Community Garden

Dear Gardener:
The Lawrence Community Garden is located behind the low-rise apartments, and is surrounded by a high wire fence (that keeps the deer and other woodland pests out.

Garden plots are of many different sizes, for all levels gardeners If you are interested in a garden plot for this summer, please sign up by sending Maja Klosinska, the garden coordinator, an email at mklosins AT princeton DOT edu. Please read the gardening guidelines before signing up.

In the past, many gardeners chose to put a small fence around their individual plot. (See garden tips.) The university will not provide materials for this fencing, so if you are interested in erecting an individual fence, you will need to buy your own materials. The university will till the garden every spring if we want them to. This means we wouldn't have to spend laborious hours pulling weeds before we seed. Perennial plots have been staked off at the edge of the garden close to building 14, so they will not be disturbed by tilling. However, if we put elaborate individual fences around all the plots, the University can not plow properly.

Previous Garden Co-ordinators, Rod and Tisa, have put together a comprehensive list of garden tips to help first-time gardeners to the area. Please visit the gardening tips page to review.

There is a composter for use in the garden. The composter is in the garden area. It is the black cylindrical container just left of the main garden entrance. Please add your kitchen scraps to the composter according to the composter rules. See you soon!

2009 Garden:

SIGNUP INFORMATION

You may sign up for a garden plot by sending an e-mail to Maja Klosinska (mklosins AT princeton DOT edu) asking for a garden plot. This year, there will be a $10 one-time fee for each plot. The money will go straight into gardening supplies. (This charge is designed to encourage you to take proper care of the gardening tools, and to discourage people from claiming plots without good intentions of using them.
You will be added to the Lawrence Garden e-mail list to share info and news.
The choosing of garden plots will be done after the garden is open. Those gardeners who attend the opening work day will be given first priority of choosing a plot. Those gardeners who cannot attend the work day can choose a plot by e-mailing Maja with a location preference, or by signing up on the garden map that will be posted after the workday.
It gets HOT, HUMID, AND BUGGY here in late summer, so don't take on a bigger garden than you can handle.