What’s blue, sweet, healthy, and native to Brooklyn? Highbush blueberries! Vaccinium corymbosum is beautiful and bears delicious fruit bursting with nutrients. Read Making Brooklyn Blue
Plants & Gardens Blog
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Making Brooklyn Blue
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Saving Seed for a Stronger City
Last spring, I helped launch North Brooklyn Farms (NBk) on the grounds of the defunct Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg. Once a weedy symbol of lost industry, it’s now a showcase for how to grow a variety of edibles. Read Saving Seed for a Stronger City
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Using Beneficial Parasites to Attack Garden Pests
Tiny nematode worms kill black vine weevils without pesticides Read Using Beneficial Parasites to Attack Garden Pests
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Summer Spinach
Malabar spinach is an easy-to-grow green that grows more easily in hot weather than true spinach—and it's gorgeous. Read Summer Spinach
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Street Tree Bed Care: Tales from the Trenches
Everything you ever wanted to know about gardening on a city street...but were afraid to ask Read Street Tree Bed Care: Tales from the Trenches
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The View from the Green Roof
What does BBG's green roof look like up close? Read The View from the Green Roof
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Recipe: Blue Sunrise Cocktail with Pickled Blueberries
Berries and other summer fruits can be pickled and used in tasty cocktails year-round. Read Recipe: Blue Sunrise Cocktail with Pickled Blueberries
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Collecting in the Wild
The plants growing in the Native Flora Garden expansion were collected in the wild by BBG horticulturists and botanists along with our partners at the Greenbelt Native Plant Center. Read Collecting in the Wild
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Q&A with Darrel Morrison, Designer of BBG’s Native Flora Garden Expansion
A conversation with Darrel Morrison, designer of BBG's Native Flora Garden expansion. Read Q&A with Darrel Morrison, Designer of BBG’s Native Flora Garden Expansion
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Using Newspaper as Mulch
Newspaper makes an excellent, weed-suppressing mulch and can also be used to keep prolific garden plants in check. Read Using Newspaper as Mulch