Victory Garden status Satiddy November 30, 2013 Garlic Party

True to southern tradition we planted spring bulks (garlic) the Satiddy after Thanksgiving.

Led by Master Garlic-er Dave Fitzgerald and sons Conor and Aidan, Val, Arlene, Jimmy and I planted 6 varieties of garlic. We planted plot 6 3 cloves wide in four 32 foot rows and ten inches apart and planted 33 elephant garlic in the middle raised bed in plot 4. We expect no vampires again this winter.

Then we put them to bed for the winter with a nice cover of leaves. We also finished mulching plots 2 and 5 with cardboard (thanks Patree) and bags of leaves and grass clippings. 

We plan, Lord willing, to pick the rest of the collards, rutabagas, and cabbiges for the Collierville Food Pantry the last Thursday before Christmas December 19.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

   4,430 lbs for 2013!   

 

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 11/12/2013 $576.05

I am thinking per advice and demonstration by MAMG PAR garden at Davies Plantation (Diane Parks and GA Crosby) to do plots 2 and 4 (te middle two) with cinder blocks. Costs about half as much as treated wood. 

Also thinking about getting 3 hose reels and new hoses (non kink kind) and three new sprinklers. We have enough funds.

As always your advice is needed and much appreciated.

Thanks,

cw

In these pix note our beautiful rich loose humus soil.

Arlene hard at work (see the beautiful soil)

Conor and Aiden and Dave admiring the newly planted and mulched garlic beds

Jimmy and Val hard at work too

Beautiful garden still has carrots turnips cabbiges parsley rutabagas and collards

Val and Jimmy and Dave and Arlene working and me taking pix as usual

Victory Garden status Monday November 25, 2013

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Your volunteer work has paid out bountifully all year but especially this week. Val, Jane, Kathy, Arlene and I picked a pickup truck load of turnips and greens (266 lbs) and took to the Collierville Food Pantry on Thursday.

On Friday Stephanie, Matt, Ed, Ron, and Lisa McGee's Crosswinds Elementary School Roots and Shoots Club picked 645 lbs of turnips and greens and 42 lbs of mustard greens. This was two pickup truck loads which along with the pickup truck load from Germantown church of Christ were distributed in Thanksgiving distribution boxes for 250 families in the inner city. What a blessing we have!

Today Monday November 235, 2013, The Fayette Cares agency picked 34 lbs of collard greens and the last turnips 380 lbs. WOW! These will be distributed to needy families this week.

I plan, Lord willing, to pick the rest of the collards, rutabagas, and cabbiges for the Collierville Food Pantry the last Thursday before Christmas December 19.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  3,063 to date + 266 + 645 + 42 +34 + 380  = 4,430 lbs for 2013!  Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 11/12/2013 $576.05

A pome I wrote about picking greens and delivering boxes (actually they came to a church building and picked up the boxes but I dinna know that when I wrote da pome.)

It's beginning to look a lot like Thanksgiving With every turnip we pull;
Take a look in the muddy rows with greens all in rows
Green leaves and purple turnips all aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Thanksgiving, Turnips in every box,
But the prettiest sight to see smiling faces that will be at each front door.

 See pix below:

gorgeous turnips and greens

ed and matt bagging

266 lbs to Food Pantry

Crosswinds Roots & Shoots Club

fell off the turnip truck

arlene and val

Kathy and Jane

100 box giveaway in Raleigh

Food Pantry truck was emptied in 15 minutes

Raleigh distribution

midtown distribution 150 boxes

Victory Garden status 11/12/13 Next work day Thursday 11/21/13 7-830am

We had a wonderful opportunity in the garden. Patree, Stephanie, Val, and I picked 72 lbs of kale (3 varieties, 27 lbs curly leaf mustard, and 7 lbs of peppers and aigplants, which I took to Caritas Village http://caritasvillage.org/ , an intown community outreach project. 

This is my old teenage years neighborhood. I drove by the shotgun house where momma and us five kids lived at 2567 Tutwiler. My brother and I had a bunk bed in the enclosed back porch. Looks a lot better nowadays.

Caritas has a nice deli where street people and movers-and-shakers mingle. I had an excellent Greek salad, and a Memphis councilman was entertaining two Asian suits. You should try it and see the good work they are doing with children and the local people.

Whit did his usual beautiful work and mowed the garden.

Harvest total 2013 to date:

  2,957 to date + 106  = 3,063 lbs for 2013!  

 

Finance report:  

  Balance as of 11/12/2013 $576.05

cw
Ain't God good.