PLEASE NOTE: If this is your first time using our online software, you will be prompted to fill out and submit the application. After you submit, you will be automatically redirected to reserve your garden bed. When you select your bed, you will be prompted to enter a credit card number. When you click the "Submit" button, your selected bed has NOT been reserved. You will be taken back to the map and need to re-select your bed, and click the "Purchase Booth" button to successfully reserve your bed.
Welcome gardeners! Heritage Park Gardens (HPG) is maintained by a small group of volunteers, no paid staff. We do our best within our limits to maintain the outside pathways. Structures, demonstration gardens, labyrinth, and put on community events and fundraisers. We do not maintain the growing beds or the pathways between them. That is the responsibility of the renters.
How much time will it take? Gardens need frequent tending to be successful - weeding, checking for pests, covering, uncovering, etc. Plan to come out once a week and more often if you're covering and uncovering for late and early frosts or eradicating insects that have moved in, like aphids or squash bugs. If you are going to be gone for a while you might want to arrange with a friend or family to look after it for you. If you decide it's not working out for you and you want to give it up, please let us know so we can use it for something else or put it to bed for the season before the weeds run amok. Neglected beds may be forfeited if there's no response to a notification that there's a problem.
Our water is on from early April to late October, depending on the weather. Your bed rental includes a timed drip system. Not everyone’s needs will be the same, depending on what you're growing, how you arrange your drip lines, and where you are on the circuit, so each bed has a valve installed that allows you to reduce the water to your bed if you're getting too much. If you want more water, there are 3 faucets with hoses you can supplement your watering with. The drippers feed water to the root zone, so the soil on top may look dry, but stick your hand down into the dirt and you will likely (hopefully!) find it's moist down there where the plants need it. Mulching is helpful to retain moisture and reduce weeds. And please report any breaks in the distribution lines or geysers that you see so we can fix them. If you have a break in your bed, let us know and we will be happy to show you how to fix it. The irrigation supplies are in the shed.
Nevada's growing conditions can be challenging. Our volunteers are happy to advise you and shorten the learning curve based on our experiences, especially if you are new to this. The Extension Office across the street from Lampe Park is a great resource, and their horticulturist Jessica Gardener puts on gardening education presentations during the summer evenings at the gardens. We'll email timely tips as the season progresses and are putting together information pieces on "What Grows Best at Heritage" and "How to Manage Pests at Heritage". We want folks to have a good experience here, so if you have questions, please let us know.
