We made a big dent in what needs done.
Ya gotta see Dave's beautiful garlic, and Selby and Jan's exciting work in plot 6. Ya gotta see their tater towers. Angel all!
And our sweetpeas have sprouted and some taters have sprouted and a few asparagi have lifted they lovely stalks heavenward.
We had an Eagle Scout candidate look at putting raised wooden beds in plot 1, and hope to hear from him soon.
Martha Montesi of the Memphis Area Master Gardeners is writing a grant proposal to get us funding to make the whole garden into wooden beds, which at about $800 per plot is expensive, but grants are out there for the asking. If we do this, we need to rethink the entire layout and possibly make it more Zen and less orthogonal.
Two of our sister gardens (we advised on) are doing well and worth a visit: The YMCA community garden, and the Epiphany Lutheran garden on Wolf River Blvd in the last open land going west out of Collierville.
Any Master Gardener needing community hours or angels just wanting something to do, I will helping the Twentieth Century Club create a cut flower zinnia garden for Collierville High School and can use help.
Val, Wes, Whit & Jan, Bob, Sue, Kathy, Arlene, and I (garden angels all):
1. Repaired the fence.
2. Laid out four 4x8 new zinnia beds.
3. Almost completed mulching the cross paths till we ran out of cardboard and mulch.
4. Pulled two five gallon buckets of turnips to take to the Food Pantry on Thursday.
5. Did some much needed weeding.
6. Cleaned out and tilled plot 5 (had to till due to thigh high weeds.) Good news is got my tiller out of the shoppe yesterday and tilled plot 5. Bad news is the rope broke and still need to clean out and till plot 1 and the new zinnia beds, so back to the shoppe we go.
7. Hauled tub of water for plot 6 and watered the plants in the tops of the tater towers.
Mr. Norman Brown of E-Plex is donating 3 cubic yards of a rich garden mix today for us to put in the raised wooden beds when we harvest the onions and garlic. Another angel!
Les Branum of Bonnie Farms and Jan Dickey will be donating plants for the garden. More angels!
Patree made a very generous donation to the garden!!! I will report our financial status, which is very good now, in next report after I turn in receipts for reimbursement for some supplies for us and the Plants For Humanity adjunct. Donations are made to the Memphis Area Master Gardeners earmarked for the Collierville Victory Garden. It is tax deductible, and request a receipt! Yet another angel!
Next work day is this Saturday 830-1030 since I have a speaking engagement at 11am at the Collierville library.
Here's what we need done, and getting my tiller fixed is on what we statistical process control folks call the critical path.: (Feel free to tackle any of these at your convenience.)
1. Make plot 5 (middle right) into 5 hills with 1 foot middles, and plant corn there.
2. Weed all around all plots and any weeds in the plots.
3. Plant basil, marigolds, and sunflowers along the inner edges of all plots except plot 6.
4. Clean out (after using weedeater), till, hill up, and plant purple hull peas in plot 1, same 5 bed configuration.
5. Plant mater and pepper plants.
6. Prepare ground in the new zinnia beds and plant a few early ones.
Ain't God good!
Carl Wayne
om Mymaters to you
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