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- Fort Greene Garden Walk ~ June 14th 10:42am May 24
- SHARE YOUR PASSION ~ June 14th 2:56pm Mar 31
- DIG. SHARE. DIG. 8:31am Mar 23
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- STEREOSCOPIC GARDEN PARTY
Irondale Center
Sunday, March 22 at 5:00pm
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June 14th, 2009 ~ 11:00am – 5:00pm 12th Annual BBGD Garden Walk FEATURING: TEN PRIVATE GARDENS THREE COMMUNITY GARDENS G...
We are looking for extraordinary gardens in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights to be featured on the BBGD 12th Annual Garden Walk. The walk will take place on June 14th from 11-5. NOTE: A garden sitter will be assigned...
Share your green. Increase your plant variety without exhausting your budget.
Share your green. Increase your plant variety without exhausting your budget.
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District
SHADE GARDENERS!
Impatiens no more! Try your funky thumb at growing shade loving mushrooms, beautiful and tasty; oysters, shiitake, wine caps and portobellos . . .
Barbara Pleasant at Mother Earth News explains: You'll need a hunk of dense hardwood, 4 to 6 inches in diameter, cut in late winter or spring when the wood is... rich with natural sugars, and with the bark left intact. Make 1-inch-deep holes 5 to 6 inches apart. Into these holes insert plugs of spawn and cap with melted wax. Once inoculated, stack the logs in a shady place. Water heavily twice a week .
To read the full article: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-G
To purchase spores and growing kits:
http://everythingmushrooms.com/shop/
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District
RECYCLED RUBBER MULCH
It is Spring clean-up time. It got me thinking about mulch, believe it or not. My personal favorite is cocoa shell mulch for its deep, rich espresso brown.
In my google search, I came across rubber mulch. It is a new product, to me, but naturally, I love that its recycled.
To check it out:
http://www.internationalmulch.com/produc
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District
The grass is always greener . . .
But what about the fence?!
LACE FENCE
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Fencing is a sign of how we modified and cultivated our environment. Like brambles, fences are rising rampantly around us.
What would happen if a patch of embroided wire would meet with
and continue as an industrial fence. Hostility versus kindness,
i...ndustrial versus craft.
| info@lacefence.eu |
See photo!
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District
"If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork." - Masanobu Fukuoka
SEED BOMB RECIPE
Seed Bombs Ingredients
1) powdered clay
2) worm castings
3) wildflower seeds indigenous to the area
4) water
5) mixing container
6) stick
How to Make a Seed Bomb
1) mix 5pt powder clay, 5pt worm castings, ...1pt seeds in a mixing container.
2) add just enough water to make a nice muddy clay consistency
3) roll up the mixture into little balls like gum balls
4) let dry in a cool dry place for like 3 days
5) throw them in empty fields.
Or buy them:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?lis
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District
GREEN GRAFFITI by Artist Edina Tokodi
Eco-minded street artist Edina Tokodi is putting a new spin on green guerilla tactics in the trendy art enclave of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tokodi’s site-specific moss installations of prancing animal figures and camouflage outgrowths are the talk of a local urban neighborhood typica...lly accustomed to gallery hype and commercial real estate take-overs. Unlike the market-driven art featured in sterile, white box galleries, the work of Tokodi is meant to be touched, felt, and in turn touch you in the playful ways that her animated installations call to mind a more familiar, environmentally friendly state in the barren patches of urban existence.
To read the whole story:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/10/24/urba
See photos in "Green Graffiti" album.
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District
The birds were chirping yesterday! Get ready!
Our neighborhood favorite!
ROOT STOCK AND QUADE
Stop by to take in the eye candy that is at every turn throughout the shop. Leave no stone unturned as there is a plethora of gorgeous flowers and unusual plants waiting to be paired with the season's collection of pots and vases.... What makes it all special ? John and Kerry handpick each and every plant and flower, pot and vase along with all of the other great goods you'll find nestled about the shop.
471 Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11205
info@rootstockquade.com
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