Smith and Bergen after the rain

Smith and Bergen: 1 week later

The garden survived its first week and the corn is up! There has been good response in general. I did get one hate email calling it a nuisance. Judging from the amount of cigarette butts I sweep up every morning I assume people are hanging out there at night. No butts in the garden as of yet... Sunflowers are also growing well.

Checking in

Went down to check on the site. This kid helped me water the plants.

digging up seeds, Canarsie

The corn is not coming up so well in Canarsie. I dug around in one of the mounds and found two bloated seeds that had not germinated. I'm going to have to decide what to do. Perhaps more will come up? In any case this is going to throw off the planting schedule. What will happen next?

Meantime... in Canarsie

Sunflowers are up. Mohawk beans are up.

Installation Day, later

We finished up around 1:30 and left it on its own.

Installing the garden & planting the Gigi Hill blue flint corn

Didn't really know what it would look like until this moment. Actually 10 mounds can fit into the garden bed! Plus the border plants.
And we decided to go with direct seeding. Jeff, Isak, Marika and the photographer for Courier Life newspapers all pitched in with the planting of the Gigi Hill blue flint corn seeds. Of course I forgot to take pictures...