Suzanne sent in this link from Taunton Fine Gardening on how to prune tomato plants:
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/how-to/articles/pruning-tomatoes.aspx
Calendar
Celebrating the Seasons with Rebecca Kolls features multiplying your perennials, creating garden-fresh centerpieces and a salsa recipe. She also answers readers questions about droopy hostas (we’ve got hostas, but I think they look good) and cat-faced tomatoes. Well, if only my tomatoes grew, but those who got theirs this year have an enviable stock of pretty reds.
Read about it at http://www.garden.org/celebratingtheseasons/
Moss in the City: Gardening in Small Spaces
William Moss talks about, well, moss. His first time addressing the subject that shares his name, Mr. Moss talks about sustainable peat moss, how to cultivate moss in your garden. Also in this issue, befriending your local farmers’ market farmers and gardening tips for the waning summer months.
Read about it at http://www.garden.org/urbangardening/
Hi all —
Meeting/work session tonight 8/13/08, 6PM – ?
THANKS TO:
Lou Ludyny for p cutting together and overseeing a fabulous 4th of July BBQ, with some 40 gardeners and friends enjoying the great potluck ethnic items brought! Special kudos to Larry Lewis — who marinated overnight at home and then grilled on premises delicious tender BBQ ribs, and Jesus Torres for his fancy franks and burger broiling.
Pamela Wax for her worthy and successful endeavors in putting together both the committee and full membership lists.
Robin Mace and her crew for the good ‘police-cat’ work done — such a pleasure to be rodent free!
Lou Ludyny for obtaining two new lawn mowers (one for free, another for $5!), andhaving the original working one sharpened. I’m sure the lawn areas are showing happily.
There are no special events scheduled in August.
HOWEVER, if you’d like to hold a birthday, back-to-school sendoff, private event, contact Veronica Winsch for permission and to be sure there are no conflicts with another gardener’s planned event? All weekends are open.
OTHER:
PLEASE BE SURE TO LOCK THE GARDEN GATE(S) when you leave? Both gates have been left open on several occasions — fortunately the locks remained where left on the fence.
PLEASE return tools to the shed from which you obtained them, and in the Rose Caddy. Otherwise, somebody else has to replace them appropriately and one can’t find tools expected in either East or West gardens. The Steering/Maintenance crews have made sure that there are equal tool distribution between both gardens — though we only have one ladder currently.
All for now – Lucille
F.Y.I.: An interesting tour. LM
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:01 PM
Subject: HARLEM GREEN: 3rd annual tour of Harlem gardens, Saturday, August 9th, 2008
HARLEM GREEN, A Tour of Harlem Community Gardens
Saturday, August 9th, 2008 10am-3pm
The NYC Community Gardens Coalition and Harlem Urban [community] Gardeners (HUG) will host “Harlem Green,” The Third Annual Tour of Harlem Community Gardens, on Saturday, August 9th, 2008, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. A trolley is being provided by the NYC Parks Department to take tourists on this trip. While it is possible to tour only a few of Harlem’s many green jewels, tourists will be provided with a map which includes gardens not on the scheduled tour. This event will give tourists an opportunity to talk with gardeners, and to learn the history of the gardens and the community garden movement in NYC. The Tour, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 10:00 AM at the Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden @ 219 West 122nd Street between Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick Douglass Blvds., where breakfast will be served. The last garden on the tour will be the William A. Harris Garden @ 153rd Street & St. Nicholas Avenue at 3:00PM. Tourists will be treated to a good old-fashioned barbeque here with everything homemade and delicious!
Along the way tourists will discover everything from cooling shade trees to tomatoes, beans, corn and more unusual crops, such as stevia (a non-sugar herb sweetener) & cotton, growing in these urban oases. There are grapevines, herbs & flowers of all varieties, fruit trees, composting projects, and solar-powered ponds which host a world of water plants and water creatures.
Vistors are welcome to join the tour at any point along the way according to Tour Coordinators, who emphasize that the gardeners “…are grassroots developers who have worked long and hard to improve and protect our environment not only, but to keep our city—which consistently ranks worst in the nation for airborne pollutants—from becoming a concrete desert.”
