CVG status October 2010:
The Collierville Victory Garden is beautiful, bountiful and a blessing to the needy people of our community. This month we have harvested almost a thousand pounds of fresh, tasty, sustainably grown veggies: peas, eggplants, collards, sweet taters, turnips and turnip greens.
The Jeff Golladay inspired raised humus beds have been amazing, including making it easy to simply pull the sweet taters out of the deep friable beds. We have averaged about an astounding five pounds of sweet taters per linear row foot.
We will be harvesting collards, rutabagas, onions, Bonnie hybrid cabbages, Savoy cabbages, and turnip greens deep into the season.
We have been blessed with three school groups this month coming to lift, laugh, and learn.
We will plant 30-40 varieties of garlic soon. Another fun experiment.
The Habitat For Humanity holding beds are full, and the combination of morning glories and moonflowers on the entrance trellis is breathtaking.
With much of the garden cleared, now is the time to come see and wiggle your toes in the deep humus beds.
BTW: I ate a raw okra. Deelish!
The Collierville Victory Garden and Butterfly Haven is committed to the Memphis Area Master Gardeners' mission to pass on the joy of gardening and UT Extension horticultural knowledge. Through the generosity of the Collierville Christian Church and MAMG, this Plant-A-Row for the Hungry (PAR) garden donates its vegetables to the Collierville Food Pantry, Resurrection Catholic School and Fayette County Project Outreach and its flowers to Page Robbins and Habitat for Humanity.
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