July 21-26, 2014 CVG Work Progress and Harvest Update

Next Work Opportunities:
Monday 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- harvest for The Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center, garden maintenance and watering
Tuesday 9 am - 10:30 am -- continue garden and compost area maintenance (It's school registration day so Stephanie will try not to be late as she has to register her son.)
Tuesday 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm -- Girl Scout visit for zinnia harvesting and light garden maintenance
Thursday 7:30 am - 9:00 am -- Harvesting for Collierville Food Pantry and any necessary garden maintenance

This week's 117 lbs of harvest donations:
to the ladies of Harris Cove= 15 lbs;
to the Girl Scout Volunteers= 40 lbs;
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 62 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 1,002 lbs
15 lbs of tomatoes, okra, purple hull peas donated to the ladies of Harris Cove on Monday 21July:

19 lbs of Watermelon and 21 lbs of harvested corn taste-tested by the hard-workng Girl Scout (and Jackson!) Volunteers on Tuesday 22 July:

62 lbs of produce donated to the Collierville Food Pantry on Thursday 24 July:

Work Progress:

On Monday Carl mowed around the garden and Twila, Dianne, Carl, and Stephanie cleaned up and cleared the large branches that fell all around the compost area after Rob Smith cut them into more practical pieces. Stephanie continued her battle with the evil squash borer bugs on the miniature pumpkin plants and the weeds in the compost area and started working on a tire planter.

Large tree limbs that were blocking the compost area after the thunderstorm/front:

Dianne (and Twila in the background) moving tree branches to the parking lot to cut up and stack:

Garden in height of summer production:

On Tuesday morning Twila and Stephanie continued weeding plot 1 and laid all available cardboard in the plot 1 walkways.

Welcome Garden visitor to the zinnias:

Aftermath of unwelcome Garden visitor to the corn:

On Tuesday night Latanya, Twila, Judy, and Stephanie assisted Girl Scout volunteers as they harvested zinnias for Dove Rehabilitation Center and Paige Robbins Adult Day Care Center and vegetables for taste-testing as well as donation to Collierville Food Pantry:

On Thursday Carolyn, Carl, Stephanie's mom Sandra, Dylan, Cori, and Stephanie harvested for the Collierville Food Pantry and Carl delivered.

Carolyn and Carl tip-toeing through the melons to hunt for cukes and tomatoes:

Cori and Dylan searching for okra and Sandra working on the ornamental gourd walkway:

Then Cori and Dylan agreed to be a human tape measure against the growing mammoth sunflower:

 On Saturday, Carl mowed around the Garden and Stephanie watered the raised beds, archway pots, and baled tomatoes and continued her squash borer battle.... and maybe identified one of the corn-burglars: