Sunshine Garden

Fantastic community garden with friendly gardeners, purple martin birdhouses and chicken coop to boot!

You can drop your compost off here! Follow the driveway around to the SE corner and toss it in! Yay!!!

I love this garden. I dream about having a plot here someday when I live in Austin for more than a few months. The depth of knowledge and experience within the place is ridiculous. At any given day, you can find someone on site who has been growing vegetables for years and probably knows the answer to your question of «how do I stake these tomatoes properly?» or «how do I keep my eggplants from getting cold?»
And of course, how can I not mention the annual Spring Tomato sale? It is truly a miraculous operation. These folks choose and get a local greenhouse to grow thousands of spring transplants from hundreds of varieties of tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and herbs. For a weekend hordes of gardeners descend on the place, their eyes wide with anticipation, trying to snatch up that last favorite cherry tomato transplant before someone else does! For that weekend, this place has the best vegetable plant selection in the entire Hill Country. Do not miss it!
Insider tip: If you volunteer to help unload the transplant crates on the days before the sale, you can get an early pick of veggies. And you get to learn some awesome gardening tips from the experts. Win/​Win!