Events

Don’t miss out on this year’s Crepe Myrtle and Shade Tree sale with Keep Brazos Beautiful! Buy 5 Trees @ $18 each and get 1 FREE! Download an order form from this site, fill out and mail order form along with payment to the Keep Brazos Beautiful office by October 31, 2008.  Orders and payment MUST be received by October 31st for guaranteed tree selection and delivery.

Form: KBB Tree Sale

There’s a lot more going on than I initially posted about. Apparently this is the week for Fall Gardens! I’ll just cut and paste from the emails I recieved this morning:

From: Sharon Banister, Res. Asst.

Greenhouse Manager
TX A&M University-Horticulture Dept.
s-banister@tamu.edu
(979)845-8553

The Floriculture Greenhouse at Texas A&M University will be holding its semi-annual Plant Sale. The sale will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, October 1st and 2nd from 9:00 am to 2:00 and October 3rd from 9 to 12 noon. For sale will be Begonias, Coleus, Cacti, Euphorbias, Bromeliads, African Violets and lots of other great plants. Hopefully we will have the pleasure of seeing you this year at our Plant Sale! The cross streets are Lamar and Nagle in the center of campus. You can look at aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu and there is a locator section that will show the location of the Floriculture Greenhouse at Texas A&M. There are two parking garages in very close proximity to the greenhouse. If you have any questions you can contact Sharon Banister at (979) 845-8553.

From: Joe Novak

Our fourth newsletter will appear on the Holistic Teaching Garden internet site:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/holisticgarden/

The Holistic Teaching Garden’s Fall Garden Seminar is to be held from 9:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4. The seminar will be on Fall Vegetables, Growing Strawberries as an Annual Crop, and Fall-Winter-Spring Bedding Plants. Admission to the seminar has an $8.00 fee. You can register at the door on Saturday morning or can call Louis Castillo to preregister. Louis’ phone number is 979-845-3915. We will open the sales area at 8:00 a.m. so that the people attending the seminar can also purchase some plants before the seminar begins. There will also be plenty of time after the seminar to attend the sale.

The Holistic Teaching Garden’s Fall Bedding Plant and Vegetable Plant Sale is to be held this week.
When: Oct. 2, 3, 4.
Times: Oct. 2 - 9:00 a.m -3:00 p.m.
Oct. 3 - 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Oct. 4 - 8:00 a.m -3:00 p.m.
Where: The sale is in the back of the Horticulture and Forest Science Building (HFSB). The location can be found on this campus map: http://campusmaps.tamu.edu/

PARKING: Parking is always an issue. See note at end of this e-mail.

Please forward this message on to anyone whom you think may be interested and to any e-mail lists of persons who may be interested. Thanks for your help.

SPECIAL NOTE: Please bring boxes, trays or other containers to carry plants. We will provide as many containers as we can, but if you have something that you can bring, it would help us out. If you need to clean out your garage or shed and are looking for a place to donate stacks of old pots or trays that have accumulated, we can always use them at the Holistic Teaching Garden!

FALL VEGETABLE PLANTS: Globe artichoke, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cardoon, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, collards, kale, leeks, lettuce (leaf, Boston, Bibb and Romaine), Swiss chard and more.

HERBS: Basil (different types), cilantro/coriander, chamomile, dill, fennel, marjoram, Mexican mint marigold, mints (several types), oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, and more.

FALL / WINTER / SPRING BEDDING PLANTS: (all are to be planted in the fall; we have more than one cultivar or most, including unusual forms hard to find in nurseries; planting guides will be available)
Alyssum, bells of Ireland, bluebonnets (blue and maroon), calendula, cardoon, carnation, candytuft, chamomile, calliopsis, coreopsis, dianthus, Echinacea (purple cone flower), daisies (shasta daisy, gloriosa daisy or Rudbeckia, swan river daisy, painted daisy or single chrysanthemum), foxy foxglove, Gaillardia, Gazania, globe thistle or Echinops, holly hocks, Linaria or toad flax, Nicotiana or flowering tobacco, ornamental cabbage and ornamental kale, pansy, petunia, dwarf phlox, poppies (California poppy, Ice Land poppy, Shirley poppy), Salvia (blue bedder and tricolor), snapdragons, statice, stocks, strawflowers, sweet williams, violas and more.

INDOOR OR HOUSE PLANTS (will be available on Saturday):
Young, healthy plants in a wide selection which include assorted types of aloe, begonias, bromeliads, cacti, succulents, ferns, tropical foliage and more. Several types of hanging baskets.

LANDSCAPE PLANTS:
(Some new types of landscape shrubs, vines and perennials will be offered, but we will also have a reduced price clearance of landscape plants that have been held over from our last sale.)

NOVELTY ITEMS:
Dish gardens, seedy characters, fern bottle gardens or terraria.

PARKING: Parking on Friday and Saturday is subject to ticketing by the University, but there is visitor parking in the West Campus Parking Garage. (see map) There is some parking for persons who have disabilities in Parking Area 74 and other lots in the vicinity. There are two loading areas behind HFSB, one on the east end and a second on the west end. There is no charge for parking in Parking Area 74 on Saturday. We have plenty of plant material and so if you are coming from off campus and do not have a University parking sticker, you can park without charge and without the risk of ticketing in PA 74 on Saturday.
This interactive campus map shows locations of the Horticulture and Forest Science Building, Parking Area 74, West Campus Garage, driving directions, etc. http://campusmaps.tamu.edu/

These sales are the primary source of funding for the Holistic Teaching Garden. All profit from these sales go to support student workers and buy supplies for the garden. Please check out our www site for new developments and for information about the garden. Also, the Holistic Teaching Garden’s newsletter, The Whole Scoop, is available through this site.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/holisticgarden/

Other sales:
The Holistic Teaching Garden is holding its Holiday Sale which will feature gift plants, amaryllis and other bulbs, herbs and fall - winter - spring garden plants on Nov. 20, 21, 22 (early this year because Thanksgiving is the last week in November and immediately before final exams.
Brazos County Master Gardeners are holding their fall sale Sept. 27 (the day of this e-mail) at the County AgriLife Extension Office on Hwy. 21 in Bryan.

Thank you for supporting the Holistic Teaching Garden.

Joe Novak

A conference on farming, land use, community food security, and local food.

Thursday, September 4, 2008
8:30 - 5:30
Cost: $75

Sustainability begins with adequate, healthy supplies of air, water, and food. Let’s talk about the source and quality of Houston’s food supply.

We have moved a long way from simple issues of survival - or so we think. We aren’t gathering nuts and berries any more, but have we reached a point where our food supply is not necessarily reliable and healthy? Are there economic opportunities for the Houston region in expanding our capacity to produce food right here?

Houston Food Net