Victory Garden status Thursday Aug 29 next work Monday Sep 02 730am

WOW what an exciting and eclectic day in the Victory Garden this morning August 29 2013 in the cool of the morning. 

Sue, Arlene, and I picked 58 lbs of pole beans, purplehull peas, crowder peas, one aigplant, cucumbumbers, maters, jalapenyo and bell peppers, and yes believe it or not: asparagus and turnip greens. Go figger. We also pulled two cantaloupes but they had holes in'em so's we had to discard'em. 

We took all the produce to the Food Pantry. We coulda picked another 4 or more bushels of turnip greens but we ran out of time and buckets and backs.

 

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,424 lbs YTD + 58 lbs = 1,482 lbs new YTD.

Next work day is 0730am Monday morning to do some of the to-do list below. RSVP to me if you can be there. I know it's a holiday.

To do list:

1. Water everything every two days this week.

2. Layoff and plant plot 5 (middle right) turnip greens.

3. Harvest Thursday pole beans, bell peppers, jalapenos, aigplants, cantaloupes, cukes, maters, and GREENS (thin by 50 percent).

4. Pull pea vines out of plot 2 (middle left), then lay it off and plant more greens.

5. Clean out and plant plot 6 per Selby and Jan's instructions.

A good garden quote:

"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."  ~ Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Finance report:

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Victory Garden status Monday Aug 26 next work Thursday Aug 29 730am

Our late summer chores are under way, a little early. The Farmers Almanac is forecasting an early, cold, wet winter.

Leah Mire watered the garden every couple of days including today.

I mowed on Sunday, and I picked 16 lbs of maters Satiddy and took to the Emmons, an elderly couple who can no longer garden.

Today Leah and I picked 38 lbs of beautiful maters, cukes, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, a cantaloupe, pole beans, and purple hull peas, which I delivered to 209 Friendship CV off Haley St south of the tracks.

Connie cut and took bouquets of zinnias today to Page Robbins and Dove Rehab and to the VA PTSD unit last week.

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,370 lbs YTD + 16 + 38 lbs = 1,424 lbs new YTD.

To do list:

1. Water everything every two days this week.

2. Layoff and plant plot 5 (middle right) turnip greens.

3. Harvest Thursday pole beans, bell peppers, jalapenos, aigplants, cantaloupes, cukes, maters, and GREENS (thin by 50 percent).

4. Pull pea vines out of plot 2 (middle left), then lay it off and plant more greens.

5. Clean out and plant plot 6 per Selby and Jan's instructions.

Finance report:

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Victory Garden status Thursday Aug 22 2013 next work day 730am Satiddy

WOW what a wonderful week in the garden. 

Tuesday and Thursday Leah Mire watered the garden.

Wednesday Whit fixed the tiller and tilled plot 5 and the bare half of plot 3.

Wednesday Patree picked 10 lbs produce and took to the Food Pantry Thursday morning.

Plan is to plant greens in plot 5 Satiddy morning 730 and move the last pea vines to the dumpster and water the garden.

Nice article in the Herald this week about the good work done with the cut zinnias.

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,360 lbs YTD + 10 lbs = 1,370 lbs new YTD.

Finance report:

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Carls elephant ears at home in Dragonville on Snappin Turtle Farm

Giant Thai elephant ears bought at Master Gardener Spring Fling for $4 each sposed to reach 6 feets and has lots of summer left to do so....

Victory Garden status Monday Aug 19 2013 AM next work day Monday afternoon 430 and Thursday morning 730am

WOW what a wonderful productive day and all last week in the garden. 

Satiddy Whit, Wes, Adam, Sue, Val and I finished pulling the pea vines and cleaning up those plots. We picked a few lbs of maters and cucumbers and purple hurl peese. 

I put weed killer on the Peterson Lake zinnia patch. Sposed to not harm ornamentals and I did not spray on the flowers.

Today Cason the Master Gardener scholarship recipient continued his required volunteer hours by weeding plot 3 and raking and forking plot 4 so's we can plant greens this afternoon.

And Patree, Val, and I picked 42 lbs cukes, maters, pole beans, and purple hurl peese which Patree distributed along South St. We planted the skips in the mustard greens, stirred the soil with the small fork, and watered the greens.

Whit will try to get the baseball field tiller going today so we can lay off the rows this afternoon in plot 5 to plant more greens.

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,318 lbs YTD + 42 lbs = 1,360 lbs new YTD.

Finance report:

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

We have lemon cucumbumbers, ornamental gourds, Minnesota midget cantaloupes, watermelons, crowder peese, purple hurl peese, aigplants, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, basils, purple top turnips, and curly leaf mustard growing for even more harvest! Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ain't God good.
cw

pea patch readdy to plant peas

compost pile

pole bean trellis

victory garden

0817 2013 42 lbs

peterson lake rd zinnias

zinnias so purty

Victory Garden status Friday Aug 16 2013 next work day Satiddy 0730am and Monday 730am

Oops previous post sposed to be dated Aug 12 not Aug 1.

We've had a good week. 

We will work again Satiddy morning Aug 17 0730am and again on Monday morning 0730am. We need to clean out and prepare plots 5 and 6 for planting more fall garden.

Tuesday The Master Gardener scholarship recipient did 2 of his 8 required volunteer hours cleaning pea vines out of plot 5. I picked 3 lbs peas.

