Garden Notes and Eating Out
Ready for Harvest:
The radishes are now gone, as is the lackluster arugula, however the bunching onions are arriving in great fashion. Particularly, the He-Shi-Ko onions are quite flavorful—you needn’t even pull the bulb, simply snip off a section of the green tops, chop it up, and throw it into whatever you’ll be eating over the next few days…Pico de gallo? Cream cheese? Stir-fry? Omelet? At least try a bite next time you’re at the garden. Also, feel free to pluck some lettuce, as its ready and there for the taking. Be careful not to step on the neighboring lettuce and kale seedlings, planted in rows adjacent to the mature rows of lettuce.
Volunteer call:
The masonry shop canceled last Friday, but I’ve rescheduled to pick up bricks from them Wednesday at 1pm. If you are available, please come help me move the bricks from masonry shop, located beneath Pupin Plaza (down the main Dodge gym steps and then down the smaller staircase to the left), to the garden.
Also, I received notice from NYC Parks and Rec. that there is a pile of woodchips at 92nd Street and Riverside Drive that we are free to take. Liz A. also notes there are piles of woodchips at 88th Street in Riverside Park. Please, please, please, if you are available, pick-up a bag or two of the woodchips to bring to the garden (take the bus, even a rolling suitcase could be useful…). Free mulch is great, but only if volunteers—you—help bring it to the garden. By laying mulch around plants, the site will be more attractive and the mulch will suppress weeds and prevent water evaporation, which means less work in the long run.
With mulch and bricks, we will have a work party Wednesday, 5:30-7pm. Please come by and help make paths, and lay mulch. Bring your compostables.
If you aren’t available then, stop by any time to weed, stake tomatoes, and rake the west plot (around the plants, and squash hills).
We now have signs but nothing to put them on. If you have a hammer and nails to affix signs to posts then people will finally know what’s happening at the site!
Take note: Colin planted gladiola bulbs along the front edge of the west plot. They will look beautiful soon, but for now be careful not to step on them, as that will compact the soil.
Eating out tonight? Check out this list of restaurants that purchase food from NYC Greenmarkets: http://www.cenyc.org/greenmarket/chefswhobuy
The radishes are now gone, as is the lackluster arugula, however the bunching onions are arriving in great fashion. Particularly, the He-Shi-Ko onions are quite flavorful—you needn’t even pull the bulb, simply snip off a section of the green tops, chop it up, and throw it into whatever you’ll be eating over the next few days…Pico de gallo? Cream cheese? Stir-fry? Omelet? At least try a bite next time you’re at the garden. Also, feel free to pluck some lettuce, as its ready and there for the taking. Be careful not to step on the neighboring lettuce and kale seedlings, planted in rows adjacent to the mature rows of lettuce.
Volunteer call:
The masonry shop canceled last Friday, but I’ve rescheduled to pick up bricks from them Wednesday at 1pm. If you are available, please come help me move the bricks from masonry shop, located beneath Pupin Plaza (down the main Dodge gym steps and then down the smaller staircase to the left), to the garden.
Also, I received notice from NYC Parks and Rec. that there is a pile of woodchips at 92nd Street and Riverside Drive that we are free to take. Liz A. also notes there are piles of woodchips at 88th Street in Riverside Park. Please, please, please, if you are available, pick-up a bag or two of the woodchips to bring to the garden (take the bus, even a rolling suitcase could be useful…). Free mulch is great, but only if volunteers—you—help bring it to the garden. By laying mulch around plants, the site will be more attractive and the mulch will suppress weeds and prevent water evaporation, which means less work in the long run.
With mulch and bricks, we will have a work party Wednesday, 5:30-7pm. Please come by and help make paths, and lay mulch. Bring your compostables.
If you aren’t available then, stop by any time to weed, stake tomatoes, and rake the west plot (around the plants, and squash hills).
We now have signs but nothing to put them on. If you have a hammer and nails to affix signs to posts then people will finally know what’s happening at the site!
Take note: Colin planted gladiola bulbs along the front edge of the west plot. They will look beautiful soon, but for now be careful not to step on them, as that will compact the soil.
Eating out tonight? Check out this list of restaurants that purchase food from NYC Greenmarkets: http://www.cenyc.org/greenmarket/chefswhobuy
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