Bountiful Spring Harvest This Saturday, April, 13th, from 9-11 am is our next Garden Workday. We will enjoy lovely spring weather, harvest produce, swap seeds, transplants, and give out the secrets to a great gardening season! Wear your Grow and Share Garden T-Shirt with pride! Buy extra T Shirts for only $10.00 each…FREE Worm with every purchase. (Dig your own) FREE WORMS ..read more

Thanks to Kimberly Hall for completing our new signs for the community plots! We also have a new “flag” system. On Garden Workdays, (and only on Garden Workdays) we will harvest any ripe produce from any plot…UNLESS you mark your plot with a RED flag. Green Flags or No flag means it’s okay to donate your harvest to food pantries. The other 29ish days of the month…you harvest and donate as you see fit. I created flag holders and a sign explaining everything. Green means okay to donate during workdays only…Red means don’t harvest! Remember this ONLY APPLIES ON A GARDEN WORKDAY…do not harvest fr ..read more

Welcome to spring! It’s garden season, everyone! It’s a beautiful day in the garden! We focused on some major cleanup activities—weeds to pull, compost to turn and sort, and crops to harvest! We also relocated the tires for our climbing vines and did lots of general maintenance. The garden looks spiffy! Turnips as big as your head! Though the last average frost date is next week and we still technically could get a freeze, it’s pretty much all systems go for planting right now. Hold off on the major hot-season plants like peppers and tomatoes outdoors (but start them inside of you want!) Other ..read more

Free Seeds…Bring your extra seed packets and transplants to the Seed Swap! Spring is here…and so is our next Garden Workday! Join us this Saturday, March 9th, from 9-11 am. We will work on pathways, compost, harvesting, weeding, and our new “Wattle”. What’s a “Wattle”? Come to the work day to find out! In addition, we will discuss spring planting, best practices, and give away FREE seeds and transplants at our Seed Swap…so bring your extra seed packets, and transplants to share Bring your extra seed packets and transplants to share at the Seed Swap! We still have a few open plots, so remind yo ..read more

A “wattle” is an medieval fence using natural materials to create a fence, animal pen, raised bed, or even a simple structure. It is made by weaving vines, and branches around a series of stakes or poles. We are using it to create a raised bed outside of our fence to grow sweet potatoes, taro, and jimaca. Wattles are created by weaving branches and vines between poles.We will fill this raised bed with twigs (also called Hügelkultur), as well as leaves and compost. This year we may leave the existing blue barrels full of compost for planting. The goal is to completely cover them.Still work to d ..read more

The garden is always—even if it is raining! But we had our workday inside so the gardeners didn’t melt. A very indoor workday We still had a lot to do. We talked about our goals for the garden. Some highlights included: Making the outside of the garden beautiful Keeping the garden organized/tidy around the fences Keeping a community engagement focus Donating abundantly We agreed to set a donation goal of 2,000 lbs. for the year. Help us out by logging all your donations and by harvesting regularly so nothing goes to waste. A rainy garden day We also had a spirited conversation about the meri ..read more

80% chance of rain Saturday morning…but hey…this is Texas, anything could happen! We will still meet for our workday…but if it’s raining we will be inside. We have onions, potatoes, leeks, and seeds to give out. In addition we will discuss how to prepare for spring, and may get done early. See you Saturday at 9:00 rain or shine ..read more

We will be planting potatoes, onions, and getting ready for the spring season at the next Garden Workday. It’s this Saturday, from 9-11. We will meet rain or shine. Remember to wear your Grow and Share Garden T-Shirt! (They make great gifts too…only $10.00 each ..read more

Today is a great day to plant onion sets. The time has come…the time is now…plant your onions, you don’t even have to plow! Onion sets are available at big box stores and nurseries. Now is a great time to plant onion sets. Pull up any badly damaged crops, turn the soil and plant onion sets about an inch deep. You can do a row along the edges about 4 inches apart, or plant up to 16 in a square foot area! Best varieties are 1015Y, Red Bermuda, and White Granex. Plant one inch deep…then water.4 inches apart…or 16 per square foot. There are some extra sets in the shed NOW! First come first serve ..read more

Happy New Year and welcome to the “hunker down” garden workday! Cover your crops! We started outside, with a heavy focus on harvesting whatever we could and covering plants. The hard freeze this week could kill most of our gardens; cover with a frost cloth, a sheet, or even a thick pile of leaves to try to insulate your crops. An impressive harvest, Leila! We collected quite a lot for Metrocrest! We had an abundance of fresh cilantro, mint, turnips, kale, broccoli, and cabbage! Our wagon overflowed! A bee-utiful potluck! Thank you, Lynn! We headed indoors for our potluck and Best Bets. Thank y ..read more