More Pin-Hole Photography in the garden

Summit Street Garden, originally uploaded by Steven Chalmers.

Garden Member Steven Chalmers continues his pin-hole photography technique in our garden. This photo of our wheelbarrow is quite nice.

Firefly Delight

Photo by Jim Richardson

Happy Fourth of July to you all.

We had a busy but beautiful night in the Garden last night. We all noticed an increased presence of my favorite insect of all time, the magnificent FIREFLY. You should all shuffle yourselves down to see them in their glory in our little shared space. It's pretty darn neat that we have so many of them in the middle of Brooklyn. Sheila recently sent me this NY Times article on Fireflies, which is a darn good read.

Here are some interesting facts: The larvae live in the ground for two years, and it's in their last two weeks of their lifespan, where the adults come out to glow to attract mates. They aren't flies at all, but beetles and there are more than 2.000 species worldwide. And there is a predator that looks like a firefly that blinks to deceive the male fireflies into thinking that they are females luring them in for a kill!

It really is a great article. Nothing, in my opinion, is more magical and definitively summer than the sight of the blinking firefly

Thanks for cleaning us up!

A big thank you to all the members and friends of members who stopped by this past weekend to lend a helping hand in our garden clean-up event. Trees were pruned, benches were mended, weeds were pulled, propane was filled, trash was disposed of and we all had a merry time and some good eats from the BBQ.

We're looking good garden, looking REAL good!

Pruning Guides

This past Weekend we had a Pruning Workshop led by Tony. I didn't get to make it personally, but I heard some good learning was had by all. Here are Tony's Links to some good pruning guides. This page can now serve as a bit of a reference when it comes to pruning. So ENJOY!

How-To prune things like GRAPES, CURRANTS, and PEACHES

How-To for PRUNING SHRUBS. and another one HERE

Here is a site for ROSE PRUNING / CARE

Here is a site for LAWN CARE

This site offers articles on PERENNIALS, FLOWERS, and many OTHER GARDENING TOPICS. New articles are added monthly

And Tony recommends this book, if your like me and enjoy reading non-fiction and love to have something you can hold in your hand and flip through. Read the book Understanding Perennials

And there you have it. Some guides to Pruning.

Garden Cleanup this weekend

This upcoming weekend, Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28th will be a day of Cleaning and BBQing. Come join your garden members in a pruning, weeding, and chocolate croissant fest! Anyone can come, but don't wear your Sunday best cause we be getting dirty! Food will be provided throughout both days.

Hours: Saturday June 27th - 9am - 3pm
Sunday June 28th - Noon - 6pm

See you all there!

Jazz in June

Hey neighbors and friends of all things growing!

I just wanted to pass on this tidbit of info I got from a flyer recently. Every Sunday in June, there will be Jazz music playing in the Red Hook Urban Meadow, on the corner of President and Van Brunt Street. For all the details you can go to Red Hook Jazz Fest My space page right HERE.

This Sunday, the line-up is:
2pm - People's Revolutionary Party
3pm - Anne Mette Iversen Quartet
4pm - SPOKE

Click on the links above and you can listen to some of their tracks. See all you cool cats there this Sunday, it's supposed to be a beautiful day! The show is FREE, with a suggested donation of $8.

Tag Sale Tomorrow!

We're having a Tag Sale tomorrow at our little garden, on the corner of Summit Street and Colombia Street. 8:30am - 2:30pm.

Pardon me for Asking, a local blog, Has posted about our tag sale here!