General Information

General Registration and Files

Every year we ask that Gardeners complete two forms, the Registration form and the Waiver. The Registration form outlines our fees, and our expectations for participation in the Garden. Those expectations include following the Garden Rules, and participating in a number of our Events. The Waiver acknowledges the risks of participating in our Garden. This all sounds very formal, but it is all towards making sure everything goes as smoothly as possible for all of us.

The corresponding documents are available here:

Communal Beds

There are several communal areas in the garden. The small herb beds contain both perennial and annual herbs. Help yourselves to these whenever you need any but try not to  completely denude the plants for others.

The same applies to apples, cherries, blackcurrants,  nasturtiums, runner beans and anything else planted along the fence. If it is ready and you want it, help yourself.  It goes without saying that no-one should pick huge amounts and freeze them.

The main perennial vegetable bed  currently contains asparagus, rhubarb and jerusalem artichokes aka sunchokes.

• RHUBARB
  Pull up stalks with a quick jerk. Never cut them.  Please leave at least 3 stalks per plant or they  will not continue to grow. Never eat the leaves.  It is OK to put the leaves on the compost.
• ASPARAGUS
  This needs a lot of water so when the rain barrels are full please water the trenches when you see they are dry. It must never be completely picked, Several stalks per plant  must be left  to grow into tall ferns and nourish the plant for the next year.  A really good asparagus bed can take up to 7 years to establish, so it may be  up to  a future committee to announce a full  harvest.  Meanwhile, we will let you know when  it may be lightly picked.
• SUNCHOKES  
  The committee will decide when  they are ready to be dug  up and harvested and  an announcement will be made.

Fruit trees

There are 9 fruit trees along the south fence from west to east as follows;

1. Mount Royal plum
2. Pembina plum
3. Paul’s pear
4. Paul’s pear
5. September Ruby apple
6. September Ruby apple
7. Harcourt apple
8. Harcourt apple
9. Parkland apple

In addition, there is an Evans cherry in the main communal bed.

Reminders

• The whiteboards in the shed are one way to communicate to one another, if a task is done, or if you would like to share specific parts of your harvest with others.
• You may not weed, water, dig, or in anyway disturb another bed unless specifically asked to do  so. Last season some crops were helpfully weeded out because they looked like weeds, and some people had their beds watered much more than they wanted.
• Gardeners who are away may leave a white stick in their beds if they would like others to water for them, or a green stick if something may be harvested.  These  are is the only exceptions to the rule that no-one should do anything to another gardener’s bed.
• Please do not leave containers open in the garden that may collect water which may become breeding sites for mosquitos once the weather warms up