Victory Garden status Oct 25 2012

Victory Garden status Oct 25 2012

WOW! What a week! 

We finished harvesting all the rest of the mustard greens and all the rest of the turnips and turnip greens in plot 2, which is not ready to hill up and plant garlic. We began the first thinning of the plot 6 turnip patch. Plot 5 turnip patch is in the seedling stage.

Monday Patree, Selby, Sue, Leah, and I picked 13 big plastic yard bags of turnips and turnip greens and three bags of mustard greens.Patree and Selby took their cars crammed full to the Memphis Food Bank (total 340 lbs.) I took the mustard greens (total 15 lbs) to some elderly ladies on South St. Additionally, Sue and Leah thinned the diakon reddishes and cleaned up the last few mater vines.  

Today Thursday Patree, Twila, Sue, Selby, In Sung, and I picked the last turnips in plot 2 and the last mustard greens and a few odds and ends and thinned the first two rows on plot 6 the second turnip patch. The Memphis Food Bank Truck picked up 19 plastic yard bags total weight 404 lbs. Patree took 52 lbs of the new thinned turnip greens and some odds and ends and took to the Collierville Food Pantry. And they cleaned out the raised beds where the mustard was.
 
4,230 + 340 + 15 + 404 + 52  = 5,041 year to date lbs!!!!!  YA!!!!! A new record for us! 

I will be working with a scout on Saturday morning. He needs to get 8 volunteer hours, We will do some cleanup and forking and hilling in preparation for garlic planting which Dave Fitzgerald and organize and lead ASAP.

Next scheduled work day is next Thursday morning 730-900am.

Aint God good!
Carl Wayne Hardeman 485-6910

in sung and patree

mustard greens

sue, selby, and twila

finishing the mustard greens - their 5th picking

getting last from plot 2 the first turnip patch

patree, in sung, sue, and 3 turnips

third turnip patch

19 bags for MFB 

plot 6 second turnip patch ready to thin

Victory Garden Oct 18, 2012 Next work day Monday

Victory Garden status Oct 18 2012

Nice crisp wet morning after big rain but our lovely garden is not muddy - just spongy.

Jan Dickey and I picked 89 lbs this morning of pak choy, turnips and turnip greens, mustard greens, peppers, green maters, and aig plants, and took them to the Food Pantry. See pix below.
 
4,141 + 89  = 4,230 year to date lbs!!!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Tentative plans are for a big turnip picking party 8-10am Monday morning. We will pull all turnips in plot 2 and meet the Memphis Food Bank truck at the garden, Lord willing.

I will email again as soon as I get a confirmation,

I NEED RSVP from you if you plan to join the fun!
Aint God good!
Carl Wayne Hardeman 485-6910

cabbages

Family size turnip and we have lots of'em

Jan picking  mustard greens

walking onions

Savoy vey cabbage

gigantic Bonnie dutch cabbge

beautiful bounty

awesome flowers

flowers still beautiful

a happy customer

one of our kale plots on Peterson Lake Rd

Victory Garden status Oct 15 2012

Aint this weather and garden bounty beautiful?

Me and Twila and Matt Baker pulled 8 bushels 142 lbs of turnips and greens and 24 lbs green maters which I took to various elderly people along Harris St.

There are at least 20-30 more bushels of turnips and turnip greens and 4-6 bushels of mustard greens which all need picking.

3,975 + 166  = 4,141 year to date lbs!!!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! OVER TWO TONS!!!!

Some angel had finished pulling the weeds out of plot 1. BIG THANKS! Besides helping with the harvest Matt put all the weed piles onto the compost pile spread the pile of bags of grass clippings into the middles of plots 1 and 6. Good job: Matt!

I will pick Thursday morning 715-815am for the Food Pantry.

Sure wish some angels would pick a car or truck load of the rest of the mature greens and take to the Memphis Food Bank! New box of plastic bags in the storage bin.

Aint God good!
Carl Wayne Hardeman 485-6910

Victory Garden Status October 11, 2012

WOW! Another AMAZING week in the Collierville Victory Garden. We once more have made a lot of progress and have been blessed with a bountiful harvest for the Collierville Food Pantry.

On Monday Oct 8, Jan, Leah and Anthony, Selby and Sammy and Jesslyn(sp?), and I cleaned out half of the last plot (number 1) and planted 4 rows of daikon reddishes and 2 rows of collard greens. We also cleaned out 2 of the raised beds and planted them with rutabagas. Then we planted plot 5 as our late (third) turnip green plot. Thus we have most of the winter garden planted. The children were very well behaved and actually did help. Hershel had brought a truck load of bags of grass clippings. We used some of them to mulch the new reddishes and collards.

Today Thursday Oct 11, I watered the new seed beds and picked 3 bushels of mustard greens, three bushels of turnips and turnip greens, plus an assortment of aigplants, onions, jalapeno peppers, pak choy, and maters. Total 53 lbs which I took to the Food Pantry.

 

3,922 + 53  = 3,975 year to date lbs!!!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost 2 tons: 4,000 lbs!

Monday 430-6pm we will pick the remaining mustard and most of plot 2 of the early turnips and replant that area with something.

Aint God good!

turnips and greens 

beautiful cabbages

picking mustard greens

mustard greens, aigplants, onions, peppers, maters, and pak choy

wow! what a turnip!!!

Victory Garden status Thursday Oct 4, 2012

WOW! An awesome week in the Victory Garden. Cool weather and several volunteer angels made the work easy and fun. See pix below.

Last Thursday September 27 Leah Mire picked total of 7 lbs of greens which I took to an elderly lady at 200 South Street.

This morning Thursday October 4, Patree, Twila, In Sun, and I picked 146 lbs of mustard greens, maters, eggplants, and a few more sweet taters, which Patree took to the Collierville Food Pantry.

We only picked half the mustard greens, since that was all the Food Pantry can give out at one time. Note this is the fourth weekly picking of those same mustard greens. This time In Sung used his hand scythe and made quick work of the leaf cutting.

Volunteers can go get the other two rows of mustard greens any time and I will pick them up and deliver them.

3,769 + 7 + 146  = 3,922 year to date lbs!!!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost 2 tons: 4,000 lbs!

The town tilled and mulched the zinnia beds, and I spread Osmocote and kale seeds therein. Now hoping for enough warmth and sunshine to make a crop for the Food Pantry.

Next work day is Monday Oct 8 430-600pm. Plan to finish cleaning out plot 1 (far left corner) and plant  rutabagas to harvest mid winter. 

After the Master Gardener books were audited, it was determined we had a balance of $689.99. We had another nice donation of $50 and spent this fall $151.59 for supplies leaving us with a nice balance of $588.40, which should take care of most of next year. We will be buying fertilizer and landscape fabric in a few weeks to plant garlic.

Excellent garden critter control website: http://icwdm.org/

146 lbs maters eggplants sweet taters mustard greens

Panorama

cabbages

harvesting mustard greens 4th picking of same greens in 4 weeks

In Sung makes short work with his hand scythe!

new turnip greens patch

old trunip green patch making turnips

This would make a good demo project:

Aint God good!!!