It’s been an amazing few years of community and neighborhood, and we want to kick off the season fiesta style!!

Local delectables will abound….

Locally raised pig roasted by a DC celebrity neighborhood chef, roast chicken with achiote provided by Seasonal Pantry, and veggie taco fixin’s made with DC grown veggies and herbs.

Bring a Cinco de Mayo inspired dish made with your favorite local ingredients!!

Bring your friends for a fun filled night of mariachi music, delicious eats, and some great drinks to quench your thirst (think cervezas, margaritas, limeade).

All proceeds will support Wangari Gardens, a local gardening project co-founded by OLD CITY green’s very own gardener Sarah!  Check them out on facebook at http://facebook.com/wangarigardens.

For more info, follow the RSVP link to the left.

See you there!!

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- www.earthday.org

• Oyster Mushrooms and other varieties of fungi have been proven to break down oil and other contaminates.
• Oil eating microbes  
• Utilizing various vegetation to filter the soil and bring in beneficial organisms such as worms
  
  We think there is a greener way!

  Check out our other

  videos on the left hand side!

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Thank you Shaw Main Streets

for giving us the  

*Shaw Community Partner Award*

• Now at OLD CITY green! 
  20% OFF
   Live Lady bugs

  and
  Praying mantis eggs
  Did you know a single lady bug can eat up to 5,000 aphids in it’s lifetime??
  The praying mantis can turn it’s head
   300 degrees, and hunts everything from moths, aphids, mosquitoes, and more!
  (Not too mention sometimes the female will eat her partner after mating!)
  A great solution to the garden pest problem!

Help give these cute,  

beneficial critters a home!! 

• We’re thrilled to be part of @Live Green’s  Green Rush for Earth Day this year! 
  Don’t miss this amazing scavenger hunt and the chance at $1,000 grand prize. Ticket sales end soon - get yours here: livegreen.net/greenrush2012  

• Wondering why the maple trees might be looking a little different this year??
  Check out this great piece by Sandy Farber, Extension educator, DC Master Gardener program coordinator at the bottom of this page!

A SEEDY START TO SPRING.  Throughout the city I have noticed a strange look and color to many maple tree canopies.  Upon closer inspection the cause is clearly due to most maples having a very seedy appearance!  Due to the incredible warm, dry weather this spring, maple flowers were fully pollinated, which in turn means every single MAPLE SAMARA or winged seed, whirligigs or maple helicopters, is currently under development.  This extreme seed load and their subsequent development and ripening, is expected to result in sparse, dinky foliage development on maple trees this spring.  Normal leaf development is slowed and reduced by the quadrillion maple seeds ripening, using most of the stored resources of the tree.  The seeds mature, turn brown and then fall off to cover every square inch of the earth, easily filling and plugging all rain gutters.  However, the anxiety is most intense after the seeds fall because there is no apparent reason for the “thinning canopy” and lack of leaves.  Many will be concerned about the overall health of their trees, while others erroneously associate heavy seed production with the last hurrah of stressed, dying trees.

  

Maple trees are capable of producing many seeds each year, but the limiting factor tends to be the weather, specifically those quick freezes and frosts after seed set.  Without some type of freeze or frost to kill or injure these developing seeds, the die is cast for scores of samaras to rain down from the trees.  This year just happened to be one that favored maple seed development.  Remember that heavy seed production is not necessarily a good indicator of tree health nor should it be used as an indicator of impending tree death.  It just means that well-timed freezes are needed to reduce the seed numbers, or hope for a really strong wind to blow them all to the neighbor’s yard!

  

By Sandy Farber, Extension educator, DC master gardener program coordinator. 

 

This week and next week, Facebook fans get 10% off mulch and shrubs!

Spring is here!

Thank you for visiting the official

OLD CITY green Website!

We are an Urban Garden Center, in NW D.C.

202.412.CITY

OLD CITY green, First Day of Business, November 1st, 2008(Left),
1,250th Day of Business, April 4th, 2012(Right)

Garden Center

We’ve come a long way!

We are officially open for Spring
Monday - - Closed
Tuesday - - 11 - 6:30
Wednesday - - 11 - 6:30
Thursday - - 11 - 7:30 (CSA Pick-up)
Friday - - 11 - 6:30
Saturday - - 9 - 5
Sunday - - 9 - 5

This Season will be full of events, workshops, and sales!

So check our Blog below,
or sign-up for our Email-Blast to stay in the loop!

10% OFF Seeds and Herbs - all day!

1:00 pm > Seed Bomb workshop and neighborhood guerrilla gardening w. Knowledge Commons DC.

4:00 pm > Herbal Tea Party by OCg w. City Blossoms furnishing fresh grown, local herbs direct from the neighborhood! Donations to help cover the cost of teas are appreciated.

Thank you for visiting the official

OLD CITY green Website!

OLD CITY green, First Day of Business, November 1st, 2008

We’ve come a long way!

We will be reopening on March 24th, 2012
This Spring will be full of events and workshops…

So check our Blog below,
or sign-up for our Email-Blast to stay in the loop!

We are gearing up

for Spring!

Mark your calendars

and get excited!

Soft Opening & OCg Yard Sale

Sat. March 17th,

Clothes, CDs, odds and ends, and garden supplies!

Official Opening

Re-Opening Celebration

It’s titled “A Story of Mythical Proportions”

Click Here to Read!