In article wildbilly-A73F81.21344720102008@c-61-68-245-
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In short, it isn't worth the pain to give the space to wannabees who
aren't willing to make a serious, up-front investment in their, albeit
temporarily theirs, garden.

We don't do it any more.

Sorry your faith was stolen. Maybe you could expect less. It's a
learning experience for everybody.

People tend to value what they put money into or they value what makes
them money. Two kinds of direct feedback that result in, among other
things, food.

What works with the public gardens here, is a flat, nominal investment
of $80 whatever your financial status. There is a contract that
delineates your responsibility and after signing, the plot is yours.

Then there's social pressure to keep up with or better the neighbours...

As I see it, the sickology of yard sharing is a bit different and the
only way I can see to alleviate the issues we encountered and maybe
those mentioned by CanopyCo is through a model based on and
administered by a public garden system.

We won't do it again for the reasons I've given but then we've also
moved on and our space is in use and every expansion is spoken for a
year in advance.

I'm glad this topic has come up because I've been refining the idea of
an herb project with local self-sufficiency in rare and not so rare
herbs as the goal. -- If it produces nothing more than local
consciousness raising, it will be useful in this locked-sphincter
Canadian city.

....and maybe I can turn our local weeds into herbs :-)