Meeting place and oasis of well-being: 30 years of tenant gardens in Haar
Created: 08/05/2022, 1:00 p.m
By: Sabina Brosch
Hobby gardeners talking shop: Monika Kuhn (left) and Claudia Weber © Sabina Brosch
The Haarer Tenant Gardens in Jagdfeld are not only green oases of well-being, but also a building block for social interaction.
Many people want to garden today.
Preferably right in front of the front door.
Haar
– In Haar, the tenant gardens on Ferdinand-Kobell-Strasse have existed for 30 years;
23 plots of 33 square meters each.
A green oasis with cocktail tomatoes, courgettes, cucumbers or beans and lots of trees, bushes and flowers..
Anything but pesticides
Everything is ecologically managed, "because pesticides are not allowed," says Monika Kuhn.
She has been a happy gardener for three years and zucchini are just ripening in her bed, currants are hanging from a bush, and insects are allowed to feast on borage and lavender.
Since her retirement she has had time for her own garden.
"If it gets too hot in our apartment in the Jagdfeld, we also sit across for a snack," says Kuhn.
Monika Kuhn and Claudia Weber are thrilled
Claudia Weber also lives in the Jagdfeldsiedlung.
When a neighbor showed up at her door with a basket full of fruit and vegetables, “I was thrilled that it all grew in the middle of the city.
I immediately wanted a small garden plot like that, was lucky because there was one available”.
No one would give up their garden anymore: "It's so much fun!"
That's how it all started
30 years ago, the SPD in Haar came up with the idea of making the municipal area available for tenant gardens.
Herb gardens were to be created in which "everyone grows and harvests their own lettuce and turnips themselves," according to the mayor at the time, Hans Wehrberger.
The model project was supported by the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment.
All 23 plots are assigned
"All 23 plots are occupied, but there are no waiting lists," confirms Rainer Roth, Gartler board member until April of this year.
“Not enough people know that tenant gardens exist.
In addition, a garden like this involves work.” Some people underestimate that and “then give their garden back”.
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The conditions
The requirements are low.
It has to be a kitchen garden, so "just a lawn isn't possible," says Roth.
The tenant must also come from the adjacent residential area.
The applicant still has to undergo a small aptitude test, because “simply taking on everyone hasn’t proven itself.
He must also want to take care of the garden and fit into the existing community," says Roth.
His successor, Bernhard Lehner, who was elected in April and will now be in charge of the company, sees it that way too.
Mayor Andreas Bukowski pays a visit to the garden friends for the anniversary
Mayor Andreas Bukowski (CSU) also paid the garden friends a visit for the anniversary and enthuses: "What a beautiful green oasis in the middle of the city." And it should stay that way: "There is no desire to build on this area. "