Watering Roster
December 2025 & January 2026

Here is our watering roster for our community garden over the next 2 months. It is
much easier now we have a number of beds under irrigation. These beds are clearly
identified & don’t need to be watered. The hot house also has an automatic sprinkler
system so the plants therein don’t need watering either. Those that do need hand
watering include: the fruit trees, the raspberries, the beds on the right hand fence of the
garden, the pumpkins, the four square beds near the pergola & the 2 kiwi vines on the
ladder trellis. Please water the garden beds three to four times during your week. Water
the fruit trees 1-2 times for 10 mins to give them a good soaking. All this is weather
dependent, of course. The current gate code is 1954. The lock has front & back written on
it now. Please ensure it is oriented correctly as it is very difficult to unlock if the front is at
the back.
When in the garden, please feel free to harvest produce other than that in the beds
designated for charity.
If you are unable to water during your designated week, please arrange to swap with
someone else on the list. If this is not possible, please contact Vivien Smale.
Date                   Name
8 – 14 Dec          Martin Drerup
15– 21 Dec         Doug & Marjorie McLaine
22 -28 Dec          Gloria & Barry Watson
29 Dec – 4 Jan    John & Pamela Dewhurst
5 – 11 Jan          John & Angela Crough
12 – 18 Jan        Lynne Woollard & Vivien Smale 
19 – 25 Jan        Lucy Firth & David Mellor 
26 Jan -1 Feb     Rob & Julie Everstyen 

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If you would like to be added to the watering roster please contact Vivien on 0400 778 668

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Donations to our garden

We really appreciate that we have members who want to donate garden tools, equipment, seating etc to our garden. We have had some very good items given to us.

We have also had dropped off at the garden items that are of no use to us or are in bad condition. This means our Committee then have to take it to the tip. 

Please ensure that items are in good useable condition; if it is no good for your garden it will not be suitable for us.

If you have anything to donate can you give Wendy Turner a call on 0407 006 977 before dropping it at the garden.

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• If anyone has any rusty old tools or farm implements that would look good hanging on our fence collection we would welcome them. Please drop them at the garden.

• Members and all local residents are reminded you can bring down your home kitchen green waste and drop it off at the garden into our compost bays or in the green bin at the gate; leaves and very small stuff from your garden is good but please no branches or woody materials. And the green plastic bags the council supply may break down in a professional composting situation but not in our compost bays.

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Working Bees

We now hold working bees for all members at the garden on the 1st Sunday of every month starting at 10 am to noon.

We finish with morning tea in the garden if the weather is suitable, otherwise in the pavilion. Members are welcome to bring a plate.​

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Your Committee:

Our annual meeting was held on 5 October 2025 and the committee and office bearers are:

President:    Wendy Turner

Secretary:   Libby Weir  

Treasurer – Warwick Watson 

General committee members:

• Tony Weir

• Vivien Smale    

• Anne van Veen  

• Deb Olive

• Christine Seedsman

• Marilyn Cunnington

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Sub-Committees:

Our General Committee now has an enthusiastic group of members, however if you would like to help out we are always looking for members to join our sub-committees. You do not need to be on the General Committee.

Please contact Wendy Turner (wendyturner22@gmail.com) if you would like to assist.

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Your Committee meets every month.

Please note the Committee will have an agenda to work through, but we want this to be an inclusive group and all members are welcome to attend Committee Meetings. Please contact our President Wendy Turner prior to the meeting if you wish to attend.

 

Communication to Members​

All our communication is via email. We do not post out anything. It is your responsibility to keep your email contact details with us up to date. Please send any amendments to bcgveggies@gmail.com

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Garden Rules

The Committee have drawn up a simple set of Garden Rules:

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• All plots are communal and major gardening decisions will be made by consensus of the committee and members.

• Tools must be cleaned and put away when not in use and if any tools or areas are damaged, please contact a committee member.

• Children to be supervised.

• No smoking inside the garden area or pavilion.

• No dogs allowed

• Ensure premises are locked when leaving.

• We respect the environment and do not use any harmful chemicals to control weeds and pests.

• Settle any dispute through calm discussion and goodwill. If issue remains unsolved the committee will have final decision.

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These rules will be on display in the pavilion.​​

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Membership stays $20 per family for 2025/2026 year

 

Our $20 household membership fee remains unchanged.  Our membership year runs from 1st September to 31st August each year. All members are asked to pay their new years subs via direct bank deposit. The gate access code will be changed on Monday 3rd November 2025. 

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Existing members: you do not need to fill in a new membership form. Please just pay via direct bank transfer to:

Bendigo Bank bsb 633 000      account number: 167642008

account name: Blairgowrie Community Garden.

Make sure you add your name to the bank transfer.

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New Members: please click the "Join Us" tab on this website and complete the online application form and pay your $20 fee.

 

Thank you for your support of the community garden.  We look forward to your membership renewal.

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Use of the Pavilion​

Included in our lease with Council we have the rights to use the old tennis pavilion. 

Access to the pavilion is via keys which are in the key safe next to the pavilion door. The key safe uses the same 4 digit code as the garden access gate.

It is our responsibility to keep it clean and tidy. The kitchen has a kettle and the Garden provides tea bags and instant coffee so please help yourself. There is a fridge in the kitchen but it is not feasible for the Garden to supply fresh milk, so please bring your own or check in the cupboard as there may be long life milk there.

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There is a first aid kit and sunscreen in the kitchen. During working bees and open days over summer members are reminded to use the sunscreen. There is also a big supply of hand sterilizer in the pavilion which was donated to us.

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Access to our garden

All members have been supplied with the code for the padlock which allows access to the garden. Some members have had trouble opening the padlock. Some of that is caused by the previous person locking the gate; please ensure that the "Master" brand name is facing up when the lock is closed. Otherwise it will be upside down for the next person.

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If you have the correct 4 digit code you will not need to force the padlock, but it does not pop open, just a gentle pull. If you are having problem opening the lock here is a short video. For the purpose of this video only, the code is 1161. It is not the actual current code.