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SPRINGTIME TIPS FOR growing your garden

By SHELBY SIMON Plan out your spring garden

Planting PHOTO BY CHRIS GR ANGER

and celebrate the outdoors surrounded by beautiful blooms. Proper preparation can start well before the weather warms. It can take time to consider available garden space, how much sunlight and shade your garden will receive, its ease of access to watering and weeding and what plants to choose for a successful growing season.

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FIRST, DECIDE WHERE TO PLANT YOUR GARDEN and ask questions like: How many hours of direct sunlight does the area receive and at what times of day? Are there any major obstacles in your way, such as trees or boulders? Will you easily be able to reach this space for watering and weeding? It’s important to consider those factors before you purchase plants and break dirt.

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NEXT, DESIGN YOUR GARDEN USING THE AVAILABLE SPACE. Decide the shape and parameters of your garden and what you need — think stones or a fence — to separate it from the rest of your yard. If you have pets that may be interested in trampling or digging up your harvest, you may need to elevate your garden in planters’ boxes. Based on the square footage of your garden, you can determine how much soil or mulch to purchase. You can even add personal touches such as a fountain or water feature, decorative planters, stones or garden gnomes — or for Louisiana flair, an alligator or frog.

Though many plants thrive in our hot and humid Louisiana climate, you can strategize your planting to allow your garden to support itself with minimal intervention.

A functional garden hosts plants that complement each other when growing side by side, also known as companion planting. Examples of this natural synergy include spinach and strawberries, peas and radishes, or beets and corn.

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DEEP-ROOTED VEGETABLES, such as carrots, can strategically be planted near shallow-rooted choices, such as lettuce, to maximize space in your garden. Strongly scented plants, such as herbs, can prevent pests such as insects, and they can also improve the flavor of your vegetables, such as basil planted near tomatoes or dill planted near cucumbers.

Be careful of choosing plants that produce toxins near other plants, especially ones you plan to eat, and research the spacing of your selections carefully to make sure your plants will not inhibit the growth of other nearby plants.

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SPOTLIGHT on EXPLORING ONE OF THE CITY’S COOLEST NEIGHBORHOODS

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Mid-City may not be exactly in the middle of New Orleans, but the neighborhood’s central location is still one of the main draws for residents.

While many locals have their own strong opinions on the boundaries of New Orleans’ neighborhoods, The Historic District Landmarks Commission (HDLC) defines Mid-City as extending from Broad Street to City Park Avenue, and from the Pontchartrain Expressway to around Orleans Avenue.

It’s home to major commercial corridors on Carrollton and City Park avenues and Broad Street, and the transit line connecting Uptown to Gentilly goes through the neighborhood, connecting it to the Canal streetcar line.

“You can really get to anywhere within the city within 10 or 15 minutes, even using public transit,” says Chris Blum, board president of the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization.

The neighborhood also has plenty of outdoor recreational space, with quick access to City Park, Bayou St. John and the Lafitte Greenway. Old-growth oak trees line popular thoroughfares, like Bienville, Banks and Canal streets.

“The existence of their old growth oak trees just shows that it’s in line with [the character of] the rest of the city and what people think of as Old South and old New Orleans,” Blum says.

Adding to the character of the neighborhood is the architecture, much of it dating back to the late 1800s and early 1900s.

There are Italianate shotgun doubles and singles, late-19th century Victorian frame houses, early 20th century Craftsmen cottages, California bungalows, and Spanish Revival homes and apartments dating back to the early 1900s, according to Richard Campanella, a geographer and author who teaches at the Tulane School of Architecture.

“I would describe Mid-City as exhibiting a sort of fusion between the older, denser, more urban ambience of the downtown

Mid-City features a variety of colorful, eclectic homes in a range of architectural styles.

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City Park, part of which lies within the Mid-City boundaries, is 1,300 acres and home to a sculpture garden, the New Orleans Museum of Art, a botanical garden and the Louisiana Children’s Museum, among other attractions.

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Bayou St. John is a waterway conducive to recreational outdoor activities like kayaking, jogging and picnics.

