Community Garden

Since the founding of Harvest Park over 15 years ago a community garden has been a recurring idea. It fits the “harvest” theme, and provides a garden location for people with HOA maintained yards or no ideal location on their lot. After a couple of smaller efforts over the years, the HOA is nearing completion of our full community garden vision.

There are 26 4’ x 8’ raised bed (18” tall) cedar garden boxes available to reserve for your own planting use (see picture below, the closes is a half size 4x4 box, but the others are 4x8). They are located in the Turtle Park at the Intersection of Silverleaf Drive, River Birch, and Aspen Way.  They are ready for planting with new garden soil and automatic drip irrigation on a timer (so no need to worry about watering every day).

All boxes are currently reserved, but if you would be interested in getting on the waiting list please fill out the form below. To help pay for water and other costs we are charging $40 per box this year (2023) with a $25 refundable deposit once your box is cleaned out at the end of the season.

Here are some planting ideas for the warm season, after the risk of freezing has passed (typically early May, or around Mother's day).   Any potted vegetable you can find at Lowes, Home Depot, or a garden center, works great. These include:

• Tomatoes (lots of varieties)

• Peppers (lots of varieties)

• Beans (lots of varieties, still from seed even)

• Zucchini

• Squash

• Cucumbers

• Herbs (basil, etc.)

And then there are lots of cold weather crops that you could plant earlier (in April) or later in the fall:

• Peas

• Radishes

• Lettuce/Spinach

• Brussel sprouts

• Broccoli

• Cauliflower

• Beets

• Turnips

• Green onions

There are few things that won’t be ideal, given space constraints, like: corn, pumpkins, or melons, but smaller vertically growing squash could work.  

The HOA will plant two shared boxes: an herb box and a strawberry box. Feel free to grab something from there as needed. This is part of a larger project we are wrapping up soon, which will include a picket fence around the garden, and flowering perennials and decorative plants around the fence, to provide a neat and appealing appearance to the garden area.