For further information, please call 212. 662. 2878
Sponsors for this event include The NYC Community Gardens Coalition (NYCCGC); Harlem Urban Gardeners (HUG); The City of New York Parks and Recreation Department and Greenthumb; The William A. Harris Garden; Project Harmony, Inc.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT-All welcome to meet local NYPD officers and members of the Precinct Council
Tuesday, August 5, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 25th Annual Celebration of “National Night Out” 24 Precinct Community Council Celebration at Happy Warrior Playground (Amsterdam Avenue btw 98th and 99th Streets), including food, music games and a clown for the children. Contact: Ms. Lucile Donte at 212.662.0723 or the 24 Precinct Community Affairs Office at 212.678.1811. 20 Precinct celebrates at Verdi Square, 72nd Street and Broadway with a band and lots of freebies. Contact: Ms. Sam Katz (212) 587-1000 or samkatz@nycdetectives.org
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Summer Chess-In-Parks Program: Councilmember Gale A. Brewer, in conjunction with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, brought a Summer Chess-In-Parks Program to Samuel Bennerson Park, located on 64th Street between Amstrerdam Avenue and West End Avenue in Amsterdam Houses/Addition (NYCHA). This program, scheduled July 7 to August 21, Monday – Thursday, 10 AM to 2 PM, includes free instruction in all elements of chess, including piece movement, strategies, opening lines, checkmating patterns, tactics and more. This program is fun and is open to all children. Info: 212-408-0296.
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2008 Parks Mobile Units: NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Mobile Unit For the past five summers Council Member Gale A. Brewer, in coordination with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, has brought Mobile Units to parks throughout the neighborhoods of the Upper West Side and Clinton.
August 6 from 11 AM – 5 PM: Skate Unit , with in-line skates, helmets and knee guards, Harborview Houses Courtyard, 530 West 55th Street.
August 22 from 11 AM – 5 PM: Skate Unit , with in-line skates, helmets and knee guards, Amsterdam Houses, 64th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues.
August 28 from 11 AM – 5 PM: Fitness Unit, Dance Dance Revolution, a musical video arcade game played on a dance pad, along with hula hoops, jump ropes, and fun activities for people of all ages, DeHostos, West 93rd Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway.
Lucille sent around the July issue of of Gardening in the City newsletter, “Moss in the City.”
http://www.garden.org/urbangardening/index.php?page=200807news
Includes articles on rooftop gardening, weeding and “Thinking Treen.”
During these hot days, please take some time to water the communal gardens (including the herb and rose gardens). They all need long, deep drinks.
Many thanks.
Hi Gardeners
Thought you might be interested in this New Yorkers for Parks program about our parks, their design, and various issues that we in our garden might want to think about–passive and active solar, wind power, etc. Please note that you can attend for free if you make reservations. (Phone number at the end.)
Suzanne
Spotlight on Design: Building in the City’s Parks
Designing new buildings for parks offers some of the greatest challenges and opportunities in urban architecture today, as planners balance effects on the landscape with practical uses. Join some of the city’s leaders in park design as they discuss the aesthetic and environmental considerations that go into planning tomorrow’s innovative park buildings today, including use of lawns as roofs, buildings as armatures for tapestries of living plants, wind turbines, passive and active solar power, and building textures evocative of owl feathers.
Charles McKinney, Chief of Design of Capital Projects for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, will lead a discussion on using buildings as landscape with Greg Kiss of Kiss and Cathcart and Jennifer Sage and Peter Coombeof Sage and Coombe.
Reservations required. $9 general admission; $5 Museum members, seniors, & students.
Thursday • July 24 • 6:30 PM
at Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
(212) 534-1672
Special offer for New Yorkers for Parks subscribers:
Receive free admission to this program by calling (212) 534-1672, ext. 395 for reservations. Please mention New Yorkers for Parks when you call.
Rebecca Kolls covers sun protection, Vidalia lollypops (?!) and mulching in the July 2008 issue of “Celebrating the Seasons.” View the complete newsletter at:
http://www.garden.org/celebratingtheseasons/?page=200807newsSeasons
On Friday, July 4th, there will be a potluck BBQ beginning at 5pm. Please bring a dish, soda, water, or other donations (hot dogs, hamburgers, veggies, charcoal — to grill, of course) for the BBQ.
*Please RSVP to Ann Levine, siswi @ aol.com, so we can have an idea of how many are coming.
*Members and their personal guests ONLY!!!
*Please remember garden rules regarding no alcholic beverages in the garden.