Victory Garden end of 2012 6,021 pounds

Wednesday December 19, 2012 we had another wonderful harvest from the Victory Garden.

Addition Friday 12/22/2012:
Carl picked 3 bags of kale, 4 bags of turnip greens, and 5 small and 1 large cabbage, and delivered them and 4 bushels of cabbage scrap leaves to a large family who raises chickens. Other than the scraps that added 20 pounds to our 2012 total.

AND  Victory Garden is in Horticulture Magazine online edition of Gardens On the Go:
http://issuu.com/horticulture/docs/gardenersonthegowinter2012

Leah and Anthony Mire, Karen and David and Cody Cichocki and her MIL, and I picked 127 lbs of cabbages and 84 lbs of turnips and greens and took them to the Collierville Food Pantry along with the cabbages and turnips from Germantown church of Christ. See pictures below.

Actually we picked 80 lbs of turnips and realized that left us with 5,997 for 2012 so we picked 4 more pounds to get past the three ton mark of His blessings for His needy people.

5,790 + 84 + 127  + 20 = 6,021 year to date lbs!!!! WOW, and plenty of turnip greens left to pick. 
Any ideas on that?

Next we need to spread straw on all bare ground and especially around the new garlic and onyuns where henbit is proliferating.

Here's wishing you and yours a Very Merry Christmas and a Safe and Prosperous and Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas!

Picking turnips.

David and Anthony and Cody pulled a few carrots to eat!

Church and Victory Garden haul headed to Collierville Food Pantry

Oakley Pendragon is a gnome who lives in this tree and guards the church garden.

Ain't God good!
cw

VG status and next work day 4pm Wednesday Dec 19

Next work day is 4pm until dark on Wednesday December 19.

We will, Lord willing, harvest the Savoy cabbages and turnip greens to take to the Collierville Food Pantry on Thursday morning - their last big distribution day before Christmas.

Quite a bit has been going on:

Katherine Green cleaned up and mulched the south half of plot 1.
I planted 22 elephant garlic cloves in the south demo garden raised bed.
Jes Crownover is creating us a new up to date PowerPoint presentation.
Bob, Sue & her mother, and I set out 300 onion sets.

Next chores beside the December 19 harvest are:
  1. Spread straw around the new onions.
  2. Spread straw on plots 3 and 5 whence we will harvest the cabbages and turnips.

Field trials results of the Carbon Boost-S product FBSciences.com donates to us.

http://precisiontillage.com/page/1?cat=3%2C9

According to the MAMG treasurer Tom Mashour, our fund now has $935.40 after the latest donation by Farmington Presbyterian Church of $347.00. Lord willing, 2013 is taken care of plus some.

This week's quotes:

"The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves." 

- Bill Mollison

"Have your good acts during the year overbalanced the bad? Have you made more people happy than unhappy? Have you spoken more kind words than unkind? Have you helped others more than you have been helped? And has the world been made any better because you have lived in it? There is no shorter road to happiness than that which leads us to make those around us happier." –The Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1895

Ain't God good!

cw