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The Maintenance Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees is involved in a partnership with
the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Urban Resources
Initiative (URI - an initiative of the Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies) and the New Haven Land Trust to fund
and coordinate community gardens and greenspaces. |
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Doreen Larson-Oboyski
Phone: 203-946-2203 |
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Approximately one hundred gardens and greenspaces are maintained throughout New Haven neighborhoods with new ones being added each year. The Community Garden Program enhances the ability of New Haven residents to improve their neighborhood through:
- Self Sufficiency & Food
to increase self-reliance, the ability to grow your own food and imrpove
nutrition
- Community Building & Empowerment
to develop leadership and decision making skills, to create connections
and cooperation among neighbors
- Environmental / Neighborhood Restoration and Stewardship
to reclaim vacant lots and promote equitable public
access to open space, to create a more livable and healthy neighborhood.
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- Early March:
- Start Petunias and Verbena indoors.
- Prune your fruit trees now while they are still dormant.
- Start onion seeds indoors.
- Mid March:
- Start warm season veggies such as tomatoes, lettuce & peppers indoors.
- Cut ornamental grasses to the ground.
- Late March:
- Plant peas, radish seeds, and onion sets in the garden after tilling and adding compost and 10-10-10 fertilizer.
- Cut back your butterfly bushes.
- Early to Mid April:
- Plant spinach, chard, potatoes, carrots, radishes, parsnips, Bachelor Button and Larkspur.
- End of April:
- Fertilize bulbs as they emerge this month and next month with 5-10-10 fertilizer.
- Plant out broccoli and cabbage started in February.
- Put out hummingbird feeders to prepare for their return.
- Prune Forsythia after it blooms.
- Plant out those onions you started in March.
- Plant snap peas now as long as the ground has warmed to 60 degrees.
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Click here to see the photo gallery of featured Community Gardens and Greenspaces of New Haven.
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