So I volunteered today at the Restoration Farm in Old Bethpage. The keepers of the farm, Dan and Caroline, are great people, really, really great people. I grew up around there and remember visiting The Old Bethpage Village Restoration, but I never knew there were farm animals around; pigs, cows, chickens, and horses. What a fantastic place! Not to mention its a great open space in Nassau County and some of the houses there are from the 19th century. As soon as I walked in, I felt I had taken a step back into time, to simple times.
We planted about 2,000 garlic cloves in 3-4 hours in a mixed bag of weather. I did some raking of beds and planting of garlic. After we finished planting a bed garlic, Dan would run the “spreader” over it with some aged manure. After we were done, the garlic received a nice shower to settle into their new homes. It was a beautiful day.
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1 gail rosenberg // May 1, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Do you sell seedlings of plants and organic vegetables? I am interested in starting a very small organic garden at my house. Please contact me if you know of any reputable place to get the above mentions. Thanks
Gail Rosenberg
2 admin // May 12, 2009 at 1:01 am
Hi Gail,
I order seeds from seedsofchange.com
Additionally, I have been saving my own seed where I can. I just let a few arugala plants go to seed, one carrot plant will give you like a hundred seeds or so. If you grew them organically, you can develop your own strain of seed that evoles to grow well in your climate.
As far as transplants, my suggestion would be to call up the local farms and see if they would sell you transplants, or ask them where they get theirs from. You’re going to be hard pressed to find organic seedlings at your local nursery, but with organic now the trend you might…call places up and ask.
My suggestion if you really want to start from organic seed is to buy the seeds from seedsofchange.com and plant directly into your garden, or start them under the lights next year (when you have more time for that). You can get a lot of food from a small space so good luck and if you want to keep up to date with our latest articles, subscribe below and you will get an email every time I write an article. If you want to get involved and write about your experiences of gardening on Long Island I would consider publishing them on this blog as well.
Thanks,
David
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