Jersey City officials have announced the winners of the city’s first-ever Garden Awards, which will all be recognized at a ceremony this weekend. Downtown’s Public School 5 is the winner of the Best School Garden award, the Storms Avenue Community Garden is being dubbed the Best Start-Up Garden, the garden at Van Vorst Park takes [...]
As a book person, I’ve spent many rainy/snowy/humid/icky days inside reading about gardening. As this garden season comes to a close, with the projected first frost date this Saturday, I thought I’d list a few of my favorite gardening books that might help nurse you through the long winter ahead. from Les Fleurs Animees, [...]
Mayor Healy speaks at today’s press conference; he is surrounded by members of the Jersey City Parks Coalition and a number of city agencies. On this year’s Make a Difference Day, the Jersey City Parks Coalition, several city agencies and scores of volunteers plan to plant 17,000 daffodils and tulips at 80 locations throughout the [...]
Jersey City revised its Adopt-A-Lot program this winter, making it easier for residents and organizations to start community gardens on vacant land. The program is part of city planners’ larger push to bring more urban agriculture to Jersey City, and the latest outgrowth of those efforts is a new contest: the Backyard/Front Yard Garden Competition. [...]
“There the sun lighted me to hoe beans … removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown …” from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. Weeds. Everyone hates them. The word itself is ugly. But something I’ve learned in my years of gardening (and reading books [...]
Summer is over. Put away your white sandals and sunblock, because it’s done. Finito. Well, not exactly. It’s over for kids and vacationers, but not for gardeners. Many home tomato crops yield their greatest volume of fruit in September, and keep giving well into October. Hardier plants, like squash or brussels sprouts, will take you [...]
When we last saw Emily, she was on the verge of discovering the source of her pumpkin plant’s malaise. Will she find the antidote in time? I was pretty certain that the thing destroying my plant was a Squash Vine Borer. The only way to know for sure was to dig the sucker out of [...]
I haven’t always had the best luck with vegetables in my community garden plot. There have been disappointing pepper yields, frustrating tomato thefts, and bolting broccoli. This year, I wanted to find something new to try. So in my quest to find new crops at the garden center, I came across a little pumpkin plant. [...]
Left to right: Dawn Niles, Stephen Stamos, Katie Monteiro, Paul Clark and Corrado Vasquez of the West Side Community Alliance clean up the vacant lot (Photo by umojaphoto.com) Over the weekend, volunteers descended on a vacant, trash-strewn lot on West Side Avenue between Boyd and Virginia Avenues to take initial steps towards the eventual construction [...]
This weekend my husband and I took a trip out to the Sussex County Fair. If you’ve never been to a county fair, specifically an agricultural fair, you are really missing out. (Seriously, stop what you are doing and go visit one RIGHT NOW.) These multi-day events feature things like barrel racing, fluffy bunnies, insanely [...]
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