At 7:15 am the last of the Lenape Blues were placed in a car service trunk in Carroll Gardens. The car then proceeded to speed and weave down the Brooklyn coastline. Why didn't I just hold them on my lap for the ride down to Canarsie? It must be because I just love to feel anxious about things. When we popped the trunk on E 91st street I expected to see them flipped over and tossed about. But they were fine. Isak showed up at 8am and we gingerly eased the blue beauties into the new mounds. Today we have 32 Lenape Blues planted on their historical planting grounds. It was a great day. Of course we can't catch a total break because it was also windy as hell at the garden. The wind wasted no time flattening our new seedlings to the ground. We put up some burlap around the edge of the garden as an added buffer. I affixed a new makeshift sign (none of the laminated signs lasted). The Canarsee Planting land is up and running again. I even got a few compliments from people passing by the garden. The new seedlings will need at least a week to adjust and hopefully will get past any transplant shock. Stay tuned to see how they fare.
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