diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ead788319..5b8787714 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 *~
 *.DS_Store
 credentials.sh
+Pathogen:
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Pathogen: b/Pathogen:
deleted file mode 100644
index a5b3293af..000000000
--- a/Pathogen:
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-clean up extra line in garden_spec.
diff --git a/app/models/garden.rb b/app/models/garden.rb
index a2bd553e7..13d8927c6 100644
--- a/app/models/garden.rb
+++ b/app/models/garden.rb
@@ -36,12 +36,6 @@ class Garden < ActiveRecord::Base
     return unique_plantings[0..3]
   end
 
-  def replace_blank_name
-    if self.name.nil? or self.name =~ /^\s*$/
-      self.name = "(no name)"
-    end
-  end
-
   def to_s
     name
   end
diff --git a/lib/tasks/growstuff.rake b/lib/tasks/growstuff.rake
index 15cdb61a6..fb87ea319 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/growstuff.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/growstuff.rake
@@ -26,15 +26,17 @@ namespace :growstuff do
       end
     end
 
-    task :empty_names => :environment do
-      desc "May 2013: replace any empty garden names with (no subject)"
+    task :empty_garden_names => :environment do
+      desc "May 2013: replace any empty garden names with Garden"
 
       # this is inefficient as it checks every Garden, but the
       # site is small and there aren't many of them, so it shouldn't matter
       # for this one-off script.
-      Garden.all.each do |n|
-        n.replace_blank_name
-        n.save
+      Garden.all.each do |g|
+        if g.name.nil? or g.name =~ /^\s*$/
+          g.name = "Garden"
+          g.save
+        end
       end
     end