Gardening with Bronx Green-Up
The New York Botanical Garden's, Bronx Green-Up provides horticulture education, training, and technical assistance to Bronx residents, urban gardeners, local schools, and community organizations. This blog is a photo essay that documents the many idyllic gardens within this urban environment, as well as a Green-Up guide to gardening.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Gardening with Bronx Green-Up: Making Compost through Collaboration
Gardening with Bronx Green-Up: Making Compost through Colaboration: With the help of Thomas McQuillan of Baldor Specialty Foods and Sung and Paul from the Bronx Green-Up's Grow Greens class, I was able to...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Making Compost through Collaboration
With the help of Thomas McQuillan of Baldor Specialty Foods and Sung and Paul from the Bronx Green-Up's Grow Greens class, I was able to fill up a compost bin with 3 huge pails of Baldor's watermelon and cantaloupe rind at the Hunts Point Park and Recreation Center. Sung and Paul mixed in leave and dead branches to give us an ideal ratio of carbon and nitrogen materials. Now it is up to the microorganisms to break the mixture down into a rich humus material for the plants. Great team effort!
Baldor's Specialty Food Delivering Buckets of Compost Material |
Thomas McQuillan of SparCs - Division of Baldor Specialty Foods |
Close-up of Rinds for Compost Bin |
Adding Green Nitrogen Rich Material to Bin |
Rinds with Leaves |
Empty Buckets |
Watermelon Rinds on Top of Leaves |
Paul is mixing leaves, branches, and rinds together |
Sung is cutting down the rind into little pieces |
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Late Winter Planting and Tree Pruning in Drew Gardens
Planting Seeds in Starter Trays at Bissel Gardens
Bissel Garden Mural |
Students Starting Seeds in Trays |
Mixing the ORGANIC Potting Soil to Perfect Consistency |
Waster the Soil, So It Can Be Shaped into a Loose Ball |
Filling the Starter Trays with Prepared Dirt |
Organic Soil with Perlite Being Placed in Tray |
Heirloom Seeds to Place in Starter Trays |
Placing Seeds Into Tray |
Watering Seeds To Germinate |
Preparing Beds for Planting and Cover Crops
New Roots Garden in Mid March |
Hairy Vetch a Cover Crop that Releases Nitrogen Into Soil |
Close-up of Roots with the Bacteria Rhizobium |
Cover Crop Close-Up |
Turning Over the Hairy Vetch, which Promote Nitrogen Rich Soil from the Rhizobium |
Ursula Uprooting Hairy Vecht |
After Cover Crop is Removed, Soil will be Ready for Planting |
Cover Crop, Buckwheat |
Buckwheat, Cover Crop, Decomposing for Compost |
Pulling The Buckwheat Out of the Bed |
Raking Out the Green Buckwheat from Roots |
Little Worm from Garden Bed |
Volunteer Turning Over the Buckwheat to Expose Roots and Bury the Green |
Ursula and Khadeesha Turning Over Buckwheat, Cover Crop |
Prepping Raised Beds For Spring Planting |
Volunteer Picking up Straw that was Protecting Soil From Winter's Elements |
Friday, March 11, 2016
NYBG's Green-Up Teaching How To Start a Garden
Green-ups Gardening Class
Instructor, Kadeesha, Combining Soils For Seed Starters |
Students Planning Their Planting Strategy |
Student Filling Their Seed Tray with Dirt |
NYBG's Kadeesha Instructing Class |
Planting Seeds in Starter Tray |
Students Planning Seeding Cycle |
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