Shelton will have a second community garden site come spring.
The city’s Community Garden committee is accepting early registration forms to reserve a plot at the new site, which is slated to be located off Soundview Ave.
“They earlier people get in, the higher up they’ll be on the list,” said Teresa Gallagher, the city’s conservation agent and a member of the community garden committee.
The committee hasn’t decided how many plots will be available at the new site.
The first site — off Long Hill Avenue — opened this summer with 30 plots.
Gallagher said that despite a hot, dry summer, the growing was good at the garden.
“The hardest thing was we didn’t have water, and it was one of the driest summers,” Gallagher said.
The committee is hoping to have a water line installed at the Long Hill site before the next growing season.
The Soundview site doesn’t have water right now either, Gallagher said, but the committee is reviewing ways to fix that.
Gallagher said the second site is needed because of Shelton’s size and the demand for plots at the first garden.
There was a waiting list for plots at the Long Hill site.
And some gardeners were driving from the far ends of the city just to get there, Gallagher said.
For more information about the community garden, visit the website for the city’s conservation commission.
Click here to see Gallagher’s photo slide show from the existing garden.
