Hoboken Horticultural Preserve. Not only are the plants and setting traditional, but also her methods of growing, she noted. Rather than Miracle Grow, she uses garden waste and chicken manure for fertilizer, and she knows what those chickens have been eating, because she feeds them out behind her house. Healthy soil helps create healthy worms, and in her flower beds, the worms are so large they sometimes startle the customers, she said. Digging in the garden will never make her rich, but it's a satisfying way to spend the day, she said.
Flowers are food for the soul.
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