This week's
61 lbs of harvest donations:
to The Salvation Army = 47 lbs;
to Ms. Julia and residents of Harris Cove, Collierville = 12 lbs
reserved green tomatoes for next week's donation = 2 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation =
1945 lbs
Next Week's Organized Work Opportunities:
Saturday 9 am - 1 pm -- Beyond the Blooms open house for MAMG
Tuesday 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance, Fall planting, harvest zinnias for the Collierville Burch Library, harvest as necessary
Tuesday 5:30 pm - 7 pm --Girl Scout visit for last zinnia harvest of season and sweet potato harvest
Thursday 8:00 am - 10 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry, continue Fall planting
Upcoming Educational Visits:
Monday morning, Oct 20 -- 130+ Collierville Elementary 3rd graders and many of their parents to visit/tour the Garden. Details to follow!
This week's Work Progress:
On Monday, Stephanie picked 14 lbs of okra and tomatoes, added spoiled tomatoes and shredded paper to composter barrels. Hand watered cinder block holes, tomato bales, and bean pots. Added worm castings to north bean pots. Updated donation total on sign.
On Tuesday morning, Carl, Patree, and Stephanie harvested 4 lbs of tomatoes and okra, pulled/moved spent sunflowers and tomato bushes from plot 3 to the compost area to make room for Fall cabbage planting. Carl mowed. Jan delivered soil and red sand. Stephanie hand watered and half-filled some of the plot 5 cinder block holes with clay soil.
On Tuesday evening, Teresa and Arlene half-filled cinder block holes with clay soil and toped with cotton burr soil. Judy assisted Girl Scouts (Lisa and Anna) in harvesting zinnia and golden rod and arranging in vases for Page Robbins Adult Daycare Center. Girl Scouts, Jan, and Stephanie harvested 24 lbs of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beets.
Judy and Anna arranging zinnias:
Teresa filling the plot 2/ south cinder block holes:
Arlene filling the north bed/plot 5 cinder block holes:
Pretty Anna and the zinnias:
On Wednesday, Stephanie harvested an additional 5 lbs and Patree delivered a total of 47 lbs to The Salvation Army in Memphis. Stephanie sowed radish seeds amongst the turnip seedlings in the cinder block beds.
On Thursday, following the day-long deluge that resulted in 4.5 inches of rain at the garden, Stephanie and her mom, Sandra, harvested 12 lbs of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and peas.
On Friday, Jan and Twila cleaned up and organized the compost area and decorated with available corn stalks. Sandra harvested another 2 lbs of okra and peas, deadheaded zinnia for seed, weeded plot 1, pulled 3 spent tomato bushes in plot 3. Val planted half of the donated red cabbage plants from Bonnie Plants/Les Branum in plot 5 cinder block beds and sowed beet, carrot, spinach mustard, radish, and nasturtium seeds in most of the plot 5/north cinder block holes and fertilized. Jan shoveled the last of the available compost into the wagons and Stephanie emptied them into plot 4 wooden raised beds. Val added nitrogen to the fresh soil in plot 4. Jan spread a heavy tarp over the entire compost area to inhibit weed growth. Stephanie cleaned out and organized the CVG bin and added comfrey to the compost barrels. Carl mowed and changed out the hummingbird feeders. Sandra and Stephanie delivered 12 lbs of produce to Ms. Julia and picked up 20+ lbs of Starbucks coffee grounds.
This week's Beauty in the Garden:
Sweet potato vines covering half of plot 6:
Sweet potato bloom.... must totally be related to morning glory!
Hummingbird!
First monarch caterpillar in the Garden!
Pretty zinnias and golden rod:
Wood spirit, keeper of the nectar:
A pollen-coated bee in the milkweed:
Grasshopper:
A bee in the comfrey:
Mason bee house:
Zinnias are still pretty in nearly mid September!:
Deadheaded flowers looking a bit like potpourri:
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