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The Union Square Farmers Market in New York City is an ideal source of cheap and abundant harvests regional, herbs and flowers. Go there first in the morning and you will quickly discover that it elected to leave too well. Walk among the market stalls and weaving between packages Jumbo family Blew rosemary and sugar snaps Migliorelli Farms. Bring your kitchen waste and deposit it on the state of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, and while you picked up a bag of “black gold” (worm casting compost) for only 50 cents per pound. Then decide on the home-made garlic and duck fat ciabatta with a well-to-pass-up bouquet of fresh cut snapdragon. Bordered by 17th Street, Union Square West, 14th Street and Union Square East Directions: 4, 5, 6, N, R, L to Union Square

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CREST neighborhood hardware store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Metropolitan & Union Ave. is unique in a sea of chain superstores. When you hear TOP TEN FM radio and play “Mike”, whose singing it for over two decades, “Hello my darling!” Everyone is called friend, even “Finley” means. Grey parrot which was in residence for 5 years Isles 4, 5 and 6, a gardener of Eden were – with food plants, organic seeds and soil loading, hanging baskets, rods rain bursts that. Marble, gravel, green pipes and sprinklers, the prices are nice 558 Metropolitan Avenue Directions: L train Lorimer

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No wonder is felt that Martha Stewart released from prison as a rose. He wore his trademark everyday gardener provisions for K-Mart with an A – Z line really sweet and edible seed packets annually. And coming just for the urban gardener is individually packaged mini-series at home patch of green tomatoes and strawberries. K-Mart 8973 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn NY 11 214 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 Phone: 212-673-1540 250 W 34th St Fl CONC14, New York NY 10 119

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Wrapped around the back of 10,000 square meters of Chelsea Garden Center on the 38th and 10th Ave. are wooden barrels, urns made of black clay, Hungarian and Italian terracotta and glazed pots Vietnamese surprising tones and natural cedar boxes in all sizes. Either way, everyone is a certified gardener, mainly thanks to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens education program. For questions idiosyncratic garden and easy-going staff has a solution. 499, 10th Avenue, New York 10 018 – (212) 727-7100

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If you can not grow in its place. Cherry blossoms in May, rose in June each year, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden offers a journey to vibrant green lovers. BBG is 52 acres of urban horticulture and botanical resources. Apply online and to help in the gardens of volunteerism and education. Or to become a member and enjoy most of the members of the turnover picnic, tours and class discounts and pre-order, that the summer season crops. 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11 225 718-623-7200 · Directions: B or Q train to Prospect Park removed. (The B train does not work on weekends.) The 2 or 3 train to Eastern Parkway

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Seizure of abandoned lots and deserted town, plant flowers and vegetables, green spaces and revitalization of a neighborhood is usually illegal. That is, it happens since 1973 in the five districts of the unshakeable influence of the guerrilla green New York. Visit them online and find a community garden in your area and you are there stop by the 18 gardens at the annual “Green With Envy Tour over two Saturdays in late June – />

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The garden is like any great adventure and a pocket guide or a list of rules is always at hand.

1. Spend your money on good soil and the soil, the plant will feed.

2. For the love of the beauty of the exploitation of stone, wood, iron, terracotta and other natural materials in your garden.

3. Think color. Experience with monochromatic arrangements, themes, colors, contrast and color, two colors and three gardens of color.

4. something growing that attract butterflies – you will never regret
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a.
balm
b.
Cosmos
c.
Marigold
d.
Sunflower
e. Zinnia

5. Keep a diary of gardening. (Once winter rolls around you will thank you)

6. Break the rules once.