-by-month gardening calendar for NYC before, but it's so good I thought it deserved an encore. Start your seed engines.....
Friday, January 8, 2010
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