In a community garden tucked between the elevated M train and Bushwick II housing projects, Jeanne Salchli considers whether to replant recently dug-up daffodil buds.

“They go through a restratification process, and if we disturb them right now,” Salchli said. “I don’t think that’s going to work.”

Salchli, a science teacher at P.S. 376, manages the Himrod Wilson Community Garden in Bushwick, a once-overgrown lot that she has transformed into a thriving green space over the past decade.

Now filled with raised garden beds containing budding tomatoes, peppers and magnolias, the garden is completely unrecognizable from the first time Salchli spotted the space in 2014.

“It was derelict, completely overgrown,” said Salchli, who saw the lot on her daily walk to work.

Now, the educator has

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