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SPOTLIGHT on faubourgs, and the leafier, more spacious environs of Uptown,” Campanella says.

According to The Data Center, the neighborhood was home to 14,845 residents from 2014 to 2018, nearly 5,000 less than lived there in 2000.

During that period, the majority of residents were younger than 50, with around 43% 18-34 years old and around 22% 35-49.

From 2014 to 2018, Mid-City was whiter than the city as a whole. Around 48% of the residents were Black compared to 59% throughout Orleans Parish. However, 13.6% of residents were Hispanic, more than twice the 5.5% throughout the parish.

NEIGHBORHOOD

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Mid-City was once low-lying swamp land, so early settlement was on the highest land. In the 19th century, locals referred to the area as “Back of Town,” a mostly sparse place with some dairy Angelo Brocato (photographed in 2019) on N. Carrollton Avenue is a beloved dessert shop that honors Sicilian heritage with gelato and other treats.

PHOTO BY CHRIS GR ANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

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farms and cemeteries, according to The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. Native Americans lived on higher ground near Bayou St. John before Europeans immigrated to the area.

“Mid-City developed from the outside in because that’s where the topographic ridges were,” Campanella says. People first started settling around off Metairie Ridge, in the area that’s now City Park Avenue, and around Bayou St. John, where the Esplanade Ridge gave the area some elevation.

People began to lay out street grids and build houses in the late 1800s after the Civil War. Then, with the installation of improved drainage systems around 1900, swampy areas were drained out and development expanded. By 1920, Mid-City was completely developed and home to several companies, including The American Can Co., New Orleans Roofing and Metal Works Co. and Southern Sheet Metal Works, according to the data center. Commercial development followed along Broad and Canal streets and Tulane Avenue.

The Canal Street streetcar began operating in 1861 but was replaced with the bus system in 1964. The city brought back the streetcar in 2004, only for services to be disrupted after Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures devastated

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the area. Blum says the return of the streetcar was one of the biggest changes to the neighborhood in the past 20 years.

“Installing the Canal Street streetcar was a huge effort and really changed the neighborhood for the better,” Blum says.

“Putting in a major transit line right down Canal Street that was only serviced by bus previously definitely changed the aesthetic of the neighborhood for the positive.”

More than 15 years later, markers of Katrina still exist in the abandoned Lindy Boggs Medical Center on Bienville Street and some vacant commercial properties on Canal Street.

Clesi’s Seafood is a casual eatery that draws diners to Mid-City.

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Like throughout the city, housing costs are rising. There’s a variety of housing types, from larger apartment complexes opening in the last several years to larger single-family homes close to City Park Avenue.

According to the Data Center, nearly three-fourths of Mid-City residents rented their homes between 2014 and 2018, compared with 53% of Orleans Parish residents and 36% nationwide.

Average contract rent in the neighborhood was $875, and average rent plus utilities — electricity, gas, water, sewer and fuels — was $1,033, which is similar to averages in Orleans Parish. More than 54% of renters and 38% of owners were paying 30% or more of their income on housing.

The average income in the neighborhood was $55,186, significantly less than the citywide average of $69,101.

Blum says he worries about a lack of affordable housing in the neighborhood.

“I love the neighborhood. What I hate seeing is people not being able to afford to live here and people getting pushed out due to the affordability crisis, especially when we saw property sitting vacant or underutilized,” he says.

Blum says that the spread of shortterm rentals in the area helped drive an inventory scarcity, which increased costs.

He says the city’s latest regulations on the properties are a step in the right direction, but that further enforcement is needed to “keep that from really gutting the neighborhood.”

“We want to keep this a livable place and not just a playground,” he says.

THE FOOD

scene

The history of the area’s food scene helped shape the neighborhood in its early years and its current identity. In the late 1800s, many Italian immigrants came to New Orleans from Sicily, in part to flee from government corruption. They settled in apartments in the lower French Quarter, which began to be known as “Little

Palermo.” As time went on, some Italian immigrants moved out of the Quarter and into Mid-City, as it began to develop thanks to the creation of pumping systems keeping the land dry.

