.......busy in the garden

I've been so busy in my garden, or should I say gardens? From famine to feast.....I have been yearning, whinging, whimpering, begging for a garden since I moved to NYC. Ten years of envy and dark thoughts. I have been on the waiting list at one plot for 2 years! Then one day my neighbor gave me the number for the president of the Campus Garden at Brooklyn College, and next thing you know I got a plot! It's 7'x7', and it's in the shade most of the day, but it's lovely nonetheless, and it is 3 blocks from my apartment building! It is a wonderful community of people and restorative in many ways. Then, out of the blue,  I got a call from the Floyd Bennett Field Garden and got another plot! So here I am running all over Brooklyn, buying plants and seeds and reading books and combing the internet for anything and everything related to gardening.

Here is my FBFG plot - 10 feet by 20 feet with vegetables, flowers and herbs... there is also an old grape vine from the previous gardener ( he was there for many years apparently, and made small batches of wine every year!) and I am busy trying to figure out how to promote my vine!

 

there is also a buddha, who lends me a mental hand.

 

It makes me so inordinately happy...

Floyd Bennett field also makes my dog so inordinately happy

 I still can't believe we're in Brooklyn when we're out there....

or here...

I haven't forgotten about knitting...the lace ribbon scarf from the spring Knitty