Another big CVG Harvest this week! And next week's planned work opportunities

This week's CVG Harvest Update = 159 lbs
YTD CVG Harvest Donation = 692 lbs

Next week's work opportunities:
Tuesday 1 July: 8 am - 10:30 am -- Pull corn stalks, plant crowder peas in plot 4, continue weeding, set up a bamboo teepee in plot 6, water raised beds and baled tomatoes, if needed
Tuesday 1 July: 5:30 pm  - 7 pm -- Assist Girl Scouts in weeding and harvesting zinnia beds, overseed corn rows and plant beets in plot 6, plant carrots, radishes, rutabagas in two northernmost beds in plot 1
Thursday 3 July : 8 am - 10 am -- Harvest for Collierville Food Pantry, continue weeding/garden maintenance, water if needed

On the morning of Tuesday 24 June, Patree, Amy, and Stephanie weeded plots 1, 3, 6 and the NE pole bean walkway... filling up 4 yard bags. Carl weedeater-ed the south walkways and between all the raised wooden beds in plots 1 and 4. He planted two rows of zipper cream peas in each of the southernmost raised beds in plot 1.

On Tuesday evening, Arlene, Judy, and Stephanie assisted Girl Scouts in harvesting 5 mason jars of beautiful CVG zinnias and sunflowers that were donated to Dove Rehabilitation Center and 21 lbs cukes, peppers, rattlesnake beans, green beans, tomatoes, okra, beets, and carrots.

On Wednesday Carl harvested some donated garlic from a Rossville home garden.

On Wednesday afternoon, Carl, Amy, John, and Stephanie harvested 78 lbs of corn. Carl delivered the 3/4 of the corn to the Collierville Food Pantry and the other 1/4 of the corn and all of the Girl Scout harvested vegetables to Ms. Julia and the ladies of Harris Cove.

On Thursday, the last 60 lbs of plot 4 corn was harvested and most was delivered to a Fayette County family of 13 children and the remainder to Rossville Health Center.

Zinnias are blooming!

Girl Scout Zinnia and Sunflower arrangements donated to Dove Rehabilitation Center

21 lbs of harvested veggies by the Girl Scouts on Tuesday

78 lbs of sweet corn harvested Wednesday afternoon

Amy and John harvesting cucumbers

 We have cantaloupe!

Happy bee with full pollen sacs

This week's harvested weeds by Patree, Amy, and Stephanie

CVG Work Progress and This Week's Work Opportunities

CVG Harvest update = 9 lbs
YTD Harvest = 533 lbs

Next work opportunities:    
Tuesday 24 June 8:00 am - 10 am Plant peas, weed, and prep for Girl Scout Visit
Tuesday 24 June 5:30 pm - 7 pm Assist Girl Scouts with zinnia beds, misc. garden work
Wednesday 25 June 4:30 pm - 6 pm Harvest Corn, beans, etc. --- lots of hands needed!

Last Wednesday evening Carl delivered our large harvest to the Collierville Food Pantry:

Since last Thursday, Carl, Arlene, and Leah watered the garden, disposed of the weed yard bags, and gathered some grass mulch. Today Carl also picked another 8 lbs of produce and delivered it to Ms. Julia.

What's growing in the Garden:

Corn:

Banana Peppers:

Sugar Baby Watermelon:

Cabbage:

Rattlesnake beans:

Acorn Squash:

And sunflowers:

CVG Work Progress -- Thank you Girl Scouts!

Today's Harvest Donation = 138 lbs
YTD Harvest Donation = 524 lbs

Next work opportunity: Join Carl at the Garden as he harvests this Thursday from 7:30 am - 8:30 am for the Collierville Food Pantry.

In the last couple of days, Carl, Teresa and Stephanie added gallon after gallon of compost to the plot 1 raised beds (previous onlon beds), removed yard bag after yard bag of weeds from plot 6 (previous garlic bed), and mowed and trimmed the grass. Jan added a larger trellis to the cukes and also harvested 8 lbs of them!

Compost dressed plot 1:

"Weedless" plot 6:

On Tuesday night, more than a dozen Girl Scouts, assisted by Carl, Jan, Judy, Arlene, Teresa, and Stephanie, checked off many "to do" items in the Garden including:

Harvesting 130 lbs of red potatoes:

Planting more sweet potatoes with Teresa:

Planting more corn with Judy:

Taste testing cucumbers with Arlene:

And weeding and harvesting the zinnia beds:

 And at the end of the evening, most of the "to do" list was checked off thanks to the Girl Scouts!