Wednesday Whit mowed and trimmed.

Thursday Patree, Arlene, and I picked 24 lbs of veggies and 7 lbs of peas for total of 31 lbs which Patree took to the Food Pantry along with Monday's harvest.

Thursday Leah continued cleaning out plot 5.

Friday I picked 4 more lbs of maters and per request from the Food Pantry retrieved most of our stuff and other leftovers and delivered along Shotgun Row on South St. FP lady said they had a small crowd this week. Clients are not allowed to come every week.

 

  

Cut flower report:

Connie took a zinnia bouquet to the library, to Page Robbins, and to the West Clinic chemo lab where she is receiving treatment. Laura takes to each room at Baptist Trinity Hospice each week.

 

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,280 lbs YTD + 3 + 31 + 4 lbs = 1,318 lbs new YTD.

Finance report:

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

I am getting excited about planting our fall garden. One weather prgonosticator predicts an early cold wet winter. And there is a 50-50 chance the weather will be above or below normal.

Ain't God good.
cw

Tuesday

Cason

Thursday

Friday delivery

Victory Garden status Monday Aug 12 2013 next work day Thursday 07am

Many hands make little work. Five of us enjoyed a bountiful harvest this morning and over the last few days. It was good exercize and a good sweat.

We will pick again Thursday morning Aug 15 7am.

Last Friday Sharelle and her children picked 35 lbs of purplehull peas.

Selby and Jan picked from the experimental plot 63 lbs of round lemon cukes, 5 lbs of long red beans, and 6 lbs green beans.

This morning Selby, Arlene, Val, and Patree, and I picked 78 lbs of pole beans, purplehull peas, maters, and cucumbumbers. Patree took the peas and beans to Page Robbins. I took the cukes to the Food Pantry front porch, and have the cukes and maters in my garage for Thursday morning delivery to the Food Pantry.

Peas and beans need picked every 3 or 4 days, and garden external area needs mowing!!!

  

Cut flower report:

Connie took a zinnia bouquet to the library, to Page Robbins, and to the West Clinic chemo lab where she is receiving treatment. Laura takes to each room at Baptist Trinity Hospice each week.

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,093 lbs YTD + 187 lbs = 1,280 lbs new YTD.

Finance report:

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

I am meeting with one of the Master Gardener college scholarship recipients 0830 Tuesday morning. He, and another, must do some number of volunteer hours as part of the deal. We need plot 5 cleared out for fall planting and the compost pile turned.

I bleeve next year we should plant half as many pea vines in the same space. 

Ain't God good.
cw

Victory Garden status Thursday Aug 8 2013

It was a hot muggy lonely morning in the garden as again this Thursday I was the only one who showed up. Clearly something has to change.

I picked 45 lbs and took to the Food Pantry. I worked until I could not bend over any more. Such comes with age and weight.

There are at least 5 or 6 bushels of purplehull peas going to waste.

Connie Bogema took bouquet to the library and the literacy council and Page Robbins and Laura Ruth takes to every room at Baptist Trinity Hospice each week.

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,048 lbs YTD + 45 lbs = 1,093 lbs new YTD.

Finance report:

Expenses 46.41.

Prior balance as of 6/24/2013: 830.11

- Expenses this period supplies 46-41

New balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

Ain't God good.
cw

Victory Garden status Monday Aug 5 2013 Next work day Thursday 730AM pick peas

What a beautiful cool morning and wonderful light rain growing more peas and beans and maters.

Val, Les, and I picked two and a half bushels of gorgeous purple hull peas (57 lbs). I took half to Ms Julia Ferguson in Harris CV south of the tracks. She is a Food Pantry client and shares with her fellow elderly neighbors.

Other half I took to Page Robbins along with bouquet of zinnias and all proceeds from our garlic sales $246. They were happy.

Harvest total 2013 to date:
991 lbs YTD + 57 lbs = 1,048 lbs new YTD.

Last Satiddy morning I mowed and worked on cleaning up the entrance dirt pile and picked some peas and took'em home to shell and eat as a quality control process.

See you Thursday morning 0730 to pick peas again.

Ain't God good.
cw

Victory Garden status Aug 1 2013 next work Monday Aug 5 430-6pm

What a beautiful day to work in the garden. Nice breeze. Wonderful rain yestiddy. Yet my feet were clean when I finished as we have NO MUD due to our diligent mulching.

The sad news is my back gave out before I finished picking the purple hull peas. I picked the far right plot (#4).

CAN SOMEONE GO PICK THE MIDDLE RIGHT PLOT (#5) today and take them to Page Robbins???? Let me know the weight; scales are in our wooden bin.

I obliterated the remaining dirt pile, as requested, and picked 12 lbs peas and beans (about a bushel) and 13 lbs of peppers, basil, maters,  cucumbumbers. There should have been a lot of ripe maters (about a peck). ???

I took it all to the Food Pantry.

Harvest report 2013 to date:
966 lbs + 25 = 991 lbs Yea!!!!

We have a good stand of the mustard greens and turnip greens seeds we planted on Monday. We have a couple of watermelons and a few cantaloupes almost ripe.

Next work session is Monday Aug 5 430-6pm in the afternoon.

See pix below.

Ain't God good!

Pole beans easy to pick under the trellis

Food pantry

greens seeds sprouted

08/01/13 harvest 25 lbs

one of our verdant trellis made form two $20 cattle panels