Victory Garden harvest Thursday.
YTD 251 lbs + 12 lbs Monday + 18 lbs Thursday + 28 lbs today = 309 lbs!!!
The Crosswinds Roots and Shoots Club and Ms McGee limed and put fish emulsion plot 4 raised beds and picked 12 lbs of sweet peas on Monday which I took to Page Robbins.
Thursday I picked 14 lbs of onions and 4 lbs of chard and beets and took to the Food Pantry. Today I picked 28 lbs of Texas sweet yellow onions and will take on Thursday to the Food Pantry.
Link to today's pix. X
YTD pix link: XX
Today In Sung and I got it all the seedlings planted this morning. In Sung works very hard and expertly.
We planted and watered and fertilized 20 tomato plants, 12 squash, 12 bush cucumbers, 49 bell/jalapeno/cubanelle peppers, 6 spagetty squash, 4 icebox watermelons, and 11 cantaloupes. Harvested 28 lbs of peppers to dry out in garage till Thursday. We mulched one row of peppers with 2 bags of grass someone had left.
Whit had mowed and it looks so nice.
Wes will move the much this weekend ino the 2 unplanted raised beds.
Things to do this week:
garlic pulling party Monday 2pm!
pull weeds everywhere.
move last wheelbarrow of leaves and the mulch into the 2 unplanted raised beds. (wes)
hoe/weed the peas.
pick the sweetpeas.
get about 50 bags of leaved to mulch all middles and around all plants. see plot 6 aisle row as an example.
get all the weeds out of plot 1 to prep for sweet taters next week. OK to pull/hoe/till since lots of weeds.
cw
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.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Harvest Thursday May 19, 2011
Victory Garden harvest Thursday May 19 2011
YTD 239 lbs + 5 lbs Monday + 7 lbs today = 251 lbs!!!
Candice and I picked 7 lbs chard, radishes, onions, and some scrawny carrots. I took them to the Food Pantry.
Wednesday Jimmy conducted a tour for a group from the VA Hospital.
Today we sponsored an Ask-A-Master-Gardener booth at the YMCA Senior Expo Fair.
Next work day, Lord willing, we will get the last of the leaves and dirt into the raised beds and set out transplants: squash, cucumber, cantalope, peppers, and tomatoes. That is Monday May 23 from 5-7pm.
Be there or be square. :)
cw
YTD 239 lbs + 5 lbs Monday + 7 lbs today = 251 lbs!!!
Candice and I picked 7 lbs chard, radishes, onions, and some scrawny carrots. I took them to the Food Pantry.
Wednesday Jimmy conducted a tour for a group from the VA Hospital.
Today we sponsored an Ask-A-Master-Gardener booth at the YMCA Senior Expo Fair.
Next work day, Lord willing, we will get the last of the leaves and dirt into the raised beds and set out transplants: squash, cucumber, cantalope, peppers, and tomatoes. That is Monday May 23 from 5-7pm.
Be there or be square. :)
cw
Monday, May 16, 2011
Victory Garden work and harvest 5/16/2011
Monday May 16, 2011, Carl, Whit & Jan, Martha, Candice, and two more ladies:
- Planted 2 more beds (4 rows) of purple hull peas.
- Mowed.
- Did a lot of weeding.
- Applied organic spray to potato plants.
- Continued moving leaves and dirt into raised beds in addition to what Wes had already done this past weekend.
- Dave Fitzgerald hilled up two of the rows of potatoes on Saturday.
- Harvested about 4 pounds sweet peas. Will take to Page Robbins Tuesday.
- Harvested about a pound of garlic scapes.
Will harvest kale, chard, onions, sweet peas Thursday morning 7am for the Food Pantry.
Tom Mashour donated sveral more tomato plants and a large number of pepper plants which we will plant next Monday eveing.
We need lots of bag of grass to completely mulch the garden deeply and to filling the raised beds.
Thanks,
Carl
- Planted 2 more beds (4 rows) of purple hull peas.
- Mowed.
- Did a lot of weeding.
- Applied organic spray to potato plants.
- Continued moving leaves and dirt into raised beds in addition to what Wes had already done this past weekend.
- Dave Fitzgerald hilled up two of the rows of potatoes on Saturday.
- Harvested about 4 pounds sweet peas. Will take to Page Robbins Tuesday.
- Harvested about a pound of garlic scapes.
Will harvest kale, chard, onions, sweet peas Thursday morning 7am for the Food Pantry.
Tom Mashour donated sveral more tomato plants and a large number of pepper plants which we will plant next Monday eveing.
We need lots of bag of grass to completely mulch the garden deeply and to filling the raised beds.
Thanks,
Carl
Friday, May 13, 2011
Victory Garden harvest Thursday May 12 2011
YTD 203 lbs + 36 lbs (tare) today = 239 lbs!!!
Link to pix.
