Victory Garden Tuesday July 24, 2012

Another wonderful week in the Victory Garden. We are so blessed.


Monday morning July 23 I picked 11 lbs of maters and a cantaloupe and peas and peppers and took to the ladies on Harris Cove. 


Jimmy and Jeff and I met with the CA photographer. I met with the reporter Chris Gang last week. We should be in the CA Friday garden section this week or next.


Monday afternoon Jan, Selby, and I picked 49 lbs of maters, peas, and a cantaloupe, which I took this morning to the town sanitation workers checkin/out station on Keough Rd.


 Jimmy Gafford and Selby Horton have committed to picking this week, either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, and weigh it and take to the Collierville Food Pantry. BIG THANKS!!! They could use more help!!!! 


More cantaloupes should be ready. They are ready when you move them and they slip off the vine without pulling (the cantaloupes, not Jimmy and Selby).

2,722  lbs YTD + 11 + 49 = 2,782 lbs new YTD!


Connie cut zinnias and delivered them to the Literacy Council and the Bible Museum. Aren't they beautiful!!!!!

Aint God good!!!

Victory Garden status Friday July 20, 2012

Another wonderful week in the Victory Garden. We are so blessed.

Thursday July 19 I picked 42 lbs of peas and maters and eggplants and jolly penyo peppers. I went to the FP and saw Bellevue Baptist had dropped off more produce than the FP could use, so I left the peas and took the other produce to two duplexes on South Street.


Friday July 20 I picked 16 lbs peas and 5 lbs maters and took to Mrs Johnson 202 South Street.


Chris Gang of the CA, AKA the Daily Wiper, visited the garden and interviewed moi and Jimmy and Jeff. Sposed to have professional photographer from the CA early Monday morning and then be in the CA garden section next Friday, July 27, when me and Mimi and daughter and 3 granddarlings will be soaking in the sun and sand in the Phoenix V condo Orange Beach AL, AKA LA, Lower Alabama. You can find me on the balcony munching Cajun style biled peanuts and rereading the Foxfire books in case I ever need to kill a hog (again) or make some butter or saurkraut. It cant hurt to know that.

2,659 lbs YTD + 42 + 21 = 2,722 lbs new YTD!

Plan to pick peas and maters and eggplants Monday 430pm in the afternoon, if it ain't storming and it is less than 95 degrees.


Laura Ruth and Connie Bogema are lovingly tending the zinnia beds and taking cut flowers to Baptist Trinity Hospice, Dove Rehab, Page Robbins, the VA Hospital, and others.


We now have a leveret, at least one, but I see no damage and it was munching on grass.


Sumbuddy else gotta harvest next Thursday morning and weigh it and take to the Food Pantry as I will be LA. LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!


Mrs Doris Harper 180 South Main is elderly and can no longer pick her figs and needs someone to pick them for her. Need a ten foot ladder. She only has one tree. 853-4209


Me and SIL Scotty Shive tilled the CHS front flower bed.


Make sure you visit the Bobby Lanier Farm on the northeast corner of the Gtown Elementary School propity. I will be doing some sessions there and they need more for Meet-The-Farmer series. This farm is definitely worth the drive!

Aint God good!
cw

Victory Garden status July 17, 2012

Another wonderful week in the Victory Garden. We are so blessed.

On Monday July 16, Bob, Whit, and I picked 15 lbs of peas and 82 lbs maters which I took this morning: peas to the ladies on Harris Cv (Julia Ferguson) and maters to the town sanitation station for distribution to the trash pickup employees.


Whit continues to keep the place mowed and trimmed. I sprayed the weeds around the compost pile behind the stockade.

2,562 lbs YTD + 97 Monday = 2,659


Patree dropped off some plants for the HFH team.


Thursday morning 615am I will pick peas and maters and eggplants.

We have beautiful cantaloupes under the leaves. Some look like they will be reddy in a week or two.

You ask how does one walk thru our pea and cantaloupe patches with them a riot of vines, since we plant intensively with at least twicet as many plants as conventional gardens in the same space. Answer: Indian walk (or cat walk). Put a put down and change if you feel something such as a vine or fruit or critter, and only put your weight on that foot when it feels OK.

Aint God good!
cw

Victory Garden status July 12, 2012

Another wonderful week in the Victory Garden. We are so blessed.

On Monday July 9, Bob, Whit, Patree, and I picked 81 lbs of peas, maters, and eggplants which Bob took on Wednesday with the PAR Davies Garden produce downtown.

Connie and Laura kep the zinnia beds beautiful and take cut flowers to Baptist Trinity Hospice, Dove Rehab, and some fire stations.

This morning I picked 55 lbs of maters and eggplants and peas. I took the peas to the Food Pantry, and delivered the maters and eggplants to folks on South Street. The Food Pantry has very few clients at the moment, and I have been having to pick up most of what we deliver and distribute it myself to elderly people south of the tracks. See pictures above. Note if you ever need a place to Loiter, see the sign at 202 South Street. I also picked 2 lbs of ripe tomatoes which had split and took them home for a quality control check. They are not included in our total.

2,426 lbs YTD + 81 Monday + 55 Thursday = 2,562

On Monday afternoon 430pm I will pick peas and maters and eggplants.

Aint God good!
cw

 

Victory Garden status Thursday July 5, 2012

Victory Garden status Thursday July 5, 2012

Another Great Week in the Victory Garden. 

Pictures show what I picked this morning except for the peas and shows one row just inside the gate which has basil, eggplants, mid-season maters, and cantaloupes.

2,375 lbs YTD + 51 Thursday  = 2,426 lbs YTD.

This morning I picked 48 lbs maters which included 3 eggplant fruit and 1 cuke plus 3 lbs peas which I took to th3 Collierville Food Pantry. Also did some weeding. Constant battle with a few instances of pigweed, goosegrass, and bermudagrass, but the mulch controls 90+% of the weeds and helps hold moisture.

Laura took zinnias to 18 rooms at Baptist Trinity Hospice.

Whit mowed and edges etc and garden looks very nice!

I water with the sprinklers about every 3 days.

No work to do this Monday except I will pick any maters and peas that are ready, and same for next Thursday morning. Peas are sloooooooow due to the drought. 

Aint God good!

cw

Victory Garden status Monday July 2, 2012

Another Great Week in the Victory Garden. 

First let me wish everyone a Very Wonderful Fourth of July!!!! 

Thank God for a blessed nation of free people.

This morning I picked 38 lbs maters, 1 lb cukes, a couple of handsful of jalapeno peppers, and 6 lbs peas which I took to Mr/Mrs Dodson in Sunflower Cv south of the tracks. They are elderly and he is on dialysis.

Please keep Les and Peggy Risner, fellow Victory Garden volunteers, in your prayers. They were in a bad car wreck last Wednesday and are still in the Med. He has been released but is staying with her. Hopefully she can go home this week.

I water about every three days, and Whit does the mowing and weeding.

Laura is cutting and taking flowers to each room at Baptist Trinity Health Care.

2,330 lbs YTD + 45 Monday  = 2,375 lbs YTD. 

Only work needed now is keep random weeds pulled, keep the garden watered and mowed, and harvest whatever is ready. Hopefully we will have lots of peas to pick purty soon. We have two green but grown cantaloupes, and both black and white eggplants ready for Thursday morning when I pick peas again.

Aint God Good!!!

cw