Southside Place Community Garden

Join us for another free picnic in the garden with live music! This is a BYOB, picnic or chow down of Foreign Policy food truck donut burgers, Mexican pita, or Greek salad. Some chairs will be, available but we encourage you to bring baseball chairs or blankets. Rain out date is the following Sunday, April 2.

Not sure what to bring for your picnic? Don’t worry about it and buy dinner from the food truck:

Don’t forget: It’s BYOB and parking is tight. Walking is encouraged. Well-behaved dogs are welcome.

Sunday April 30 4:30-7:30pm in the garden 6309 Edloe

On Saturday Nov. 6, 2021 9am – 3pm our friends at the Herb Society of American, South Texas Unit, is hosting the Herb Fair.

See:
www.herbsociety-stu.org
www.facebook.com/HerbSociety.SouthTexasUnit/

We mean the music, not the invasive grass! Join us for a picnic in the garden Sunday November 7 2021 3-5pm. BYO chairs and concessions. It’s a free and socially distanced, outdoor event.

After February’s hard freeze, the garden has sprung back to life. Check out these wildflowers in the back near the compost bins.

Here’s the new Spring 2021 planting layout

Thanks to the generous donations of many neighbors, members, and the City of Southside Place, the new raised bed construction is complete! The rotting cedar boxes were replaced with split-face block topped with custom-made cast stone caps. Designed by architect and garden Board member, Joe Przybyl, and installed by Ramm Construction, owned by Southside Place resident and garden member, Adam Gonzalez.

Come visit the garden and admire our new raised beds!! Plenty of room for socially distanced socializing, eating, cartwheels and hula hooping. Work days first and third Saturday of each month at 2pm.

Yesterday, we witnessed this adorable couple get engaged! Their first date was a Tiny Boxwoods and he chose to propose in the Southside Place Community Garden on a beautiful winter day. He got down on bended knee in front of the curved flower bed.

Dear Friends of the Southside Place Community Garden,

The wooden vegetable beds that were built by volunteers at the inception of the garden in 2013 have come to the end of their useful life and, after consideration of design alternatives and costs, the garden Board has decided to replace them with more permanent concrete splitface blocks. The new beds will be located in the same place, will be the same size as the existing ones and will provide stable seating at the bed edge. We are hoping to have the funds required to start the project in November. The City has agreed to partner with us in this endeavor and we hope you will too!

Support at any level is welcome:

• Dirt Angel: $50.00 will help fill up our beds
• Seed Champion: $100 will provide seeds for a year
• Garden Magician: Contributions from $100 -$3000 will enable the garden to continue to be a magical place.
• Also available are Naming Rights for the
  beds.

The success of the Community Garden depends on the generous support of its volunteers and family sponsors. You can contribute by:

check made payable to Southside Place Community Garden c/o Sally Lukats 3772 Jardin, Houston, Tx 77005

Venmo to @SSPCG-Houston. The Community Garden is a 501 (C)(3) organization.

If you have any questions about the Community Garden or sponsorship opportunities, please contact:

• Alexa Burrow (alexab@greenwoodking.com)
• Claire Baker (clairebaker5@gmail.com)
• Sally Lukats (slukats@gmail.com)