3rd Street
Looking forward to seeing all those bulbs in bloom in the spring in this garden on 3rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues! How’s your Park Slope winter garden prep going? Take a photo of it, send it to editor@bklyner.com, add it to the Park Slope Stoop
bulb planting
Are you one of our local green thumbs? Then help neighbors turn soil, plant bulbs, and spread compost and mulch around our area next Saturday, October 5. Volunteers should meet at the Glenwood Road dead end (between the subway tracks and Rugby Road) at 10am to plant there, as well
flowers
John Komar [http://www.flickr.com/photos/29731357@N05/9488064541] spots a cucumber blossom on Argyle… … Marcia Van Wagner spies one enormous mushroom… … and Marketa Jefferson [http://www.marketasart.com] captures a crape myrtle. How are your local plants faring? Share with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas
Dairy
Did you know that PS 295 [http://www.ps295.org/category/pta/] (330 18th Street) was rocking an after school farmers market? If you’re in the neighborhood, definitely try and stop by on Thursday from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, because their list of fresh goodies sounds amazing: Kale
Lifestyle
Today we have 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. The sun rose in the exact east and will set in the exact west. We will continue gaining daylight until the Summer Solstice on June 21st. Happy Equinox! Time for spring planting! Old man winter gave us a
gardening
Tracey Hohman [/?s=Tracey+Hohman] is a local green thumb. Recently, part of her own garden was stolen. She wrote in to tell us about it: > For the past two weeks someone has been stopping by to trim my kale. I think they must be eating it. Now it
Flatbush Development Corporation
It’s time to get your hands dirty. The FDC [fdconline.org] is organizing the Green Corridors Initiative, a project aimed at planting daffodils in public spaces throughout the neighborhood. > We want to brighten our days with a touch of beauty along everyday routes: our walks to the train,
green
A big thanks to Maria Newsom Fahey and her crew of young volunteers for doing a tree pit cleanup on East 9th Street at Foster! Your work makes the street look much nicer, and the whole neighborhood appreciates it. Donald Loggins sends these photos of the volunteers at work.
gardening
From our friends at the Bay Improvement Group: Come on out and help in our annual Fall Planting and 3 site Garden Clean-Up in Sheepshead Bay. Just bring your gardening enthusiasm and tools (if possible) to Sheepshead Bay Road and Shore Parkway. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! ALL INVITED Sunday, Oct. 30th,
build a garden in brooklyn
Courtesy of Paypaul via Flickrby Ryan Maye Handy English? Check. Biology? Check. Farming? Check. Kingsborough Community College will be the first higher-education institution in New York City to launch an urban farm tilled by students, the school announced on Wednesday. Kingsborough is launching the “Build a Garden in Brooklyn” project
bamboo grove
Last week, when the identity of lower Manhattan’s Sad Panda [http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/05/post_16.html] was revealed in documentarian Michelle Tay’s video [http://gothamist.com/2009/11/18/sad_panda_behind_the_mask.php], it reminded us of hungry pandas and our local