Putney Community Garden Restricted Plant Policy
2025
The Garden website publishes a Declaration of Inclusion welcoming all prospective gardeners. At the same time the Garden is constrained to present this declaration of exclusion cautioning against certain plants. Why? Few gardeners retain their plots indefinitely – the plots are not an indefinite leasehold, they turn over. Consequently the Garden is dedicated to annual vegetables and flowering plants.
Perennial plants pose a management challenge to the Garden, more specifically to the Stewards who are left to rehabilitate plots for the next prospective gardener. To minimize stress on the management of the Garden our Annual Agreement asks that gardeners not plant:
Comfrey – very hard to dig out completely
Any of the mints – too rampant
Raspberries – hard to root out
Woody shrubs of any kind
Bulbs (except garlic)
Perennials – such as tansy, goldenrod, milkweed
Asparagus – a forever plant