Important Dates for 2024

• Membership Renewal and new applications for membership open Feb. 15.
• Membership Renewal deadline to keep your bed or place in the Garden Collective from last year: Feb. 22. Returning members will pay the $40 membership fee or request scholarship assistance and submit membership agreements by Feb. 22 in order to maintain use of the same bed from the previous year. If membership has not been renewed by Feb. 22, availability of a planting bed and use of the same bed is not guaranteed. Beds will be reassigned beginning Friday, Feb. 28.
• Spring Gathering, a required meeting for all new members, and encouraged for all members, held Saturday, March 15, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the garden, weather permitting. Rain location: the new Germantown Weavers Way office space, 326B W Chelten Avenue.
• Our annual plant fair is scheduled for Saturday, May 12. The Plant Fair requires a lot of volunteer labor, both on the day of the event and during the weeks leading up to it.
• Planting bed holders need to have their beds cultivated by May 31 or they forfeit the use of their planting bed to someone on the wait list.
• The garden season ends on Nov 1. To minimize the spread of fungus and other diseases throughout the garden, planting bed holders must clear their beds of all summer growth before this date. Any who want to use a cover crop or who have overwintering crops in their bed may seek permission of the membership chair to extend their growing season beyond Nov. 1. Other crops left in planting beds beyond November 1 are donated to City Harvest.