Community gardens turn empty lots and open spaces into green areas for growing fresh produce and plants. Community gardens encourage understanding and awareness of the environment around us, while rewarding the gardeners with home grown fruits, vegetables and other crops. Most are comprised of manageable sized garden plots that are joint projects created by members of the community and cared for by individuals. As such they also encourage opportunities for social gatherings, beautification, education and recreation.
Please sign our "Make San Diego Community Garden Friendly" online petition asking our elected officials to institute a reasonably-priced, simplified permitting process and to establish a citizen task force to find ways to make San Diego community garden friendly and then pass it on to anyone else you know who would like to sign it.
Several projects to establish community gardens in the City of San Diego with funding and community support cannot proceed without instituting changes that will eliminate the current roadblocks to establishing of community gardens. We feel it is urgent to adopt a constructive plan of action.
Also. If you would like to become involved with community gardens please complete our short survey on the Community Gardens page telling us about your interest in community gardens and add yourself to the master gardener email list checking your interest in receiving community garden news and announcements.
Find a Community Garden
or Farm Online maps of local community gardens and
farms with contact information.
Take
a short survey on your interest in San Diego Community
Gardens
Contact the Master Gardener Community Gardens Committee |
VISIT SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY GARDENS
To add a new garden to our list or to update existing information
on your garden please click here and complete
the Community Garden Update Form.
Click here to view a list of community
gardens to discover and learn about
our local San Diego Community Gardens. Or, download a list of local gardens and farms |
PLANTING CALENDAR
A Planting Calendar should show when seeds for each variety should
be planted, whether they are planted in plots or directly into
the garden, the number of days for germination, the length of time
until harvest and even a fertilizing schedule for the plants.
Download the Planting
Calendar Guide for assistance in preparing your
own Planting Calendar. |
VEGETABLE GARDEN
PLANTING GUIDE
This planting guide refers to the coastal
and inland regions of San Diego County. Planting
periods for some common cool and warm season
vegetables are given for a year having average
weather conditions.
Download the Vegetable Planting Guide here. |
BUILDING RAISED BEDS
Why build raised Beds? What should the size of
the raise beds be? What materials are needed
to construct raised beds? What is the procedure
to build raise beds?
Click this link building
raised beds.pdf to
download the file that will answer these
questions about building raised beds. |
COMMUNITY GARDEN
START - UP GUIDE (English)
This "Community Garden Start-Up Guide" is
intended to help neighborhood groups and
organizations along the path to starting
and sustaining a community garden.
Download the Community Garden Start-up Guide
(English) here. |
COMMUNITY GARDEN START
- UP GUIDE (Spanish)
El propósito de esta Guía para el Desarrollo
del jardín o huerto comunitario es ayudar
a grupos y organizaciones comunitarias a
iniciarse en la siembra y mantenimiento de
un jardín o huerto en su comunidad.
Guía para el Desarrollo del jardín o huerto
comunitario
Download the Community Garden Start-up Guide
(Spanish) here. |
