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