CVG Work Progress Update

YTD Harvest Donation = 386 lbs

On Friday, Jan and Stephanie transferred the soil from the spent sweet pea pots into garden holes (from harvested potatoes), carefully sprayed the weeds in the central walkway and added a few more wheelbarrows full of mulch. Added mulch around the work bins.

On Saturday, Carl harvested the remaining elephant garlic and weeded and mulched in the garden. Leah, Anthony, and Stephanie worked some worm castings into the archway pots between plots 1 and 2 and sowed 3-4 ornamental gourd seeds in each pot. They also weeded one of the raised beds in plot 1. Anthony added nitrogen to the comfrey bed and Stephanie added nitrogen to the south large cinder block bed. Stephanie watered the archway pots, the cinder block raised beds, the baled tomatoes, and all of the fresh nitrogen, and continued to work on weeding the previously garlic area. They tried to dispose of the weed bags in the church dumpster but it was full.... so most of the weed bags were placed on top of the garlic area weeds in hopes they would start to smother them (ha!).

Next work opportunities and plans:

Monday 8 am - 11 am

    --Work in a  2-3" layer of available compost to the previously onion and mustard raised beds to ready them for planting crowder peas and big zipper cream peas.
    --Dispose of weed bags, if possible
    --Continue weeding garlic area; hill up a row next to okra and plant a double row of corn; create hills about 6 feet apart in-between corn row and sweet potatoes for Girl Scouts to plant honeydew and more cantaloupe and more Beauregard sweet potatoes, if possible
    --Water, water, water

Tuesday 8 am - 11 am

    --Continue Monday's work plan

Tuesday 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

    --Assist Girl Scouts in weeding their zinnia beds and (maybe) harvest some zinnias; plant beets in-between okra; maybe plant corn or honeydew or canteloupe; taste-test some different mints in lemonade, and maybe taste-test a CVG veggie or two; maybe divide some Plants 4 Habitat plants

Thursday 7:30-8:30 am

    -Harvest available produce (cucumbers, peppers, maybe some corn??) and bring to C'Ville Food Pantry
    -Water

Last of the elephant garlic

 Leah and Anthony adding worm castings to the archway pots and planting gourd seeds

Anthony adding nitrogen to the comfrey

 Plot one weeded, ready for compost add and planting.

Acorn squash, banana peppers, cucumbers, and rattlesnake beans looking good!

CVG Big Harvest Report 12 June 14

Today's harvest donation = 157 lbs
YTD donation = 386 lbs

On Tuesday Twila and Joan reinforced the baled tomatoes with twine. Judy's husband took care of the downed tree limb and placed the pieces near the bushes-- THANK YOU!! Judy and the Girl Scouts weeded the Zinnia beds. We'll have blooms this week! Jan led the Girl Scouts in planting some new Zinnias.

This morning Carl, Patree, Arlene, Amy, and Stephanie harvested red and white candy sweet onions, red potatoes, hot peppers, radishes and the first two bell peppers. Patree and Amy cleared out a lot of the weeds in plot one.... 5 more yard bags worth! Carl weeded and mulched around the tomatoes in plot 3. Stephanie added nitrogen to the corn in the cinder block beds and sprayed witch hazel mix on the corn silks and also the melon plants in plot 3.

What a treat to see the work bins painted by the Collierville Christian Church youth this morning! They look so awesome!

Next work opportunity: Saturday 8:30 am - 11 am. Stephanie will be there attacking more weeds to make way for more plantings (crowder peas, big zipper cream peas, more melons, radishes,....). And adding worm castings to the archway pots between plots 1 and 2 and sowing more gourd seeds there. Please join her if you are able.

Arlene, Amy, and Patree harvesting sweet onions:

Patree and Amy weeding the onion beds:

Arlene harvesting red potatoes:

Harvest donation this week!

Pretty Radishes:

Potatoes and Peppers:

Stephanie adding nitrogen to the cinder block bed corn:

Tall, tall corn:

First watermelon!

And first mason bee "resident"!