I’ve been too busy trying to keep up with my own garden and raise funds to start up the new Huntington Beach Community Garden to make my Harvest Monday post. I got a detailed budget worked out for the community garden, and we’re going to need about $25,000 each in materials and labor for a total budget of $50,000. We already have pledges for in-kind donations of about $14,000, plus we’ve raised several thousand dollars already by selling laser-engraved bricks, so we’re on our way. I hope to get that garden up and running late this fall, and plant some winter crops there in December. But, oh what a lot of work is going to need to be done before then.

Well, on to my own garden at home. I have both male and female flowers on my Summertop cucumbers. They are the best cucumber vines I’ve ever grown, so I’m hoping for some good cukes yet this season. My Boston pickling cukes were a bust. The Tendergreens in a pot gave me very few cukes. Go Summertops.

A green Savoy cabbage is heading up.

My winter cabbages didn’t do much, but these that I grew from seed and planted in spring may give me some cabbages yet. I have three of them surviving. Other than that, I didn’t get around to taking any photos, so on to the harvest, which was mostly green beans and tomatoes. Not that I’m complaining.

Harvest Monday August16, 2010

FRUIT

6.5 oz. Lemon, Meyer

9 oz. Peach

Subtotal Fruit 11.5 oz.

VEGETABLES

4 oz. Eggplant, Japanese Long

1 lb 7.5 oz. Green Beans, Blue Lake

2.5 oz. Kale, Scotch Blue Curled

0.5 oz. Onion, Green

7 oz. Onion, Red

4 oz. Onion, Yellow

2 oz. Pepper, Bell

1 oz. Sorrel

5 lbs 1.5 oz. Tomatoes

Subtotal Vegetables 7 lbs 14 oz.

TOTAL PRODUCE 8 lbs 9.5 oz. plus 11 eggs

If you had a harvest, visit Daphne’s Dandelions and post it on Mr. Linky.