Each gardener is
responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of their garden plot. One plot is consists of two 20' x 2' rows, care for your plot extends to the low space between the two rows and to the middle of the low spaces of either side of the rows. Specifically maintenance means keeping your garden weed free between plants and rows and 5 feet in front of your garden by maintaining proper amounts of mulch coverage over these areas. Mulch should be at least one inch deep and newspaper should not show from under it. If you choose to put newspaper down under your mulch the paper needs to stay hidden under the mulch and not fly around creating litter. If the paper is showing you do not have enough mulch on your plot. Maintenance also includes proper harvesting of plants meaning that you should remove vegetables from the main plant once they have reached proper maturity. If left on the plant for too long vegitables can rot and attract bug that are not beneficial to the garden along with disease which can spread to other gardeners vegetables. If you do not know when you should harvest your vegetables or are unsure how to properly harvest your vegetables, ask! All gardeners are responsible for the area around the garden. Everyone needs to take turns edging and mowing around the garden. There is a mower and an edger inside the cabin along with the rest of the tools. If the area around the garden is not staying clean or it becomes apparent that not everyone is pitching in the Garden Coordinator has the right to create a schedule giving each gardener a week in which it is their job to mow or edge.
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