to The Salvation Army Center of Hope = 30 lbs;
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 32 lbs
to Ms. Julia and other elderly Collierville residents = 27 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 1884 lbs
Next Week's Organized Work Opportunities:
Tuesday 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance, harvest zinnias for the Collierville Burch Library, harvest as necessary
Tuesday 5:30 pm - 7 pm --Girl Scout visit for zinnia and Fall vegetable planting
Wednesday 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance
Thursday 8:00 am - 9 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry
Saturday 9 am - 1 pm -- Beyond the Blooms open house for MAMG
Upcoming Educational Visits:
Saturday Sept 13 9 am - 1 pm -- Beyond the Blooms open house for MAMG. Let me know if you know of any MGs that still need teaching hours.
Monday morning, Oct 20 -- 130+ Collierville Elementary 3rd graders and many of their parents to visit/tour the Garden. Details to follow!
Check this out:
CVG and PAR Davies in this Friday's The Commercial Appeal
http://www.commercialappeal.com/lifestyle/home-and-garden/garden-produce-slowed-due-to-cooler-temperatures_04837008
CVG Monthly Production by year--we're actually doing really well despite this year's abnormal weather pattern:
On Saturday, Teresa and her son Jack, and Stephanie moved nearly a yard of delivered cotton burr soil into the garden. They pulled most of the pea vines out of the largest north cinderblock bed (plot 5) and moved them to the bulk compost area. They spread half of the available donated wood shavings on the wooden raised bed rows walkways. They harvested comfrey and added it to the barrel composters and hand watered cinderblock holes, bean pots, tomato bales, and germinating turnip seeds. They made a temporary "repair" to one of the rotten wooden raised bed sides.
On Tuesday morning, Carl harvested and delivered 15 lbs to Ms. Julia. Cason half filled cinder block holes with available wood shavings. Lauryce readied the north/plot 5 large cinderblock bed for planting. Jan worked on the welcome sign. Lauryce and Stephanie harvested 30 lbs for The Salvation Army.
Repaired sign (photo by Carl)
Ms. Julia's (photo by Carl)
The Salvation Army's 30 lbs:
On Tuesday evening, the Girl Scouts and Stephanie harvested zinnias for Page Robbins Adult Day Care and deadheaded for seeds. They planted a cinderblock hole "row" of carrots, radishes and onions as well as planted half a dozen cabbages in plot 5. The Scouts donated $25 to the CVG. Thank you! Teresa spread some wood shavings in the plot 4 walkways and pine needles in plot 2/south cinder walkways.
On Wednesday, Carl planted turnips in the large cinderblock bed of plot 5. Stephanie and Carl planted cabbages in the central plot 5 cinderblock bed. Carl pulled some fallen corn stalks in plot 6. Stephanie harvested and delivered zinnias to the Collierville Burch Library. Carl weed-eated and mowed around the garden.
Cabbages in plot 5:
Library zinnias and a gorgeous Buick...for sale.... in the parking lot.
On Thursday, Carl, Teresa, and Stephanie harvested and delivered 32 lbs to the Collierville Food Pantry. Stephanie hand watered where necessary. Cason moved bags of donated mulch, etc into the garden, continued half-filling cinderblock holes with wood shavings, and worked in the compost pile area.
On Friday, Jan and Twila completed repairs to the welcome sign and trimmed the climbing rose and weeded the front demo beds. Stephanie continued adding soil to the cinderblock holes and hand-watered where necessary. Jan transplanted strawberry volunteers into cinderblock holes, added some 15.5 fertilizer since the cinder blocks have wood chips in the bottom. The most south cinder block area has deep 1/2 to 1 inch cracks in it so she ran the irrigation for 10 minutes each and hand water that area. She placed cardboard in the storage/compost area. Stephanie harvested 8 lbs and delivered to Ms. Julia. Val harvested and delivered zinnias to Collierville Baptist Hospital.
This week's Beauty in the Garden:
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