Washington County Community Garden

Washington County Community Garden The Washington County Community Garden is a community-based program. Scroll down for additional information.

Message this page or email [email protected] for more info. The Washington County Community Garden site is located at the corner of Water and Indiana Streets, West Bend, WI., behind the new Gehl Company Corporate Headquarters, and one block south of the intersection of Hwy 33 (Washington Street) and Indiana Avenue. The gardens were begun in 2007 as a project of the Ozaukee County Master

Gardeners. Individuals at the Washington County Community Garden rent 15X20 plots for $25.00 for the gardening season. In addition to paid plots, there are three plots which are tended by non-profit organizations. Though we are not an "organic" site per se, we are as close as we can get given the varied backgrounds of our gardeners. Frequent emails with educational information and growing tips are sent to the gardeners on a regular basis. If you would like to have your name placed on our waiting list, or have questions about our program, please email us at: [email protected]

The advantage of allowing lettuce to go to seed is that you have lettuce for salads before this year’s seeds have germin...
05/25/2026

The advantage of allowing lettuce to go to seed is that you have lettuce for salads before this year’s seeds have germinated! When the plants come up, I just transplant them to where they need to be. One of our plots at the WCCG has crops sown solely for donation to various agencies around town. This weekend, the tomatoes, beans, onions, bush cukes, cabbages and kohlrabi went in. Gardener Dick keeps our raised bed next to the Little Free Library looking great. We have also installed some signage on the water tanks out of an abundance of caution given the heavy traffic in our area. Enjoy the day, we hope that some soul-restoring gardening is on your agenda.

Our community connections are tremendously important to the success of the Washington County Community Garden. Over the ...
05/06/2026

Our community connections are tremendously important to the success of the Washington County Community Garden. Over the past month, our bark chip area has been made more secure with the installation of a better fence courtesy of the WCCG gardener work crews. Then, today, West Bend Parks, Recreation & Forestry department dropped off two loads of bark chips which we use for paths in the common areas. Now, if it would only get warm enough to garden,,,😳🥶

We know that we are REALLY open for business when Scara Crow takes up residence! Every year, Mary Steiner dresses Scara ...
04/26/2026

We know that we are REALLY open for business when Scara Crow takes up residence! Every year, Mary Steiner dresses Scara to the nines complete with dress, jewelry, wig and hat. She is so coy, peeking out at the gardeners!

This week, gardeners have done some planting. Harvest Guard makes a great cover for seeds like beets and carrots as it keeps the critters out and the moisture in. The asparagus is just showing up and the rhubarb is ready to harvest.

The tanks are filled, the benches are in place for a rest, the bees are in their new home and we are open for the 2026 g...
04/19/2026

The tanks are filled, the benches are in place for a rest, the bees are in their new home and we are open for the 2026 gardening season! Yesterday‘s work day was filled with meeting returning gardeners and welcoming nine new ones. We pulled w**ds, spread bark chips, set up the Little Free Library, and installed fencing. Then, Beekeeper Cheryl and I drove to Heritage Honey Bees in Sullivan and brought the girls back to the WCCG. Each 2 pound box held about 8,000 bees and their queen. We removed the tin of sugar syrup, took out the queen and removed the cork keeping her in the little cage. Then, we smushed a marshmallow in, and hung her cage between two frames. Over the next couple of days the bees will eat the marshmallow away, the queen will be released, and she will begin laying eggs. We put slabs of fondant and pollen on top of the frames for food until they go out and forage on site.

Stay tuned for further adventures in gardening and beekeeping as the season unfolds.

Also, if you have access to the National Geographic channel, I highly, highly recommend ”Secrets of Bees” a 2026 documentary. There are two episodes and it is beyond fabulous!

04/07/2026

Some plots just opened up. If you are interested in gardening with us, please message me or send an email to [email protected], including your email and phone information.

“Opening Day” isn’t just for baseball! We open on April 18, weather permitting seeing as how we don’t have a retractible...
03/29/2026

“Opening Day” isn’t just for baseball! We open on April 18, weather permitting seeing as how we don’t have a retractible roof over head. Dug some parsnips, the first crop of season today. YUM!

All is calm, all is tucked under a blanket of snow. Seed catalogs arrive soon! We gardeners of the WCCG use the “off sea...
12/13/2025

All is calm, all is tucked under a blanket of snow. Seed catalogs arrive soon! We gardeners of the WCCG use the “off season” to plan the best gardens ever! Watch this page for announcements. Stay warm!

Bittersweet day, looking back on 2025 when the gardeners powered through despite dry spells, heat waves, and the most in...
10/26/2025

Bittersweet day, looking back on 2025 when the gardeners powered through despite dry spells, heat waves, and the most invasive w**d season. Ever. We fed ourselves, friends, and neighbors, and donated food to people and animals! Our major donations went to the Senior Center of Washington County, Family Promise of Washington County, and Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary which accepted donations which were past best date for humans.

We harvested over 8,000 pounds of food this year, with a market value of around $22,250.00. This is AMAZING. Also amazing is the value of our labor working on site maintenance, tank filling and dump runs, worth about $10,500 on the market. This little acre, a project of the Ozaukee Master Gardeners, has a huge impact on the economic, physical, and psychological health of the community at large and its participants.

The bees are about to be tucked in as beekeeper Cheryl Boyer has begun feeding sugar water which will be replaced with sugar patties when the time comes. The hive will also be wrapped with insulation. The gardeners showed up on our final work day and cleaned and organized the tool closet and shed, wrapped the Little Free Library for the season and —yet again–pulled bindw**d. The “water boys” are cleaning the tanks as I write.

My garlic is planted, the leeks have been dug. It‘s time to clean off my work shoes. See you in 2026.

…yet another rabbit hole. Or, more accurately, groundhog hole as the critters have decided that the Washington County Co...
10/16/2025

…yet another rabbit hole. Or, more accurately, groundhog hole as the critters have decided that the Washington County Community Garden is worthy of a subdivision.

Initial foray into the shed was followed by an attempted full scale occupation of one section of a gardener’s plot. Disavowed them of occupancy of both by tossing rocks and Irish Spring soap down the hole followed by more rocks. The folks over at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History put out some great info here: https://carnegiemnh.org/groundhog-architecture/

Really interesting facts about how big their underground burrows are and how they go about “excavating”. I always thought they just chucked stuff out with their back feet. Nope, not at all. Read up to see how it is done.

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Corner, Water And Indiana Streets
West Bend, WI
53095

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