to The Salvation Army = 118 lbs;
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 52 lbs;
to Ms. Ruth Goodman of Harris Cove, Collierville = 19 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 2,134 lbs
Salvation Army's 118 lbs donation:
Tuesday Sept 23: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance, Fall planting, continue the Harlequin Bug glove-to-bug combat
Thursday Sept 25: 8:00 am - 10 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry, continue Fall planting
Upcoming Educational Visits:
Wednesday Oct 1, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm -- Crosswind Elementary Roots and Shoots Garden Club visit. Garden tour with a few simple projects in the works. With potentially 54 students (3rd-5th grade) visiting, many garden adult volunteers are requested! Please let me know as soon as possible if you are able to attend.
Monday Oct 20, 9:30 am - 1 pm -- 6 classes of a total of 130+ Collierville Elementary 3rd graders and many of their parents to visit/tour the Garden. We are going to need a minimum of 10 volunteers to co-lead 5 different stations discussing the following topics with the 3rd graders: Plant Parts, Plant Adaptions, Plant Life Cycle, CVG Garden Tour, and Composting. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are able to attend and which topics interest you the most.
Last week's Work Progress:
On Saturday, CVG was on the Memphis Area Master Gardener "Beyond the Blooms" tour. Val, Jan, Carl, and Stephanie hosted. There were nine attendees. Val made a poster highlighting the major projects and accomplishments in the garden this year. In between visitors, Val continued filling cinder block holes and sowing Fall appropriate seeds in them. She also harvested 11 lbs of tomatoes and peas. One sweet potato bin and one in-ground "hill" was harvested by all, yielding 37 lbs. Dave delivered the remaining CVG garlic and Stephanie and her mother cleaned 26 lbs of garlic that evening to ready it for donation.
On Monday, Stephanie sprayed the homemade garlic spray on the growing turnip and cabbage in the cinder block beds in an attempt to repel the harlequin bugs. She hand-watered the cinderblock holes and tomato bales and bean pots. She harvested 0.5 lb of tomato and okra.
On Tuesday morning, Stephanie harvested 26 lbs of sweet potatoes and readied plot 6 for the Girl Scout (and John!) visit.
On Tuesday evening, Jan, Carl, and Stephanie hosted the Girl Scouts in harvesting zinnias for Page Robbins Adult Daycare Center and 70 lbs of sweet potatoes in plot 6. They began clearing out the okra and sweet potato vines to make way for Fall planting. The Scouts were also able to harvest 7 lbs of beets and peppers as well as spin the barrel composters. A photographer from the Collierville Herald attended so keep a look out for some CVG photos in the paper.
On Wednesday, Stephanie harvested 10 lbs of peas and peppers.
On Thursday, Patree delivered 118 lbs to The Salvation Army in Memphis. Stephanie delivered 52 lbs to the Collierville Food Pantry. Carl delivered 10 lbs to Mrs. Ruth Goodman of Harris Cove, Collierville. Twila, Jan, and Carl added two bags of worm castings donated by the Girl Scouts (Thank you!) to plot 6. They tilled and rowed. Carl donated seed and seedlings (Thank you!) and planted/sowed the entire plot with cabbage, red leaf lettuce, mustard greens, rutabaga, Swiss chard, arugula, spinach, and radish. Twila and Stephanie harvested comfrey for composting. Jan and Twila tilled half of plot 3.
On Saturday, Carl fertilized the 3 empty wooden raised beds in plot 4 and planted JR turnips, Napa Cabbage, and green leaf lettuce in two of the raised beds. Stephanie delivered 9 lbs of purple hull peas to Mrs. Ruth. Stephanie was interviewed by a high school reporter from the Collierville High newspaper.
Potatoes from the spring planting found in plot 4 by Carl!:
On Sunday, Teresa and her son Jack picked and pulled the plot 1 pea vines to ready it for Fall planting. Poundage to be included in this week's donation!
This week's Beauty in the Garden:
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