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Garden Renewal: Up and Down and Inside and Out

7/14/2016

 
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After more than 20 years in our beautiful space near Octagon field, the volunteer members of Roosevelt Island Garden Club have been very busy rejuvenating and reviving. ​
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Our by-laws were re-written and approved in 2013. We have a website! We have re-instated composting. We are updating our pathways. We have worked on many of the wooden garden borders between and around the gardens. 

And now in 2016 we have a clean and beautiful shed for our tools and lockers! 
Neal Weissman has headed up this multi stage project and he writes: ​

Regarding the Shed.  It was a multi-stage project.
  • Step 1 Replace the overhead lights that were seriously in need of change.
  • Step 2 Complete a massive clean out on our first community service day and remove all things on top of the lockers.
  • Step 3 Use Rust-oleum to paint the lockers in the patriotic red, white, and blue, plus green for all of us our gardeners.
  • Step 4 Stencil flowers and birds on alternating upper lockers in a variety of colors.
  • Step 5 Labeled upper left corners with members' names.
  • Step 6 Post plant comparability chart, plot map, and a notice to clean tools outside the shed.
  • Step 7 Add carpeting and some armchairs -----just kidding!

Gardeners involved along with Neal this year were Jose, Philippe, Ron S, Kaz, and Florence Masoud's son. Last year, Karen labeled all the tool bins and we had a team who helped us get a refrigerator replacement. This year we have also had Arline who created our little library shelf!  Thanks to all.

And don't forget to clean those tools before you put them back in our lovely shed space.

Garden Books: Storytime for Parents Network Members

7/14/2016

 
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On June 22nd, RIGC hosted about 15 children and their parents/caregivers for a story,an exploration walk, and seed planting. We read Jack's Garden by Henry Cole and had a wonderful time.
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We also discovered that there are some great garden and gardening books for children and grandchildren that you may want to put on hold at NYPL.  Please send us any other ideas that you have and we will make a more complete list to share!

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Eastern Swallowtail, Painted Lady Butterflies, and More!

7/14/2016

 
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The Monarch Butterfly Corridor Gardens are humming along and attracting all kinds of pollinators.

This Eastern Black Swallowtail is a beautiful female that you may see around the gardens. Ask Christina Delfico for her story!

Many RIGC gardeners have also added to their plots wild bergamot, varied milk weeds, echinacea, other native plants as well as fennel, dill, and curly parsley to attract pollinators and their caterpillars.

Please click on the photo below for more great information about pollinator plantings from the
Xerces Society.

The Monarch Butterfly Corridor Garden spaces were made possible with iDig2Learn funding from The City Gardens Club of NYC, Grow to Learn and Citizens Committee for NYC with partners RIOC, RIGC, Girl Scouts & 217PTA.
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Compost and Mulch: Care for Our Garden Soil

7/14/2016

 
Anthony Longo and other Compost Committee Members appreciate your constant help with our compost program. NYC Compost Project experts Devin Reitsma and Leah Retherford have both visited the RIGC system and given advice and commendations for what we are doing together.

We currently have compost that can be sifted and can show you how! Send an email or leave a message in the garden for Julia or Anthony or Michael. We can show you how this works.  We also have wood chips from RIOC chipping that are usable for mulching your paths or beds.  

​As you clean up, please keep following the signs to New Materials (inside) and Branches Only (outside). Take any and all smaller plants like hosta and smaller branches to the New Materials bin to compost. Please remember that if you clip up a bush or hosta plant or vine in your garden, then you should re-clip it or break it into smaller pieces for the compost pile.  

Branches should be at least an inch thick or more, otherwise they can be easily chopped up for Mother Nature's Salad!   This will help us immensely and keep items out of landfill when RIOC chips. No plastics, ornaments or used lumber in the branches please.  We have to sort when these mistakes happen. 

In addition all the black tumblers are now open for kitchen scraps: fruits, vegetables, rice, bread but no meat or dairy.  Bring these items down at any time.

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