Victory Garden status 6/30/2011 next work day TUESDAY July 5 5-7pm

Victory Garden status 6/30/2011

YTD 666 lbs + 21 lbs today = 687 lbs!!!

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Monday June 27:

Linda Faile and Zoe (? but I recognize her expert work) finished pulling the weeds from the last two tater rows and hilled them up nicely. They also did more hand weeding and mulching.

Thursday June 30:
Carl and Mimi (intern) harvested maters and gorgeous red cabbages and took them and the new found taters to the Food Pantry. Also finished mulching plot 3 and most of plot 6 and took two wagon loads and 2 barrels full of weeds and trash to the dunpster.

Since next Monday is July 4th, we will work Tuesday July 5th from 5-7pm. All we need to do is to finish mulching plots 1 and 5 and plant peas in the last 2 tater rows and take two more loads of weeds and to the dumpster.

We continue to look for a place to have a garlic themed dinner with net proceeds to charity. Garlic at the CFM this morning was selling for $4 pound.

Aint God good!!!
Carl

Victory Garden status 6/23/2011

Victory Garden status 6/23/2011

YTD 577 lbs + 89 lbs today = 666 lbs!!!

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Monday June 20:
Carl, Peg, Mimi (intern) and Zoe pulled weeds and prepared the beds and planted peas where we dug potatoes and carrots last Thursday. That morning CW Doss applied granular nitrogen to the whole garden. Tuesday AM Carl watered the garden thereby bringing on the heavy rain that afternoon. You're welcome.

Thursday June 23:
Carl, Jamie ?, and Emma Jean Bass (intern) dug the last 2 rows of taters (74 lbs).
Also cut last few green cabbages, picked some green maters, and one huge volunteer turnip and took to the Food Pantry.

Dave Fitzgerald has sorted the garlic, saved next years seed bulbs, and tied up the rest in his garage. He must have a super tolerant wife!

Next work day Monday June 28 5-7pm.
Plan is to clean out, hill up, and plant peas in the two rows we dug taters this morning, and to continue to spread grass clippings on every inch of bare ground.

Anyone have a place big enough for a charity garlic dinner on a Saturday? Remember the building will smell like garlic for a few days.

Aint God good!!

cw

Victory Garden status 6/16/2011

Victory Garden status 6/16/2011

YTD 429 lbs + 148 lbs today = 577 lbs!!!

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Monday June 13, 2011:
Carl, Janene, Martha G and Eric:
Planted peas where the garlic was.
Mulched plot 3 with bags of grass.
Germantown church of Christ youth group:
Mulched the raised beds and rear cross walk.

Wednesday Whit and Carl conducted tour for the Apple Grove staff.

Thursday:
Carl, CW Doss, Peg and Emma:
Harvested 3 rows of taters (74 lbs), all the rest of the carrots (70 lbs) and 4 pounds of maters, cabbages, and a squarsh.
Took it all to the Food Pantry.

Monday work plan 5-7pm:
Plant peas where the 3 rows of taters and the carrots were.

cw

Victory Garden status and work day Monday 6/13/2011

On Saturday morning In Sung, Wes, and moi:

Picked up 3 Bluebird's full of grass clippings.
Mulched most of the rest of the garden.
(Monday 6/13 6:15 Herschel brought pickup truckload of grass clippings. YEAH!)
Weeded and watered.
Planted 12 more tomato plants, replanted pea skips and sweet tater skips.
Harvested 65 more lbs beautiful garlic total of 235 lbs. The Red Toch's are amazing!

I watered 1 and 4, and 3 and 6 thoroughly this morning.

CA article on Victory Garden garlic:
http://memphisareamastergardeners.org/28/1203/album.html
I am still trying to arrange garlic themed garlic dinner to benefit Page Robbins.

Wednesday morning at 9am we have a tour of folks from Apple Grove Alzheimer's and Dementia Residence. Leader is Leigh Hendry .

Monday tonight's goals:
Plant/fertilize/water peas where the garlic was in plot 3. One row in outside bed and one row in bed next to the asparagus and two rows in the middle.
Water the outside rows of all plots where the hoses don't reach well.
Water plots 2 and 4 by hand.
Always put or smother with grass any weeds you see.
Apply grass clippings mulch to the raised beds and around the sweet taters in plot 1 and outside row in plot 1.

Later this week:
Spray liquid MiracleGro on everything.
Apply nitrogen on everything. Fill empty Osmocote shaker bottles and shake over each plant about a spoonful per plant.
Run sprinklers on front 2 and back 2 plots MWF and middle plots TTS for 2 hours.

Thursday morning early 6:30 until 8:00AM dig/pull two rows of red potatoes and all remaining carrots and take to the Food Pantry.
Then plant crowder peas (2 rows each bed) in those empty places.

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Victory Garden status 6/9/2011

Victory Garden status 6/9/2011

YTD 395 lbs + 34 lbs today = 429 lbs!!!

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Monday June 6, 2011 Carl, Eric Reed, Les, Whit, Zoe, Martha Garner, Linda Faile, and In Sung:

Gathered 26 bags of grass clippings and attacked with hoes and the grass clippings.

Planted 100 each Beauregard and Porto Rico sweet tater slips and walked and watered them in.

Janet showed me how to use our hose on the rear spigot. Since there are timers on two of the spigots, do not turn the water off on them by pulling down the lever.

Whit watered the back two plots thoroughly and repaired the wheelbarrow.

Jeff aired up the tires on the wagon.

I watered the middle two plots on Wednesday.

Today I harvested about 1/3 carrots and some cabbages for total 34 lbs and took to the Food Pantry. I watered and weeded all of the front 2 plots.

Next work is Saturday morning 8am to harvest rest of the beautiful garlic.

cw

Victory Garden status 6/2/2011

Victory Garden status 6-2-2011

Victory Garden harvest Thursday.
YTD 309 lbs + 86 lbs today = 395 lbs!!! (28 lbs onions were in last total)

Pix

Jimmy and I picked cabbages, carrots, beets, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, and chard and along with the 28 lbs of onions picked on Monday took all 114 lbs to the Food Pantry this morning.

We also planted 11 more pepper plants and 2 Mortgage Lifter mater plants.

I have 200 sweet taters to plant this weekend.
We need 50-60 bags of grass clippings to mulch the rest of the garden.
We need to put the cages from the storage area over the tomato plants.

We picked 170 lbs of garlic. Some were huge. Still 1/3 to go as well and 2/3 of the carrots and 1/2 the cabbages. The garlic are drying in Dave Fitzgerld's garage. He must have a very tolerant wife. I have not added the garlic into our YTD total yet.

cw