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
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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