This week, Langley’s garden spot got shoveled away.

A small growing plot that several Langley merchants planted three years ago on a tiny lot in Langley Village had to make room for progress this week when the groundwork started for a new building in the miniature commercial district within a commercial district.

The work sent Carolyn Schneider’s peas a’ packing, Sandra Boden’s flowers a’ flyin’, and made countless other vegetables and other plants homeless. But at least they had three years. When the first buildings went up in Langley Village 10 years ago, a vacant lot was unimaginable.

This spring, lot owner Steve Janes will build a three-story structure on the spot, which measures little more than 30 feet square. With that, three seasons of planting and harvesting are at an end — at least in that spot.

Travel agent Janet Ploof, who helped establish the village garden in 1998, said she was the garden’s brown thumb and will be again when she and her gardening friends plant new plots behind Langley’s liquor store and Island Travel.

“I’m mostly a shovel person,” she said.

Another one of the garden’s pioneers, Sandra Boden, said it is going to be difficult to replace the good soil she and the other gardeners developed in the three years of cultivation. Eventually, the new plots will probably yield bright flowers and tasty beans and lettuce, but they will not have the same feeling as the old garden. Boden, her husband Peter, and the other gardeners decorated the old plot by nailing a door to the side of the Bodens’ bakery building and putting up a fake window to make the place look like more of a neighborhood.

“It’s not going to be the same,” she said.

Schneider said it will be hard to beat the old garden’s productivity. With morning sunlight and surrounding buildings to catch the heat, her vegetables grew wild. Some of the produce even found its way into lunches at the Bodens’ Swiss bakery.

Planting in the new garden starts later this spring.