HUNTINGTON — Gardeners who are returning to the Spring Hill Cemetery Garden have Thursday and Friday to sign up for the 2008 garden season.
Gardeners must pay $30 in a check payable to the Spring Hill Garden Association.
Checks should be dropped off at the Spring Hill Cemetery Office, 1427 Norway Ave.
Gardeners will get a 15-foot-by-30-foot garden plot.
Plots will be available as soon as suitable weather allows for plowing and plotting off the lots, and must be maintained through the season, which tentatively ends Oct. 31.
New gardeners wishing to rent a plot at this long-time community garden can do so beginning on Monday, March 31.
And the approximate 80 or so garden plots will be rented out until they are gone.
The Spring Hill Cemetery garden is a 85-plot community garden tucked away in the back corner of the historic cemetery near Enslow Boulevard.
The community garden was started by former Cabell County agricultural extension agent John Lewis, who saw a program that talked about community gardens back in the 1970s at a national meeting.
Tuesday night at a meeting at the Room with a View at Ritter Park Rose Garden, association members elected Arch Keller as the president, Joe Snavely as the secretary and Betty Given as the treasurer.
Officers were elected to a two-year term.
Members also ratified the group's by-laws which consisted of minimal requirements for the upkeep of the gardens.
Some of the rules include that gardens must be planted by May 15, plots must be kept up and if they are not there is a week's notice before someone is removed.
Gardeners must pick up their own trash, must not plant tall plants that shade a neighbor's garden, must not bring pets to the garden, must not use pesticides, or weed repellents that impact another plot.
Members also were asked to sign up for four committees that included opening, closing, maintenance and disciplinary.
At Tuesday's meeting, officers explained that the fee increase from $20 to $30 was essential to pay for increases in water costs, the cost of renting the plots from the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District that owns the cemetery, and the cost of plowing, maintenance and plowing under the crops.
For more information, call Betty Given at (304) 523-6431. For the cemetery office, call (304) 696-5516.
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