The Sicilian influence is still abundant today in the neighborhood’s food scene staples. Sebastian Mandina came from Palermo and opened up Mandina’s in 1898, first as a grocery store, then as a pool hall that sold sandwiches and then as a restaurant in 1932. Iconic gelato shop Angelo Brocato originally opened in 1905 in the French Quarter but relocated to MidCity in 1979 and has been there ever since.

It’s nearby Venezia, which opened in 1957, and on any given day you can often find customers at the Creole-Italian restaurant wandering over for dessert.

Parkway Bakery and Tavern is another neighborhood institution, dating back to 1911, and Katie’s on Iberville Street has been around since 1984. The neighborhood was also the birthplace to the first location of The Ruby Slipper Café, when Jennifer and Erich Weishaupt revived a blighted corner store in 2008, while the area was still recovering from the storm. In more recent years, spots like Mopho, Mid City Pizza and Clesi’s Seafood have also became popular.

“We just have a lot of great options throughout the neighborhood with a lot of different variety,” Blum says.

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NEIGHBORHOOD BARS AND RESTAURANTS: Angelo Brocato 214 N. Carrollton Ave.

Mid City Pizza 4400 Banks St.

Bayou Beer Garden 326 N. Norman C. Francis Parkway

Mid City Yacht Club 440 S. St. Patrick St.

Bevi Seafood Co. 236 N. Carrollton Ave. Brown Butter Southern Kitchen 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C Clesi’s Seafood 4323 Bienville St. Finn McCool’s Irish Pub 3701 Banks St.

Mopho 514 City Park Ave. Neyow’s Creole Cafe 3332 Bienville St. Parkway Bakery and Tavern 538 Hagan Ave. The Ruby Slipper Cafe 315 S. Broad Ave. Trep’s 4327 Bienville St.

Katie’s 3701 Iberville St.

Trilly Cheesesteaks 4413 Banks St.

Mandina’s 3800 Canal St.

The Station 4400 Bienville St.

Mick’s Irish Pub 4801 Bienville St.

Venezia 134 N. Carrollton Ave.

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By SARAH RAVITS For the past year, New Orleanians have been finding

creative ways amid the COVID-19 pandemic to socialize — and those who quickly became fatigued by Zoom happy hours found solace in the warm weather that allows us to gather outside more safely in small groups for real-life interactions.

Bin Hang, owner of BC Kitchen & Bath (3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-338-6227; bckitchenbath.com) has noticed a considerable uptick in customers requesting outdoor elements to maximize their entertaining.

“We’ve been doing a lot of outdoor countertops,” Hang says.

Some of the requests include installing outdoor bars and adding additional spaces, like islands, to pre-existing outdoor kitchens, she says.

“People want to hang out outside the house and have barbecues,” she says. “We’ve done a lot more since the pandemic.”

Outdoor kitchens are especially popular right now, because the weather is getting nicer, and they are safer for small gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bin Hang of BC Kitchens & Baths says she’s been getting more requests to install outdoor bar areas.

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Grilling and barbecuing are popular, family-friendly activities this time of year.

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An open-air bar and kitchen area PHOTO BY SHERRI MILLER

It gives people a sense of normalcy, she says, and it’s also conducive to family-friendly gatherings, where kids can run around the yard while parents fire up the barbecue or grill.

BC Kitchen & Bath doesn’t sell appliances, but she says she’s noticed people are leaning toward stainless steel products for outdoor entertaining because they fare better when the elements do get harsher.

She also recommends installing outdoor countertops or bar areas made of quartzite, a higher-end natural stone that is far more durable than other options — and more aesthetically pleasing. This spring, she expects she’ll get even more requests for outdoor accoutrements, especially as crawfish season starts and people are looking forward to enjoying the weather after being cooped up inside all winter.

“Especially with seafood, it’s easy to cook outside,” she says. “People like outdoor bars.

They like cooking and having a bar area so they can sit there and chat.”

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