LET'S GET GROWING!

WANT TO SAVE THE PLANET? START AT HOME!

The Grow Grow Out is a citizen-conservation project that enlists volunteers to grow plants at their home or as part of a scout group or garden club activity. Volunteer-grown plants are donated to KPC or local schools for prairie restoration efforts. Volunteers are highly encouraged to also keep some plants for their own use - hey, it's part of the fun!

KPC provides volunteers with the seeds and know how (see handbook and videos below) and you provide the water, soil, pots, and time.

REQUESTING SEEDS

If you'd like to be a part of this year's Great Grow Out please contact Jaime González at jgonzalez@katyprairie.org and request seeds. Each seed packet has sufficient seeds for 18, 4"X4" pots.

List of currently available seeds:

• Blazingstar (Liatris spp.)
• Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella)
  
• Rough Coneflower (Rudbeckia grandiflora)
• Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
• Texas Coneflower (Rudbeckia texana)
• Yellow Indiangrass (Sorgastrum nutans)

SPECIES INFORMATION CARDS

Click on one of the species cards below for more detailed information about how each species benefits people and wildlife!

Texas Coneflower Card	Indian Blanket Card	Indiangrass Card	Rattlesnake Master Card

LEARN TO GROW PLANTS

Don't have a green thumb but want to try growing natives? Take a look through our handbook below or watch the videos just below the handbook to get started!

Coastal Prairie Plant Growers Handbook - 2nd Edition - December 2010

To view a larger version of this handbook, first select fullscreen on this page. Once the full-screen page has loaded, go to the lower left-hand corner of the screen for view mode and select book.

Or check out these videos:

Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Introduction		Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Seed Collecting with Flo Hannah
Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Seeding		Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Seed Storage
Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Division (Separation)		Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Bumping Up
Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Planting		Coastal Prairie Plant Growers' Handbook - Seed Balls

 

PARTICIPATE IN A SEED COLLECTING TRIP

We'll be hosting numerous seed collecting trips in the early summer and fall. In December will typically host two seed packing pizza parties.

2010 GREAT GROW OUT REVIEW

2010 was a Great year for our grow out efforts. Nearly 3,000 plants were grown out by over 200 volunteers. Many of these plants were planted on October 23, 2010 as part of our first annual Wildflower Seed Stomp held at the new Matt Cook Wildlife Viewing Platform.