Victory Garden Satiddy Sep 28 2013, Next work day Monday 8am pick greens

WOW Another beautiful morning in the garden. We have sowed the seeds and now waiting on the Good Lord to give the increase.

Bari and Jane and I finished the fall planting with new hills in plot 6 planted in kale, collards, and purple top turnip greens. We also put down more cardboard on the bermudagrass patches in the walking paths. And we moved all the piles of organic material to the compost pile.

We harvested 3 lbs of maters and watermelons, and gave them to an elderly retired Master Gardener dentist with heart trouble who can now only work in flowers.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  2,046 TD + 3 lbs = 2,049 lbs new YTD. OVER a ton!  

Monday morning 8am, Lord willing, we will harvest turnip greens.

 

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 09/12/2013 $662.26.

Ain't God good.

cw

Jane and Bari planting greens plot 6!

Victory Garden Thursday Sep 26 2013, Next work day Satiddy 8am plant plot 6 Monday 8am pick greens

Another beautiful morning. ALL the seeds have sprouted. Oh me of little faith!

Cathy Robinson and I did some weeding and harvesting and spreading cardboard (we both brought a stack) where there is grass in the walkways.

We harvested 18 lbs of maters, jalapenyo peppers, bellpeppers, aigplants, a watermelon, and 56 lbs of mustard greens and turnip greens.

She took 10 lbs to a needy family and I took the rest to the Food Pantry.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  1,982 TD + 64 lbs = 2,046 lbs new YTD. OVER a ton!  

Saturday morning 8am, Lord willing, we will hill up and plant plot 6 (BIG THANKS to WHIT for preparing that plot), and put the weed piles in the dumpster.

We will pick greens, Lord willing, on Monday morning 8am.

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 09/12/2013 $662.26.

Ain't God good.

cw

Beautiful living soil plot 6 reddy to plant

18 lbs misc

bountiful harvest

gorgeous flowers

Food Pantry

Plot 3 cabbiges and hills and mulch

Victory Garden Monday Sep 23 2013, Next work day Thursday 8am puck greens

Val, Vicky, and I had  a beautiful cool morning to do the Lord's work. Ain't this extry hour of sunshine sooooo good!

I gleaned bags of grass clippings from curbside, and we mulched all of plot 3. We also weeded the volunteer pea sprouts and monocots from amongst the cabbiges and new greens. 

We pulled most of the vines out of plot 6, ran the weedeater and have it ready for Whit to prepare the planting beds. And we laid more cardboard between the new raised wooden beds. We need quite a bit more cardboard to finish.

We also picked several odds and ends and 46 lbs of watermelons which I took to Ms Julia Ferguson on Harris Cv south of the tracks.

Connie Bogema picked the last zinnias from the Peterson Lake Rd bed and took to the Library which posted a beautiful picture of them on they Facebook page. Laura Ruth takes to the Hospice each week. 

Contact Stephanie this week if you want a Victory Garden tee shirt. See that email for details.

We will pick greens, Lord willing, on Thursday morning and take the trash piles to the dumpster.

We need to find another Eagle Scout candidate project. Candidate Jason Friend could not get another set of raised beds approved since it is too similar to the last project for us in the troop.

 Harvest total 2013 to date:

  1,936 YTD + 46 lbs = 1,982 lbs new YTD. Almost a ton! 

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 09/12/2013 $662.26.

Ain't God good.

cw

delivery melons to Ms Julia

46 lbs watermelons in Opie ready to go

beautiful north side looking cross the north side cabbiges

  

Val and Vicky mulching and working hard!!!

Our Gorgeous zinnias at the library!!!

south side looking cross the north side cabbiges

Connie cutting zinnias and making a beautiful bouquet, Love that hat, too!

Victory Garden Thursday Sep 19 2013, Next work day Monday 8am

I enjoyed harvesting the bounty of the garden in the cool of the morning and seeing the promise of much more to come.

I picked today Thursday September 19 2013 and took to the food pantry 116 lbs of watermelons, aigplants, aspergrass, maters, jalapenyo peppers, bell peppers, pease, mustard greens, and turnip greens.

Harvest total 2013 to date:  1,820 YTD + 116 lbs = 1,936 lbs new YTD. Almost a ton! Finance report:  Balance as of 09/12/2013 $662.26.

Next work date is 8am next Monday Sep 23. RSVP!
We need to gather OM and put in the middles between all the planted rows!
Lord willing, we can finish cleaning and planting plot 6 which will finish planting the fall garden.
   
Ain't God good.cw

100 lbs for food pantry

plus 16 lbs greens for the food pantry

food pantry

south side planted green growing in beautiful living soil

Victory Garden Satiddy Sep 14 2013, Next work day Thursday 8am

"O what a beautiful morning, O what a beautiful day..." 

59 degrees and sunny! Who could ask for anything more.

