SDF Community Garden Start of Season Info and Resources - Sept 2025

[St Davids Foundation Community Garden Admin Account]

Hi St David's Foundation Community Gardeners: 

We now have all the plots renewed and assigned for our 2025-2026 Garden Season. We have 15 plots with new gardeners so welcome to everyone who is new to the garden! I've posted some of this info on Discord but wanted to share here in case you haven't joined yet and so you can have it in one place. 

Garden Calendar: Meetings and Workdays

Our calendar has been updated on the website and is available on Google Calendar and Luma (new this year). You can subscribe via iCal here and there's a Google doc of the key dates maintained in this doc. 

• IMPORTANT: First Garden Meeting: Sat Sept 27 @ 10AM at the Garden Pavilion. We'll formally elect our workgroup leaders and will have seeds for our seed swap available at the meeting.  

Required Work Hours

All gardeners are required to complete 2 hours of work (in addition to maintaining your plot) each month. Log your work hours in the Work Hours worksheet. Every 3 months you are allowed to pay a $10 fee in place of completing your hours. 

• Video Walkthrough of Garden and Work Tasks: I recorded this 15 min video today to walk gardeners through some suggested tasks and maintenance you can complete at the garden. 

Seed Swap and Compost

The garden has invested in purchasing seeds and compost for the fall planting season. Contact Katie if you'd like to get seeds before the garden meeting and couldn't make it to the garden this morning. Here is the doc summarizing what seeds we have purchased. Compost is available at the garden. Limit use to 2-3 wheelbarrows until we have confirmed that everyone has had a chance to get some. 

Welcome and Help for New Gardeners
If you are a returning gardener, please help our new gardeners get settled. Many of the plots they are working in have been overgrown and need a lot of weeding. New Gardeners: Now is an important time to get a strong start. Ask questions and get out to the garden for a strong planting season. There are many resources shared on the News and Updates page on the Garden website. The Texas A&M Planting Guide is a great cheat sheet for what to plant. 

• Discord is our main forum for gardeners to get questions answered. Please post here before emailing the garden admin email address. 

Everyone on this list has made a commitment to be a community gardener. This takes time and effort. The fall planting season can be the most rewarding time to garden in central Texas. We have a great community, please show how much you value it with the work you put into your plot and the Garden. 

Thanks, Corey 

St. David's Foundation Community Garden at MLK Park 🌱

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