Get a plot in a community garden

• Add your name to a waiting list to get a garden plot.

• In early April, any available plots are assigned to people on the list.

• There is a maximum of one plot per street address.

• Borough residents are given priority.

Requested documents

• Photo ID
• Photo or PDF file showing proof of address for 2019 or 2020 (such as a utility bill)

• Registration takes place from February 25 to March 15.
• A limited number of spots are available. A draw may be held to assign garden plots.
• People signing up after March 15 will be assigned a plot if one is available, or will be put on a waiting list.
• Borough residents are given priority until May 15.
• Fees must be paid in cash at the garden’s annual general meeting in April or May.

Required documents

• Recreation card
• Completed registration form

• In order to obtain a garden, you must register to join the waiting list by contacting the non-profit organization (NPO) mandated by the city in your area:

  • Côte-des-Neiges: Société environnementale de Côte-des-Neiges (SOCENV)

  • Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: NDG Food Depot

• The NPO will send you a registration form to complete, sign and return. A valid proof of residence is required. After your information is validated, your name will be added to the waiting list.
• When a garden plot becomes available, the NPO contacts a person on the waiting list in order to offer it to them.
• Priority is given to residents of the borough.

By registering for the community gardens program, you must undertake to read the Cahier de fonctionnement des jardins communautaires (in French only) and comply with the code of conduct and the applicable regulations at all times.

For further information, please view our publications.

Communication channels
By e-mail:

• Registration for the gardens in the Côte-des-Neiges area: [email protected]
• Registration for the gardens in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area: [email protected]

• You can register by phone.
• Borough residents are given priority.

Communication channels

By phone

• Jardins Remembrance and Réal-Gareau: 514-634-3471 ext. 520
• Jardin Wilfrid-Vincent and Les petites pousses:  Sylvie Laurin at 514 589-0230

• To get a garden plot, you need to add your name to a waiting list. Send the relevant horticultural society (Société d’horticulture) a written request, including the following: your full name, your address and home phone number, the name of the community garden, and your age group.

• Starting April 1, any available plots are assigned on a first come, first served basis.

• Borough residents are given priority.

Communication channels

By phone

• Société d’horticulture de LaSalle - Jardin Charles-Nagy: 514-367-6000, ext. 6809
• Société d’horticulture des Rapides -Jardin des Rapides: 514-367-6000, ext. 6819

By post mail

Cheque only

• Société d’horticulture de LaSalle

Case postale 3125, Succursale Lapierre 

LaSalle, Québec H8N 3H3

• Société d’horticulture des Rapides

Case postale 47089, Succursale Place LaSalle 

LaSalle (Québec) H8P 3V9

• You must register online.
• Starting March 1, any available spots are assigned to citizens whose names  are on the waiting list. To add your name to the list, you must provide your full address. You can do this by email or by phone.

Required documents

• To access the online registration and payment system, you will need a valid card from the Montréal Public Libraries Network. This card is available free of charge. To get it, you must show ID with a valid recent address. The Grande Bibliothèque (BAnQ) card is not accepted.
• Accès Montréal card or municipal tax bill or utility bill (with your address) or valid driver’s license.

• To get a garden plot, you must register for the waiting list for the garden of your choice.
• People on the waiting list will be contacted once the renewal period is complete and the number of available plots has been confirmed.
• Garden plots are assigned according to the order of registration on the waiting list. 
• Registration on the waiting list does not guarantee that you will get a garden lot during the year or even the next year.
• Limit one garden plot per civic address.
• Priority to borough residents.

Are you waiting for a plot? Get involved in our partners’ community gardens! To find out more, contact L’éco-quartier du Sud-Ouest or Pro-Vert Sud-Ouest!

Depending on how many spaces are available, you will be billed according to the fee schedule below.

• To get a garden plot, you need to add your name to the waiting list and provide proof of residence.

• Starting May 1, 2019, any available plots will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis.

• Borough residents are given priority.
• A maximum of one plot will be assigned to each address.

Required documents 

• Municipal tax bill
• Utility bill showing your address
• Valid driver’s license
• Accès Montréal or resident card

• Borough residents are given priority.

Community gardens are temporarily located in the Université de Montréal Éphémères gardens.

• You can add your name to the waiting list for only one community garden.

• You can do this at any time throughout the year.

• Lists are sent to garden committees for follow-up. (They will tell you when to go to the garden in order to register).

• Only people who are assigned a spot will be contacted.

• Borough residents are given priority.

Requested documents 

One of the following proofs of residence:

• Accès Montréal card
• Municipal tax bill
• Utility bill
• Valid driver’s license

• You can add your name to the waiting list.

• People whose name is on the waiting list for a garden plot will be contacted and offered one of the plots that is available once the renewal period is over.

• Plots are assigned to people on the waiting list on a first come, first serve basis.

• Being on the list does not mean you are guaranteed a garden plot this year, or even next year.

• There is a limit of one garden plot for each street address.

• You may add your name to only one waiting list for a garden in the borough.

• Borough residents are given priority.

Are you waiting for a space to become available? Use your gardening skills on public property by participating in the “Faites comme chez vous” campaign (in French).

• To get a garden plot, send your request online or by mail.
• A draw will be held to assign garden plots to people who have sent a request.
• There is a maximum of one garden plot per address.
• Once selected, participants must show their Biblio-Loisirs card to get a plot.

Requested documents 

Hold a Biblio-Loisirs card

• You can add your name to the waiting list.
• Available garden plots are assigned to people on the list on a first come, first serve basis.

Required documents

Photocopy of one of the following proofs of residence:

• Accès Saint-Leonard card
• Municipal tax bill
• Utility bill
• Valid driver’s license

• Contact the organization in charge of community garden activities for information about registration and fees.
• New membership requests are added to a waiting list.
• Borough residents are given priority.

• You can add your name to the waiting list for the garden of your choice.
• A person can register on the waiting list for one community garden only.
• People on the waiting list will be contacted only if garden plots become available.
• Having your name on the waiting list does not guarantee that a garden plot will become available during the year in progress or during the following year.
• Garden plots are allocated based on the order of registration on the waiting list.
• Limit of one garden plot per civic address.

• Borough residents are given priority.

Required documents

One of the following proofs of residence:

• Municipal tax bill
• Utility bill
• Valid driver’s license
• Accès Montréal card
• Bank or credit card statement
• Office municipal d’habitation de Montréal lease

• You can add your name to the waiting list at anytime.

• Available garden plots are assigned on a first come, first served basis.