Houston Community Garden

July 3rd, 2012

Hello everyone,

It is HOT out there with no immediate end in sight and no guarantee of rain (Saturday looks like our best shot). I could use as much help as I can getting the garden some water every day. Especially the 4X4 square foot boxes, which tend to dry out a bit quicker than the larger boxes in the ground.

Obviously, early am (like between 6 and 9 am) and late evening will work best. Cardy Lewison and I watered this morning, Roger two days ago, Deb Stil...

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The garden seems to be doing well, despite some unknown insect critter that is enjoying the beans and pepper and basil (and other plant) leaves. (Theresa Mc Mannimon is going to come out on Thursday to do some detective work with me.)

This Thursday will begin the Thursday work/harvest days from 3 pm until 5-6 pm. We'll have peas, lettuce and some radishes ready to harvest for the food shelf. Probably a handful of kale as well. We'll cut the scapes off the garlic,too...

Houston Community Garden update

May 24, 2012

Hello Garden Friends!

May has been a very busy month, so I wanted to take a few minutes to update you on the the happenings at the garden:

Laurel Oein and Roger Meyer did a tremendous amount of work early on in spring, removing all the spools we had been using for the old water tank and “tables” around the garden. The garden looks so much nicer without them cluttering up the perimeter!

They also built a won...

Matt Schutte's 2nd grade class from Houston Elementary spent the day on May 14th planting seeds and the starter plants they nurtured at school!  From director Audrey Alfson, "Thanks to Matt Schutte and Heather Martin for bring the kids, and Kelsey Solum, Cardy Lewison, Deb Tom Stilin II, Joan Redig for helping out! Except for the sweet potatoes, the garden is planted! Now to keep it watered during our warm week!"8)

Saturday May 11th, the Cub Scouts helped along with volunteers plant trees at the garden!  Karla Kinstler was there to offer her expertise and help.  Mayer Connie Edwards was helping the kids with garden planting.  Thank you to everyone who helped out.  We have garden markers going up to number each bed. This will help people log which beds have been watered, weeded, or havested:)