How-To Guides

• How to Build Rainwater Harvesting Systems - Wiki or PDF.

• How to Construct a Tree Bench

City Lot Fact Sheets

• A City Gardening Primer on Perennials

• Annuals Perennials Tolerant of Dry Conditions

• Birds in Urban Gardens

• Caring for roses in summer

• Diseases and Insects

• Early Spring Bulb Alert

• Essential Garden Tools And Maintainence

• Fences and Bollards

• Funding Aids

• Good Gardening Practices

• Grow Truck Tool Loan Agreement

• Growing Propagating in a Cold Frame

• Herbs in Urban Gardens

• Horticultural Oils

• Indoor plants in low light

• Insects and Diseases

• Lawn Care and Maintenance

• Managing Weeds

• Month to Month Gardening Schedule: what you should be doing every month to get the most out of your garden.

• Neighborhood Evaluation

• New Ways to Plant City Trees

• Noxious Weeds in your Garden

• Open Space project questionaire

• Phase Planning for an Open Space Prj

• Plan a Cutting Garden in NYC

• Plant A Lot Site Info

• Plant Propagation

• Plant a rock garden in NYC

• Plants for Shade Gardens

• Plants for window boxes and tree pits

• Poisonous And Injurious Garden Plants

• Prepare for Maintenance

• Preparing and Selling Herbs and Dried Flowers

• Putting Your Garden to Rest for Winter

• Rubble Mounds

• Spring flowering bulbs for NYC CG

• Water Conservation Techniques
  
  

Neighborhood Composting in New York City

By Douglas C. Daly and Elizabeth A. Christy. 38 pp. $3.00

Additional Publications

For more information on our neighborhood tree mapping project at PS 45:

Urban forest management in GIS for Environmental Management by Scally, Robert.
California: ESRI Press, 2006. Ch 8: pp.111-124.

To request copies of these publications please call 212-788-7900 or
email GrowNYC.

Newsletters

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• Winter 2005