Adam, Emily, Jerry, Sue, and I:

    Planted the skips in the turnip patches.

    Prepared the beds and planted the rest of plot and 2/3rds of the two front raised beds with kale (3 varieties), collards, rutabagas, and spinnich. 

    Watered ever thang and sprayed the greens,

    Cleaned out plot 6 as best we could without disturbing the ripening watermelons.

Connie cut zinnias this morning to take to first responder stations in honor of 9/11. She is amazing to do all this angel work while receiving her own treatments at West Clinic.

Ever week Laura takes 15 to 20 vases of zinnias to the hospice and a couple of other well deserved places. What a beautiful good deed!

Next work date is 8am next Thursday Sep 19.

We will harvest mustard and turnip greens.

We need to gather OM and put in the middles between all the planted rows!

Lord willing, we can finish cleaning and planting plot 6 next Satiddy morning 8am which will finish planting the fall garden.   Yah!!!!!!!!!!

Ain't God good.

cw

Adam, Emily, Jerry, Sue

Beautiful worm-filled soil in deep loose beds

Victory Garden Thursday Sep 12 2013, Next work days Satiddy and Monday 730am

We could not have picked a more beautiful day to work in the Victory Garden.

Whit, Patree and I had a good day. We picked and took to the Food Pantry 199 lbs of fresh produce, 167 lbs of which were watermelons from Selby's and Jan's patch (plot 6). There are several more large watermelons almost but not quite ripe.

We picked an aig plant, watermelons, a few pole beans, maters, bell peppers, basil, turnip greens, mustard greens, and jalapenyo peppers.

We had a nice rain yesterday, but the new cabbige sets and seeds and sprouts need to stay damp so they need a light watering most days. 

Whit prepared plot 3 for planting this Satiddy morning.

We are trying something I learned from my friend Vernon this week. Carrots are difficult to sprout, so we followed his lead and covered our carrot seed beds with damp brown paper. They will need to be checked daily and the paper removed when they sprout.

 

THIS SATURDAY MORNING, Lord willing, we will continue planting the fall garden:

1. Clean out plot 6 and harvest any watermelons which are reddy.

2. Prepare plot 3 bed and plant kale, onions, and rutabagas or collards.

3. Clean out back(west) end of the two front beds and plant something - maybe carrots. Leave the two mater vines on they east ends which are still producing.

4. Continue gathering bags of grass clippings and mulch all bare ground.

6. Watch for insect damage and remedy as needed. 

7. Remove the weeds and pea vines to the dumpster.

 

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  1,621 YTD + 199 lbs = 1,820 lbs new YTD.

 

Finance report: 

Balance as of 8/08/2013:     783.70.Expenses supplies Aug/Sep 121.44 submitted Sep 12, 2013New balance                       662.26  new balance as of 09/12/2013

Ain't God good.cw

headed to the Food Pantry

Whit and Patree working hard picking greens

Victory Garden status Monday Sep 9 2013, Next work days Thursday and Satiddy 730am

Another pleasant day to work in the Victory Garden. 

Whit, Arlene, Stephanie, and I got  a lot done. 

We gathered 12 lbs fresh delightful produce: maters, cukes, beans, peas, bell peppers, jalapenjos.

We watered ever thang.

We spread all the mulch we had leaving only plot 2 left to do.

We pulled the pea vines outa plot 3. 

Whit will prepare that bed for us to plant kale.

 

The whole garden needs watering every other day for a while.

We need a volunteer for Wednesday and Friday lessen it rains.

 

We have one more big push THIS SATURDAY MORNING to finish planting the fall garden:

1. Clean out plot 6 and harvest any watermelons which are reddy.

2. Prepare plot 3 bed and plant kale, onions, and rutabagas.

3. Clean out back(west) end of the two front beds and plant something: maybe carrots. Leave the two mater vines on they east ends which are still producing.

4. Continue gathering bags of grass clippings and mulch all bare ground.

 

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  1,609 YTD + 12 lbs = 1,621 lbs new YTD.

Next work day is 0730am Thursday morning to harvest greens.

And Satiddy we will clean out and plant plot 6. 

RSVP to me if you can be there either or both times.  

Finance report: 

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Arlene watering cabbige patch 1

12 lbs of Joy

South side almost done for the fall

Whit and Stephanie pull the last pea vines. Yea!!!!!

Victory Garden status Satiddy Sep 7 3013, Next work Monday Sep 9 730am

We enjoyed an awesome day in the Victory Garden. Val, Sue, Jane, Adam, and I got  a lot done. The weather was beautiful, sunny, and pleasant. The soil was beautiful and perfect for planting. Our plans were well made and executed  with glee, joy, and friendly conversation. 

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. ~John Donne

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze. ~Emily Dickinson

We pulled all the bug-damaged greens leaves, planted the skips, and planted plots 2 and 5 in turnip greens and one row of Nantes carrots in plot 4. Every row got hilled up, sprinkled with Osmocote, dribbled with a diluted elizir of Bonnie organic liquid fertilizer, seeds judiciously and carefully scattered therein and walked on, and a thorough water soaking. Last thang is I prayed over each patch then went home for my Satiddy bath - another thorough water soaking.

Yes, I fess up; we put Sevin on the greens as they is gittin et up. We claim to be sustainable, not organic.

See pix below of this mornin and my back yard a.k.a Snappin Turtle Farm.

The whole garden needs watering every other day for a while. I will water on Monday.

We now have carrots, mustard greens, turnip greens,  and cabbiges. The peppers and maters are still producing. We pulled one Minnesota midget cantaloupe which was as big as a ordinary variety. Go figger. Our crop of decorative gourds is about reddy to pull. Any idee what to do with'em? We have one turnip about twicet as big as a bobbin.

We have one more big push to finish planting the fall garden:

1. Pull crowder pea vines from north side of plot 3.

2. Prepare that bed and plant kale, onions, and rutabagas in plot 3.

3. Clean out back(west) end of the two front beds and plant something: maybe carrots. Leave the two mater vines on east ends which are still producing.

4. Mulch all of the greens and cabbige patches (no bare ground philosophy). I will continue to slink around town after dark and glean bags of grass clippings for our use.

The cantaloupe and two lbs of maters yestiddy was our harvest.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  1,606 YTD + 3 lbs = 1,609 lbs new YTD.

Next work day is 0730am Monday morning to work in the to-do list above. 

RSVP to me if you can be there.  

Finance report: 

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Adam, Jane, Sue plot 2 greens patch 4 (aint that soil beautiful)

Greens and carrots and newly planted skips plot 4 patch 2

Plot 5 greens patch 3 cabbige patch 2

Greens patch 1 plot 1 alreddy picked 6 bushels, 

Elefunt ear 4 blooms one plant in my back yard

6 1/2 foot elefunt ears my backyard Snappin Turtle Farms

Snappin Turtle Farm fall planting done mustard and turnip and mesclun and spinach and arugula greens (my backyard)

Victory Garden status Thursday Sep 5, next work Satidday Sep 07 8am

It was  beautiful sunny but cool morning in the Victory Garden.

Patree and me (that rhymes) picked 42 lbs of maters, bell peppers, jalopenyo peppers, an aigplant, pole beans, one cucumbumber, mustard greens, turnip greens, and crowder peas which she took to the Collierville Food Pantry.

Whit mowed and prepared plot 2 for Satiddy morning planting!!!!

 

I watered and sprayed our beautiful 156 new cabbige sets which have overcome transplant shock and are standing at attention in the warm sunshine doing photosynthesis.

 

 

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,564 lbs YTD + 42 lbs = 1,606 lbs new YTD.

Next work day is 0730am Satiddy morning to do some of the to-do list below. RSVP to me if you can be there.  

To do list:

1. Pull pea vines out of plot 3.

2. Layoff and plant plots 2 and 5 (middle plots) turnip greens.

3. Plant skips in the existing greens patches.

Finance report: 

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Victory Garden status Monday Sep 2 next work Thursday Sep 05 730am

WOW A wonderful flight of volunteer angels got a ton of work and fellowship done this morning. Bari, Jane, Sherry, Sue, Jerry, Wes, Chris, Mark, and I worked hard and got'er done. 

Whit and Jan will follow up and mow and prepare plot 2 for planting more greens.

 

Sue and Jerry planted two flats of Bonnie Hybrid cabbages and one flat of Savoy cabbages donates by LES BRANNUM of BONNIE PLANTS. Bless his good heart!!!!

We pulled pea vines and put in dumpster, harvested Kentucky wonder pole beans and crowder peas and blackeyed peas and okra and red Chinese beans and slicer cucumbumbers and lemon cucumbumbers and jalapenyo peppers and maters and Minnesota midget cantaloupes and turnip greens for a total of 82 lbs.

 

I took the produce to shotgun houses on South Street. 

And I sprayed the greens.

 

this is why we do this

82 lbs of God's blessings

beautiful harvest

Harvest total 2013 to date:
1,482 lbs YTD + 82 lbs = 1,564 lbs new YTD.

Next work day is 0730am Thursday morning to do some of the to-do list below. RSVP to me if you can be there.  

To do list:

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

2. Layoff and plant plots 2 and 5 (middle plots) turnip greens.

Finance report: 

Balance as of 8/08/2013:   783.70.

 

Ain't God good.
cw

Bari picking pole beans

Chris picking

Sherry and Jane picking greens

Sue and Jerry planting cabbages

one cabbage patch

verdant beauty

more beauty

Wes pulling packing and porting pea vines