An update from Semilla Pocket Park — The Bronx, NY
The biggest challenge, two professional horticulturists advised me, wouldn’t be watering the plants. It’d be the dogs.
Last month, we planted at the new garden I’m starting (still of questionable legality, as we still have not heard back from New York City’s Department of Transportation).
I walked to another garden to pick up the “starter” plants.
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