Our friends at Poplar Street Community Garden have sent us this message:
We will indeed have another workday in the Poplar St. Community Garden this coming Saturday 4-14 (noon to 3pm). With the compost now turned and going onto plots and other growing areas, we’ll next give the roses their spring pruning, check the fruiting shrubs and trees, spread wood chips on some paths, and more – all while enjoying the Garden’s new life and each other!
Join us! Stroll the Garden, delight in the emerging greenery and colorful blooms, talk gardening talk with us, lend a hand if you wish!
Would you like to become a member? We welcome people who like to garden! Member-gardeners work together to care for the whole of the Garden, from the trees on down to the soil life, each engaging with whatever features are of personal interest. Previous gardening experience and skills are not required, tho’ certainly most appreciated. We learn from each other and from the Garden itself.
A personal plot, if available, is one of the benefits of membership, and two are available at this moment, first come first serve. Members without plots are accommodated in other ways, such as in our communal plots, tho’ some are content just to care for other aspects of the Garden.
In the Garden, we grow native plants and traditional garden favorites, fruiting trees and shrubs, cooking and medicinal herbs, and perennial as well as annual vegetables – all in the good company of many kinds of pollinating insects and birds. The Garden has a beehive, nice benches, stepping stone and earthen paths, charm, beauty, magic, joy!
During the growing season, we welcome visitors on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 3pm, Tuesday and Thursday evening from 6pm to 8pm, and any other time one of us is there to open the gate. We hold dedicated workdays, trainings, and a gardening party too.
See our Facebook page – but better yet, come to the Garden – this Saturday!
The Poplar St. Community Garden lives at the northwest corner of Hicks and Poplar Streets, at the north end of Brooklyn Heights where Hicks Street bumps into the BQE off-ramp. Enter on Poplar Street.
See you in the Garden!
The weather people say Saturday will be a gorgeous day. What better than to visit a garden and, if you wish, help the gardeners?
Photo: Karl Junkersfeld
