Total YTD harvest donation = 790 lbs
Cucumbers, purple hull peas, potatoes, tomatoes, okra, peppers, first eggplant!
Next week's work opportunities:
Monday, 14 July: 8:15 am - 10:15 am -- Garden maintenance and watering, continue Compost Area over-haul
Tuesday, 15 July: 8:15 am - 10:15 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance
Tuesday, 15 July: 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm -- Assist Girl Scouts in zinnia harvest, light garden maintenance/possible planting/some harvest
Thursday, 16 July: 7:30 am - 9 am -- Harvest for Food Pantry, water if necessary
This week's work report:
Sunday 6 July -- Carl mowed and trimmed around the garden and compost area.
Monday 7 July-- Amy, Jessica, Corinne, CJ, Dylan, and Stephanie weeded the back third of the central walkway and most of open area of plot 6. CJ watered the cinderblock beds and archway pots. Jessica "power washed" some aphid looking insects off the purple hull pea plants in the south largest cinder block bed. Corinne and CJ harvested a few dozen comfrey leaves and Dylan mulched the sweet potatoes with them. Amy top-dressed the cinder block "holes" with worm castings. CJ and Corinne began making fairy sized teepees with some donated bamboo and placed them in the garden. Leah dropped off a gorgeous homemade fairy garden!
Tuesday morning 8 July -- Patree, Jessica, Kayla, and Stephanie weeded the pole bean/rattlesnake bean archways and placed cardboard and straw where needed in an effort to keep future weeds in the archways in check. Corinne, CJ, and Dylan cleaned up some more donated bamboo.
Tuesday evening 8 July -- Amy, Latanya, and Stephanie assisted the Girl Scouts (and Jackson!) in harvesting about 10 mason jars chock-full of beautiful zinnias and a few sunflowers. A few new 7" pots were started with zinnia seeds. The scouts then harvested the last of the red potatoes (9 lbs!) until they were stymied by fire ants, then weeded and over-seeded the corn row in plot 6. They then added donated Starbucks coffee grounds to the dual composters, gave them a few spins, and observed the heat radiating off the working compost and the presence of happy worms. The Scouts delivered the zinnia arrangements to Paige Robbins Adult Day Care Center and Dove Rehabilitation Center.
Thursday morning 10 July -- Carl, Patree, and Kathy harvested and Patree delivered 57 lbs to the Collierville Food Pantry. Kathy planted 4 milkweed plants (monarch butterfly host plants), donated by Tim Burress, throughout the garden. Stephanie sprayed the weed-infested empty bulk compost area with round-up. Kathy, Jessica, and Stephanie weeded around the large teepee in plot 6 and planted pole beans around the teepee perimeter. Jessica then planted a few pole beans at the end of the north pole bean walkway around a new fairy teepee. Stephanie over-seeded the archway bean pots with a few of the remaining pole beans.
CJ watering the cinder block beds:
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