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Our mission is to educate our members about organic gardening and to provide opportunities to them so that they can grow and harvest vegetables, herbs and flowers within a welcoming community setting.
Garden plots are open to all residents of Andover and surrounding towns who join our Association. Plots that are turning over are offered yearly to people on the waiting list on a first come, first serve basis.
Each Association member contributes an annual plot fee to cover maintenance. To be part of our association, you must be willing to agree to our requirements. These are fairly standard rules for community gardens, with requirements such as gardening organically and participating in workdays and cleanups; and we do try to help new folks with this request by giving lessons/ideas for how to garden organically. Once rented, you plant up your plot, harvest and maintain your own plot for your own family’s use during the gardening season.
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While it’s thoughtful to want to tend others' plots that may look forgotten, please always speak directly with a gardener before tending their plot, watering, or picking any produce. We all work very hard to create garden plans and schedules that work with our life commitments, and it’s certainly disappointing to put so much effort in and then not get to enjoy what you grew. Please continue to support one another’s efforts, but also please remember that even produce that gets left too long on the vine will still be beneficial to us all via the compost it enriches!
Pest season is upon us! Please be diligent in checking your garden for pests over the next two months. And just as important, please remember we are an organic garden. Removal by hand is always our first recommendation, especially for invasive species like Japanese beetles, which have no natural predators. This means that if you don’t remove them from your garden, they will continue to eat all of our plants. They seem to be particularly fond of sunflowers, beans, and chard at the moment, so check those extra carefully. If you see Japanese beetles, squash bugs, or tomato hornworms, among other pests, anywhere in the garden, please do yourself and your neighbors a favor and squash them (or drown them in soapy water in a cup/jar)
Please keep all walkways between plots free of roaming plant runners, stakes and supports, mulch, and any in-plot irrigation. This ensures nothing is damaged when we mow and tend to the grass, but also ensures each other's safety. Uneven and hard-to-navigate areas can create a fall hazard.
Happy growing,
Lisette & the ACGA board
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High Plain Road Garden
The main garden is located on the Virginia Hammond Reservation, on High Plain Road across from the leaf composting site. The site has 65 plots:
4 feet x 10 feet plot: $34
4 feet x 20 feet plot: $68
5 feet x 10 feet plot: $42.50
5 feet x 25 feet plot: $106.25
There is a small parking lot with some allowance for parking on the grass when it is full. It usually accommodates most cars at a given time and the grass parking can be used on workdays.
Main Street Garden
Nestled behind the Andover Center for History and Culture at 97 Main Street, this smaller garden has 11 plots of two different sizes:
5 feet x 20 feet plot: $85
5 feet x 10 feet plot: $42.50
In downtown Andover the parking is tight. There are a few spaces located adjacent to the Andover Center for History and Culture and on the street in front of it. Paid parking is available in the town lot just up from the site, beside UBurger.
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