Well, what are you trying to do with the garden? Grow veggies for everyone to take home, or use in the cafeteria, or what? And who all is working on it, just you, or are there other employees in on it? If there are other employees in on it, have they suggested anything? How much time will you have to spend on tending the garden?

Maybe ask around at work and see what all people would like to see planted in the garden? Or perhaps put up a notice on the break room bulletin board asking what people would like? That may backfire if you don't get many suggestions or too many- and you only have oh so long to prep the garden for planting.

Yeah, normally the term "community garden" means lots of different folks will be using it to garden and each of them decides what they will plant in it. All the garden manager has to do is divide it into plots and oversee the usage and the access to water.

If this is instead your garden and you are growing for all the employees then you can plant whatever you wish after a survey of them as to what they would be interested in eating. For example why grow radishes or winter squash if no one wants to eat them? :)

The size would limit you on some crops as they would need much more room to produce much unless you wanted just 1 or 2 vegetables growing there. But tomatoes, green beans, leafy greens like spinach and lettuce, green salad onions, cucumbers, yellow and green summer squash, hot and sweet peppers are always popular.

You could divide the plot into 4-6 plots and treat each as a separate bed, 1 for each crop you pick, and that way you can do succession planting (ie: plant the beans in the lettuce plot after the lettuce begins to bolt from the heat).

Hope this helps.

Dave

I helped a friend plan a garden at a Kaiser Medical facility. It was not a community garden, but a garden showing how many plants could actually be grown in a back yard in this area!

I would also check out some community gardens in your area to see what they are growing, also ask the employees what they want and what is available in your area! Nancy