April Updates from Steve: GrowNYC Plant Order Placed

Our pick up date will be Saturday May 12 10:00a.m. in the Bronx, reachable by public transportation if you can volunteer to help us. With good organization we can have the plants back to the garden by 11:30 that morning and have a plant sale.

April Monthly Meeting  this  Saturday April 14, 2012    12 Noon

If you cannot attend send comments, issues, reports by email by Friday

2012 Dues need to be paid this month. see Ivy , or Michelle, or Steve

Bokashi II Workshop this Sunday with Shig Matsukawa and Carey King
 

Grow NYC’s Annual Plant Sale Order Time

Every year, GrowNYC’s Open Space Greening Program holds a Spring Plant Sale in order to provide community groups with perennial and annual flowering plants, herbs, ground covers, and vegetables from Greenmarket farmers at wholesale prices. Plants are for neighborhood open space projects only (e.g. community gardens, schools, block associations, churches, etc.) and may be sold to raise other funds.

Our Carrie McCracken Garden will make an order for our garden. Please let us know if there is anything in particular you would like and whether you could help us pick some of the plants up on one of the dates listed below.

New this year: More annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and heirlooms.

The list, descriptions and order form is  available here: http://www.grownyc.org/openspace/plantsale.

In addition to checks, money orders, and cash, we will now be accepting EBT!

This form must reach their offices with payment by 5PM, Friday, April 8th, 2011.

This year they  will have two pickup locations:

Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Brooklyn

Friday, April 29th from 10am to 3pm

Saturday, April 30th from 8am to 1pm

654 Lafayette Ave, Corner of Marcy Avenue & Clifton Place, Bedford‐Stuyvesant

Wishing Well Community Garden in the Bronx

Saturday, May 14th from 10am to 3pm

864 Rev James a Polite Avenue (between E. 163rd St and Dawson St.), Morrisania

Annual Plant Sale from GrowNYC

It’s time for the annual plant sale, and the form is here. Once a year, GrowNYC (formerly CENYC) offers gardens in the city the opportunity to order vegetable starts and some flowers at wholesale prices. This is a great opportunity to get some strong plants to start the season with and for us to hold a plant sale to benefit the garden. First we need your help with ordering the plants and picking them up later in the spring. Please send us your recommendations, pledge to buy a flat of plants or volunteer to pick up on one of the following days and times:

Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Brooklyn
Friday, April 30th from 10am to 3pm
Saturday, May 1st from 8am to 1pm
Corner of Marcy Avenue & Clifton Place
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [map]

Wishing Well Community Garden
Saturday, May 15th from 8am to 3pm
864 Rev James a Polite Avenue, between E. 163rd and Dawson St.
Morrisania, Bronx [map]

info@harlemgarden.org

Picking Up Plants 2009

Picking up new plants April 2009

Steve felt spring fever when the plants are really in the truck and headed to the garden.