Posted on February 26, 2010.
Off the Record: a new primer York City Garden ONE
The Union Square Farmers Market in New York is an ideal source for cheap and plentiful crops regionally, herbs and flowers. Go there first in the morning and you'll quickly discover that there are too-good-choose-to-Go. Stroll through the market stalls and weave between packets jumbo family Blew rosemary, and snow peas Migliorelli Farms. Bring your kitchen waste and deposit it in the stand of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, and while you're picking up a bag of black gold (worm casting compost) for only 50 cents. Then decide on the house baked duck fat with garlic ciabatta with a bunch too good-to-pass-up of freshly cut snapdragons. Bordered by 17th Street, Union Square West, 14th Street and Union Square East Directions: 4, 5, 6, N, R, L to Union Sq
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Crest neighborhood in Williamsburg Brooklyn Hardware on Metropolitan and Union Ave. is unique in a sea of chain superstores. Once you enter you hear TOP TEN AM play and "Mike", which is over two decades, sings "Hello my darling!" Everyone is called friend, "even" Finley "the gray parrot Africa which was in residence for five years. Islands 4, 5 and 6 are gardeners Eden - full of food plants, organic seeds and soil, hanging baskets, rain sticks, marble chips, gravel, green pipes, and sprinklers. The prices are nice too! 558 Metropolitan Avenue Directions: L train Lorimer
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No wonder Martha Stewart is released from prison felt like a rose. It carried its brand everyday gardeners provisions for K-Mart a line from A - Z of really cute bags and annual edible seeds. And just in time for the urban gardener is individually packaged mini-series of greenhouse tomato and strawberry. K-Mart 8973 Bay Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11214 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 Phone: 212-673-1540 250 W 34th St. Fl CONC14, New York NY 10119
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Wrapped around the back of the 10,000 square meters of Chelsea Garden Center on 38 and 10th Ave. are tons of wood, clay urns black, Italian and Hungarian terracotta containers, surprisingly shades Vietnamese Glazed pots, and natural cedar boxes in all sizes. One way or another, everyone is a certified horticulturist, largely thanks to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens program education. Just ask any question idiosyncratic garden and easygoing staff has a solution. 499 10th Ave, New York, 10018 - (212) 727-7100
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If you can not grow up, go in his place. Cherry Blossoms in May, Roses in June Every year the Brooklyn Botanical Garden offers an escape from a vibrant green lovers. BBG is 52 acres of urban horticulture and botanical resources. Apply online and help in the gardens of volunteerism and education. Or become a member and enjoy the positive side members picnic in summer only, Tour & Promotions class, and preview sales seasonal plants. 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-623-7200 ยท Directions: B or Q train to Prospect Park station. (The B train does not work on weekends.) The 2 or 3 trains to Eastern Parkway
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Snatching the city abandoned and derelict lots, planting flowers and vegetables, creating green spaces and revitalizing a neighborhood is essentially illegal. However, it has happened since 1973 in the five boroughs of the unshakeable influence of the guerrillas Green New York. Visit them online and find a community garden in your neighborhood and while you are stopped by the 18 gardens on the 'annual Green With Envy Tour spread "over two Saturdays in late June - Www.greengueri.
