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We’re moving!
Our new apartment is in a coop building with a ground floor courtyard.
The owners are thrilled that I compost, are happy to let me to lead the composting effort for the building, and are letting me have at the yard to do what I want. They may even pitch in for plants and let me do flowers out front. I think petunias are the best, don’t you?
O happy day!
I’ll do a soil test to make sure 100 years of lead paint haven’t ruined the soil too badly, but I have high hopes, given the 2 miles we’re putting between us and the Gowanus. It’s at the top of the Prospect hill, so nothing’s been rolling down on it for a hundred or more years like the old spot. I will post photos at the beginning of April.
In the meantime, it’s a great time to get your soil tested, and CUNY is now doing it for cheap in the 5 boroughs. I’m pretty sure that students and scientists are using the data for research, which is always nice. Also, their turnaround time is only 2 weeks.
In other news, Wednesday is St. Patty’s Day, which as we know from last year, is Pea Planting Day. I can say with certainty that it was effective to plant that early. I’m gonna put my peas in a little late because of the move, but if you can, plant early. My peas were in containers, and even with a pretty heavy snow after sowing, they were bountiful early.
If urban gardening interests you, check out a video of Leslie’s garden in Braddock, PA. She’s across the street from a steel mill, and has done amazing things designing her garden with Permaculture principles to maximize water retention, etc.
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