Plot Assignment Process

Plot applicants: To be put on the Wait List, you must mail a postcard to our P.O. box. Regardless of how many names appear on a postcard, each postcard is treated as one entity, will occupy only one line on the Wait List and will be offered only one plot. Postcards will be added to the end of the Wait List in the order they are postmarked.

Plot-holders and those already on the Wait List have these options:
Sublet List: A person on the Wait List near the top of the list may be offered the chance to garden a sublet plot for one season. At the end of the one year sublease, the wait list gardener goes back to the top of the Wait List in the original order.

Swap List: A gardener with a plot may ask to trade his or her plot and will be put on the Swap List. Requests will be added to the end of the list in the order they are received by the Plot Committee. Only current gardeners with plots to trade will be put on this list.

Plot Assignments: Plots that become available will be offered first to persons on the Swap List. If the first gardener declines a plot, the second gardener will be offered the same plot. Likewise, the plot the gardener trades in will be offered to other gardeners first on the Swap List and then on the Wait List.

Because time can be critical in a short growing season, if a person on either list cannot be reached after at least three phone calls on three different days, the next person on the list will be offered the plot. However, a person on the Wait List may give advance notice of an absence to a member of the plot subcommittee and may also give advance acceptance to the next available plot, sight-unseen. Calls to more than one person on the list may be made on a given day, as long as the second person is informed that the first person must be called once or twice more before the second person can accept the plot and skip over the previously contacted people. If skipped over, the first person does not lose his or her place on the list and will be contacted for the next available plot.

A gardener on the Swap List may decline up to three plots without losing his or her place on the list. However, after the third rejection he or she will move to the bottom of the Swap List. Everyone on the Wait List must accept the first plot offered. A new gardener may ask to trade his or her plot the next year by following procedures for the Swap List.

Click here to view layout of garden plots.Plot_Layout