Giving up my plot.

I’ve made the decision to give up my community plot for the coming gardening season.  I contemplated it last year, but I didn’t want to give up…I felt that I learned something from the first season in the community garden, and I really liked the idea of being part of a community garden.  I wanted to meet other gardeners and learn some more about organic gardening.

I ended up visiting the plot this past somer more infrequently than I did the first year I gardened there.  That might be in part due to the rainy season we had…the year before it was necessary to go and water a lot more often.  This year, ironically the year we installed rain barrels for conserving water, I had to visit the garden for the purpose of watering only in the spring.

I’ve done what I set out to do…I’ve made some new gardening friends and I continue to learn more each year about gardening organically.  I’m part of Canadian Organic Growers, and I participate on the Steering Committee now for Durham Organic Gardeners (our local COG chapter).  The community plot is just too much work for a gardener who also has a large back yard garden.  I’d much rather allow other gardeners who have no space of their own to use the plot to grow food and learn the kinds of things I’ve learned over the past two years.

I technically have use of my plot until the end of the calendar year, but I’ll be finishing up sometime in October, since I won’t be doing any cool weather crops over there.  It’s been a great experience, and I hope others who use the plot love it as much as I have.