The pix include various shots of the garden plus a family who toured the garden plus the Stanfords ((l-r) Sophia, Aidan, Susan, and Grayson) who helped harvest 36 lbs of onions, broccoli, sweetpeas, reddishes, and turnips this morning which I took to the Food Pantry.
We only have 4 broccoli plants and one had started to bolt. We got the onions (about a tenth) that had begun to flower. We got all the rest of the reddishes (yes I can spell but am Southren), and turnip greens.
Our new purplehull peas have sprouted.
We plan to work in the garden Monday 5-7pm. We will plant more rows of purplehull peas, do some weeding, and continue putting organic material (bring bags of leaves and grass) and dirt into the new raised beds. Come join us and have fun!!!
cw
Link to pix.
The pix include various shots of the garden plus a family who toured the garden plus the Stanfords ((l-r) Sophia, Aidan, Susan, and Grayson) who helped harvest 36 lbs of onions, broccoli, sweetpeas, reddishes, and turnips this morning which I took to the Food Pantry.
We only have 4 broccoli plants and one had started to bolt. We got the onions (about a tenth) that had begun to flower. We got all the rest of the reddishes (yes I can spell but am Southren), and turnip greens.
Our new purplehull peas have sprouted.
We plan to work in the garden Monday 5-7pm. We will plant more rows of purplehull peas, do some weeding, and continue putting organic material (bring bags of leaves and grass) and dirt into the new raised beds. Come join us and have fun!!!
cw
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Victory Garden harvest for the Food Pantry 5-12-2011
YTD 203 lbs + 36 lbs (tare) today = 239 lbs!!!Link to pix.
The pix include various shots of the garden plus a family who toured the garden plus the Stanfords ((l-r) Sophia, Aidan, Susan, and Grayson) who helped harvest 36 lbs of onions, broccoli, sweetpeas, reddishes, and turnips this morning which I took to the Food Pantry.
We only have 4 broccoli plants and one had started to bolt. We got the onions (about a tenth) that had begun to flower. We got all the rest of the reddishes (yes I can spell but am Southren), and turnip greens.
Our new purplehull peas have sprouted.
We plan to work in the garden Monday 5-7pm. We will plant more rows of purplehull peas, do some weeding, and continue putting organic material (bring bags of leaves and grass) and dirt into the new raised beds. Come join us and have fun!!!
cw
Monday, May 9, 2011
Victory Garden Work and Harvest 5/7 & 9/2011
YTD production= 186 lbs + 12 lbs last week + 5 lbs this week = 203 lbs.
Saturday May 7 and Monday May 9, 2011, interns Rita and Candice, the Crosswind Elementary School Roots & Shoots Club, me, Les, Peg, Whit, Wes and Girl Scout troop moms and girls: (hope I did not leave anyone out)
mowed and edged.
moved some of the dirt to raised beds.
moved most of the leaves to the raised beds.
hand weeded.
harvested sweet peas and reddishes and took to Page Robbins.
planted 25 beauregard and 25 porto rico sweet tater plants.
planted 2 rows top pick purple hull peas.
planted 4 rows pinkeye purple hull peas.
planted 8 better boy maters.
planted burpee slicing cucumbers and yellow straightneck squash between the maters.
planted marigold plants tween the maters.
planted white marigold seeds in aisle side plot 6.
planted 8 CA wonder green bell pepper and 4 black beauty eggplants in plot 6.
put Carbon Boost and catfish emulsion and osmocote in holes where everything was planted.
provided product of modern chemistry on bug infested taters.
watered all new plants (Monday).
reapplied poison on the ant hill.
conducted tour for Jim Townsend, Farm Manager, Binghampton Community Garden.
broccoli is almost ready to pick.
all plants donated by halls feed and bonnie farms.
Thursday 7am I will harvest some onions, sweet peas, reddishes, and all the greens and take to the Food Pantry.
We found an adult rabbit head in plot 1 today, and the rear spigot had been disassembled and reattached leaving most of the hardware on the ground.
We NEED to front wheel of the wheel barrow fixed and the rear spigot reassembled.
Next Monday we plant remaining rows in plots 1 and 2 with purple hull peas, and continue moving dirt into the raised beds so we can put more plants in them.
Aint God good!!!
.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Victory Garden 5-5-11
See the pix of todays harvest and a new zinnia bed my family is creating in a median on Peterson lake Rd. PIX Link
Today I picked 12 lbs of kale, chard, reddishes, and buttercrunch lettuce and took to the Collierville Food Pantry.
Saturday 2-4:30 and Monday 5-7pm are BIG work days at the garden. We need everyone to be there and get the garden recovered from the torrential rains and plant the summer garden.
My cell phone 485-6910.
Today I picked 12 lbs of kale, chard, reddishes, and buttercrunch lettuce and took to the Collierville Food Pantry.
Saturday 2-4:30 and Monday 5-7pm are BIG work days at the garden. We need everyone to be there and get the garden recovered from the torrential rains and plant the summer garden.
My cell phone 485-6910.