The Volunteer Garden

09/10/2024

For those of you looking for a fall plant sale, you might wanna drive to Midland. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/RUJJrWoBbU7ekP6D/?mibextid=K35XfP

09/07/2024

The garden is ready to prepare for next spring. We will have a pumpkin collection area after Halloween and Thanksgiving for you to drop off your used pumpkins. In November we will have a seed/plant/cutting swap.
Watch for more posts coming soon.

04/07/2024

Hello Everyone. I haven’t posted things this season so far because the garden is going to be left fallow for a season. I am having a total knee replacement in May and will be out of commission for several weeks. I appreciate you coming by the page to see what is growing on. I will be available to answer any questions about gardening.

01/01/2024

It is New Year’s Eve about 9 PM and Gracie is still not home. We drive around daily for at least four hours looking for her and calling her name and passing out flyers and no one has seen her. The number of hours I spent on my phone daily has tripled since she got out on December 15 and didn’t come home. She is friendly, but she might be timid. She is 10 years old so she might not be moving very fast. She usually knows her way home so every day when we’ve been out and get home, I hope to see her on the porch but she’s not here. And it brings tears to my eyes to not know where she is and if she’s OK. There is a $500 reward for her return of questions asked. Please share and help bring Gracie home. She was last seen at 37th and Louisville Avenue and if you’d like to return her there it’s the house with the turquoise shutters. You can put her in the backyard if we’re not home. You can call at 210-309-7199 or text. I will drive wherever I need to to get her if necessary I will not stop looking and everyone in the neighborhood will know that because they will hear me calling her name. Her pups miss her too, and they understand I think what we’re doing when we go out to look for her, because they go with us. She is a medium size dog weighing 45 pounds so she’s about half the size of a regular German Shepherd.

11/22/2023

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! When the turkey and dressing is gone and the pumpkin pie is no longer looking like breakfast of Champions, and you are ready to have the pumpkins, gourds, straw gone, bring them by The Volunteer Garden, we would love to have them.

LUBBOCK, Texas – When your decorative pumpkin display starts to decay, it’s easy to want to toss it in the trash. It turns out that many people do just that. According to the U.S. Department …

11/02/2023

We are ready for all the Jacko lanterns you can bring so we can get them composted! Look for the sign by the curb on the west end of the garden. 3702 37th street

10/15/2023

It is almost that time of year. Bring your jack-o-lanterns, pumpkings, gourds, squash, etc when you are finished with them this fall, including the meat and seeds from carving and drop them off at The Volunteer Garden in Lubbock Texas.

09/14/2023

Post by Marissa Melakian:
The story of our first home grown luffa!
From seed to harvest…

This is now my most proudest thing to have ever grown. 😂 Brian is so confused why I grew bath sponges. All I could say was “because I can” and “why not?” They are kinda fun!

Plus a couple of bonus videos of Cindy Talbot peeling a couple luffa (or loofah?)at The Volunteer Garden. I think both spellings are correct.

07/25/2023

Cantaloupe $3-4 each, jalapeños 10/$1,eggplant $1 each, shish*to peppers 10/$1 and yellow pear tomatoes $4 lb

07/13/2023

Rita and I canned Plum jam last week. We have jars ready for sale. Half pints are $7 and all my pints have sold so get some delicious jam made from locally grown plums I harvested myself. It will remind you of your childhood.

07/11/2023

We are now taking orders for okra ($4 lb or basket), Blackeyed Peas ($15 overstuffed freezer quart freezer bag), Tomatoes- Bigger red and yellow, cherry and yellow pear ($4 lb or a basket), Eggplant ($1 each), Pickled Okra ($7 a pint jar) and Plum Jelly ($4 small jelly jar, $7 regular jelly jar and $10 a pint jar- limited supply). Pick up by appt. Delivery for $5

06/25/2023

Yum! It was fabulously flavorful, sweet and less acidic.

06/25/2023

The first ripe tomato of the year! (That isn’t a yellow pear) This is a Gold Medal variety that is new to The Volunteer Garden this year. It is about to be part of a bacon sandwich.

06/22/2023

https://www.facebook.com/cinders.talbot/videos/194223306940155/?mibextid=r8mrGG

06/13/2023

Baby shish*to pepper

06/13/2023

The first cucumbers of the season. Yes, one is supposed to be white, and yes, the other two are supposed to be that small. I will let you know how they taste, I can’t wait.

05/25/2023

Late afternoon garden tour

https://www.facebook.com/cinders.talbot/videos/200255939113272/?mibextid=r5uJeJ

05/06/2023

Come by The Volunteer Garden for lemonade, homemade cookies and fruit cups. Our young volunteers are hoping to sellout today!

04/29/2023

The Volunteer Garden is getting a new compost bin system! Many Thanks to our building master volunteers! It is super exciting !

04/08/2023

These American plums are blooming for the first time since we planted them 3 years ago

03/26/2023

We have had over 25 people show interest in being a volunteer in the garden. We had one volunteer show up yesterday at 1. We have so much to do in the garden and Cindy will be here today, Sunday March 26 from 3 to dusk. Please come help get beds ready and transplant plants to bigger pots. Next weekend there is a workshop on Saturday at 8 am, and we will be out working all day with weather permitting.

03/12/2023

Our seedlings are growing and needing to be transplanted if you want to come play in the dirt Sunday afternoon.