Join the garden committee to start indoor planting!
The 2023 Seed-Starting Workshop Is On!
Monday, March 20th, 5:30 to 7:30pm
in the 230 Jay Street community room
We’re starting tomatoes, peppers, and flowers such as zinnia and marigold. Participants will plant the seedlings at the workshop, then raise the plant on their windowsill at home. A couple of months later, in late May/early June, we will transplant the mature seedlings into the garden inside the children’s play area behind 195 Adams St.
Register Now for the 3/20 Planting Workshop
At the 3/20 workshop, the garden committee will provide guidance, organic soil, organic fertilizer, and organic seeds.
We ask for $10 per person or $30 per household – which can serve as your garden membership dues for 2023. CVEarthlab Garden is self-funded. We ask residents who use the garden to donate money to help cover annual expenses.
How to Register for the Workshop
Please pay in advance; if you cannot attend the live event, we will pack a to-go bag with everything you need to start at home. Checks, made out to CVOI, can be dropped off at the office or left at the 175 Adam St door station (for Denise Maher, 8-C). To pay electronically, Venmo @Lee-Stern-4
After payment is made, RSVP to CVEarthlab@gmail.com, including the names and ages of participants, contact info, and payment method.
Raised bed suggestion from NYC gardener/ school garden consultant, Fred Wolf of NatureBased:
We have been using galvanized steel stock tanks as sub irrigated planter systems at our school sites with rat issues. They are virtually vermin proof.
If there is a budget to completely replace all your beds with these growing systems that would be really the only way to prevent rats from burrowing in your beds. Anything on the ground is ripe for their nests.
He says they also need to be raised off the ground and placed away from things the rodents can climb on (like the fence). To elevate the beds, he uses different stuff: 4×4 beams, cinder blocks, bricks, etc.
Should we investigate? Maybe replace one contaminated bed with one tank this season, as a pilot?
Video of how to sub irrigate is below. Photos are examples of tanks (not nec sub-irrigated) used at PS 307.
Garden committee members are hosting happy hour Tuesday evening at 5:30pm. All garden curious residents are welcome to attend to get a sense of the duties involved with volunteering.
What: Get to Know the Garden & Gardeners
When: Tuesday February 28th , 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Where: 230 Jay Street Community Room
Why: Pre-Season Planning, Volunteer Recruiting
Please consider joining the garden committee this year!
Do you have one hour a week to help build a greener community and grow culinary herbs? Are you interested in getting involved with garden care? A community garden requires many small, time-sensitive daily tasks such as watering, but there are also jobs you can do when your schedule allows, like prepping natural fungicide spray or taking photos for the blog.
Are you willing and able to help this spring? If you think you might want to get your hands dirty, or are curious about how it works, please stop by. Volunteered in the past? Bring a new neighbor! The garden is a great way to meet others and get to know the CV community. All residents are welcome — no green thumb required.
Do you have one hour a week to help build a greener community and grow culinary herbs? Are you interested in getting involved with garden care? A community garden requires many small, time-sensitive daily tasks such as watering, but there are also jobs you can do when your schedule allows, like prepping natural fungicide spray or taking photos for the blog.
What: Get to Know the Garden & Gardeners (& sip wine!)
When: Tuesday February 28th , 5:30pm to 6:30pm (earlier than similar mid-Feb meeting)
Why: Pre-Season Planning, Volunteer Recruiting
Are you willing and able to help this spring? If you think you might want to get your hands dirty, or are curious about how it works, please stop by. Volunteered in the past? Bring a new neighbor! The garden is a great way to meet others and get to know the CV community. All residents are welcome — no green thumb required.
What: Get to Know the Garden and the Gardeners (+ sip wine!)
Why: Pre-Season Planning, Volunteer Recruiting
When: Monday, Presidents’ Day, 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm*
Are you interested in getting involved with CV garden planning and care? Can you step up once or twice a week to do one of many small daily tasks required, such as watering or checking the irrigation timer or inspecting leaves for signs of disease? Or take care of things like prepping treatment spray bottles when your schedule allows. We need you too!
