Sunflower Maze 2022 Underway
The Magical Sunflower Maze At Westbury Community Garden faced several challenges in its inaugural year. For the 2022 season, the Sunflower Committee is getting an early start to address soil fertility, irrigation, and weed issues that hampered the project last summer. We hope to have a bumper crop of sunflowers in the maze with fewer […]
Urban Harvest Annual Harvest Celebration
On November 13, WCG hosted Urban Harvest’s Annual Harvest Celebration. The luncheon and award ceremony celebrates all community gardens in the Urban Harvest network and awards gardeners from across the city for extraordinary community garden contributions. The Harvest Celebration featured box lunches from Local Foods, herbs, vegetable seedlings, and seed give-aways, garden tours, and door-prizes […]
Girl Scouts Earn Gardening Badges
A troop of Daisy (K – 1) and Junior Girl Scouts (grades 4-5) visited WCG on November 6 for an afternoon of outdoor learning that fulfilled Gardening badge requirements for both troops. The girls walked about the garden identifying plants by sight and smell, learned about composting, completed a weeding and mulching service project, and […]
Honeybees On Display at Willow Waterhole MusicFest
The Westbury Community Garden was fortunate to again have booth space at the Willow Waterhole MusicFest on October 30. This one-day event was the first in two years due to COVID-19 cancellations. The gorgeous weather, awesome music, and outstanding food trucks made for an super-fun, family event. WCG’s booth featured our new Apiary. Beekeeper, Steve […]
Fall Seed Collections Are Here!
WCG members and friends and neighbors of the garden are invited to reserve the 2021 Fall Seed Collection by sending an email to seeds@westburycommunitygarden.org. The fall packet contains 29 varieties for just $15 (Member discounted price $12.) There are 2 specialty vegetables available in limited quantity. Beet, Touchstone Gold $1.00Kolrhabi, Terek $1.50 Additionally, there are […]
Update: The Magical Sunflower Maze Debuts In September
UPDATE: The Magical Sunflower Maze at Westbury Community Garden is closed for the season. Mother Nature brought an abrupt end to the project when Tropical Storm Nicholas flattened the sunflower field. September 18 and 25 Bouquet Days are also canceled. WCG is already planning improvements for the sunflower field and will bring the maze back […]
Make A Sunflower Maze Reservation
UPDATE: The Magical Sunflower Maze at Westbury Community Garden is closed for the season. Mother Nature brought an abrupt end to the project when Tropical Storm Nicholas flattened the sunflower field. September 18 and 25 Bouquet Days are also canceled. WCG is already planning improvements for the sunflower field and will bring the maze back […]
The Secret Life of Purple Martins
The Purple Martin Conservation Association’s Pennsylvania webcam gives our WCG Purple Martin Landlord Team and our gardeners a window into what happens in our four WCG Purple Martin (PM) houses as well. These amazing, native, migrating American birds that we provide for in a small way, reward us with spring to late summer songs. We […]
Ditch the Bug Zappers, Try This Instead
We gardeners are all plagued to a varying extent by blood sucking, disease-spreading, itchy Mosquitoes in the Houston area. Currently they’re not especially annoying at WCG until dusk. But this will likely change with heavy rains & absent lovely summer breezes. I’ve read that rubbing native American Beautyberry leaves on your skin is a natural […]
Starting the Apiary
Friday evening, April 16, 2021, Therese Ramirez, who is the head of the Houston Natural Beekeepers Association, gave me a call, letting me know that there was a swarm available, if I wanted to go with her and get it. Long story, short, Therese and I recovered a swarm, from the underside of a trampoline […]