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.
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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.
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