We’re hosting a causal garden committee meeting on Monday Feb 20th, from 6:45pm to 7:45pm in the community room. We will chat about hopes for the upcoming season and see how many volunteers are willing and able to help.
Wine will be served!
If you think you might want to get your hands dirty this year, or are curious about how it all works, please stop by!
If you’ve volunteered in the past, come and bring a curious neighbor! The garden is a great way to meet your CV neighbors and get to know the community. All residents are welcome — no green thumbs are required.
As in previous years, we hope to hold a seed-starting workshop, snap pea planting activities, flower transplanting, worm hunting, butterfly conservation and more — but we cannot do these things without community participation and volunteer energy.
The goal of the get together is to see who can help this spring, and what our top priorities are.
Tell us at the meeting or send an email message to cvearthlab@gmail.com
*We hope to hold an additional early evening mixer later this month for others who cannot attend, looking at Tues Feb 28 @545pm. Thx!
All Residents Are Invited to Participate in the CVEarthlab Community Garden
Located behind 195 Adams Street, inside the children’s playarea, CVEarthlab is a self-funded, community vegetable garden open to all residents of Concord Village. We welcome all ages and all experience levels. Residents with or without small children can take part. Over the years we’ve found that the more people who participate, the easier and more fun it is. Teamwork makes the dream work!
Join us Monday night for a mixer – a casual garden committee get together.
What: Get to Know the Garden and the Gardeners (+ sip wine!)
Why: Pre-Season Planning, Volunteer Recruiting
When: Monday, 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm*
Where: CV Community Room, 230 Jay Street
Are you interested in getting involved with CV garden planning and care? Maybe you are more of a worker bee, who can step up once or twice a week to do one of many small daily tasks required, such as watering or checking the irrigation timer or inspecting leaves for signs of disease? Or an independent sort who wants to take care of things like prepping treatment spray bottles when your schedule allows. We need you too!
We’re hosting a causal garden committee meeting on Monday Feb 20th, from 6:45pm to 7:45pm.We will chat about hopes for the upcoming season and see how many volunteers are willing and able to help.
Wine will be served!
If you think you might want to get your hands dirty this year, or are curious about how it all works, please stop by!
If you’ve volunteered in the past, come and bring a curious neighbor! The garden is a great way to meet your CV neighbors and get to know the community. All residents are welcome — no green thumbs are required.
As in previous years, we hope to hold a seed-starting workshop, snap pea planting activities, flower transplanting, worm hunting, butterfly conservation and more — but we cannot do these things without community participation and volunteer energy.
The goal of the get together is to see who can help this spring, and what our top priorities are.
Unfortunately many of the raised beds, including the popular herb bed outside the fence, were contaminated by rodents. Before we plant anything, we have to empty and remove the contents, clean the beds, treat them with bleach, and replace the organic soil. There will be more pre-season grunt work than usual.
*We hope to hold an additional early evening mixer later this month for others who cannot attend, esp parents of young children who may be occupied with bedtime routines.
About CVEarthlab Community Garden
Located behind 195 Adams Street, inside the children’s playarea, CVEarthlab is a self-funded, community vegetable garden open to all residents of Concord Village. We welcome all ages and all experience levels. Residents with or without small children can take part. Over the years we’ve found that the more people who participate, the easier and more fun it is. Teamwork makes the dream work!
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Sweetie was discovered today, on plants in the herb box behind 225 Adams Street. Sweetie eats parsley, carrot tops, and dill — to fuel their transformation into a swallowtail butterfly.We’ve placed them in a habitat outside the play area. If Sweetie is of interest, you have about one day — possibly less — to observe them before they go into chrysalis. They’ll be in their “cocoon” type enclosure for 1-2 weeks before emerging…Or, they could chose to overwinter and turn into a butterfly in the spring. Check’em out soon! We didn’t have many butterflies visit or leave eggs this year, probably because of the construction — so lets celebrate this one!
To donate, you can leave checks, made out to CVOI, with CVEarthlab in the memo line, at the CV office. Or, you can arrange for a garden member to pick up an envelope from your doorman by sending a note to cvearthlab@gmail.com . We also accept donations via Venmo electronic payment service. To donate via Venmo app, use Shari’s Rueckl’s username: @misssha
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