The Westbury Community Garden is one of the largest, most successful community gardens in Houston.
The garden has received recognition at both local and national levels. Guided by its slogan, ‘Growing Community through Gardening,’ it truly lives up to that mission. We’ve created a welcoming space where residents from nearby single-family homes and multi-family housing come together to garden and build community.
Our gardeners are as diverse as the produce they grow and they come from all over southwest Houston. People from different backgrounds, cultures, and circumstances come together as gardeners.
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05/23/2026
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Cover Crops for High Summer
Continue Reading…: Cover Crops for High SummerSweet potatoes are a wonderful and delicious cover crop, just the thing to plant when you don’t want to go out in the heat of summer and take care of the garden. Here at WCG, we are forced to take a pause on sweet potatoes this year, due to an outbreak of sweet potato weevils. …
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Documentary Screening: The Extraordinary Caterpillar
Continue Reading…: Documentary Screening: The Extraordinary CaterpillarWestbury Community Garden and the Native Plant Society of Texas – Houston Chapter will jointly host a screening of The Extraordinary Caterpillar by Jeff McKay. The film features Sam Jaffe and The Caterpillar Lab, Doug Tallamy, entomologist, author and founder of the Homegrown National Park Movement, and Dr. David Wagner, renowned entomologist from University of…
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An Old Favorite: Contender Bush Bean
Continue Reading…: An Old Favorite: Contender Bush BeanLike many gardeners, I love to look at seed catalogs, and the new and colorful varieties usually catch my eye. But there’s one favorite that I keep on using: the Contender Bush Bean. Developed in 1949 at the U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, the Contender bush bean had also been called the “Bluff Valentine.” The result was…