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VegOut! This month

For four Saturdays in March, Westbury Community Garden will join The Health Museum and Recipe For Success in a program for National Nutrition Month. We extend a special invitation to students, parents, teachers and staff at Parker Elementary School. Where:  Westbury Community Garden pavilion 12581 Dunlap St. Houston, TX 77035 You can RSVP for the […]

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VegOut! Westbury

Take the 30 Ways in 30 Days Challenge! March is National Nutrition Month. Please join Westbury Community Garden in taking the VegOut! 30 Days in 30 Ways Challenge. We all need more veggies in our lives! Sign up online at vegoutwithrfs.org or get the free phone app from Recipe For Success. There is also a […]

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Starting the Spring Garden

Thinking about your spring garden? Here is a check list. Winter plants removed. Weeds removed. Soil loosened to aerate it.  Don’t plant into hard compacted soil. Microlife fertilizer worked in.  Maybe a bag of composted manure will help. Soil raked smooth and well watered. Garden plan drawn on paper. Markers for seed rows and plants. […]

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Using the Gas Powered Tools:  Get Exercise!

We encourage garden members to learn to use the gas powered tools to do common maintenance jobs around the garden.  We have a Stihl Trimmer and a Stihl Edger.  The trimmer is used often in trimming around fruit trees, sheds, and along the butterfly garden as well as any other place a mower can’t reach.  The […]

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Winter Harvest

Lookie, Lookie!  Check out the fall and winter bounty at Westbury Community Garden. Kat Elder harvested turnips, onions, Mizuna mustard, Cressida cress, bok choy, lettuces, Tuscan and Red Russian kales, Bright Lights chard, cilantro, eggplant, radishes, snap peas, black beans, thyme and  dill with beautiful Zinnias and Rudbeckia for the table. There are a few garden […]

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