Sept 22 - Sept 28, 2014 CVG Progress and and Upcoming Organized Work Opportunities

Last week's 23 lbs of harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 12 lbs;
to Ms. Ruth Goodman of Harris Cove, Collierville = 11 lbs

Total YTD harvest donation = 2,157 lbs

This Week's Organized Work Opportunities:

Monday Sept 29: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance, Fall planting, continue the Harlequin Bug glove-to-bug combat
Tuesday Sept 30: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance, Fall planting, continue the Harlequin Bug glove-to-bug combat
Wednesday Oct 1: 4 pm - 5:30 pm-- Crosswind Elementary Roots and Shoots Garden Club
Thursday Oct 2:  8:00 am - 10 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry, continue Fall planting

CVG Press:

Look for Carl's column in this week's Collierville Herald!

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 dictated by a "garden bingo" game. 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 and arrive at 4 to be set before the students arrive 30 minutes later.

Draft Bingo card for the event:

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.

This week's Work Progress:

On Monday, Carl mowed and Stephanie worked on admin.
On Tuesday, Janeene weeded in the cinderblock beds and pulled volunteer cucumber vines to make way for other Fall planting. Patree harvested 6 lbs of green tomatoes and she and Stephanie pulled a few tomato plants. Stephanie started hilling up plot 3, changed out a rubber washer in the CVG hose connected to the main blue water valve, spread fire ant bait in plot 1 and the sw corner of plot 3, started filling a tire planter with compost, and spun the compost barrels. In the evening, a Girl Scout and her mother harvest 8 lbs of produce.
On Wednesday, Carl planted 63 cabbages in plot 3 and greens in plot 4. He also hand-watered plots 2 - 6 where needed. Stephanie began working on a tri-fold we'll use at the next MAMG meeting.

On Thursday, Janeene, Teresa, and Stephanie picked another 3 lbs of eggplant and green beans. They weeded in plot 1, watered, and picked up pea vines. They moved some comfrey to the barrel composters and transferred a mature marigold plant to the tire planter. Stephanie delivered 12 lbs of produce to the Collierville Food Pantry and 11 lbs to Ms. Ruth of Harris Cove. Ms. Ruth's husband asked if we were growing mustard greens. Continued work on the CVG tri-fold.

On Friday, Stephanie hand-watered the emerging seedlings in plot 6 and the newly planted cabbage in plot 3.

This week's Beauty in the Garden: