to the Collierville Food Pantry = 50 lbs;
to Ms. Ruth, Ms. Julia and neighbors on Harris Cove, Collierville = 30 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 2,374 lbs
CVG In the Press:
Collierville High newspaper article
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 will be leading 5 different stations discussing the following topics with the 3rd graders: Plant Parts, Plant Adaptions, Plant Life Cycle, CVG Garden Tour, and Composting.
Wednesday Oct 22, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm -- Crosswind Elementary "Roots and Shoots" Garden Club visits for another round of "Garden Bingo". Please let me know if you are available to help!
Next Week's Organized Work Opportunities:
Thursday Oct 23: 8:00 am - 10 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry and work on garden "to do " list
Wish List for the Garden/Opportunities to work on your own time:
* Yard bags of pine needles for the cinderblock walkways
* Clean, sharpen, and oil the garden tools located in the shed in the compost area
* Bat house / Robin nest platforms/Bird bath
* Goldfinch nyjer seed sock/feeder
Garden Maintenance To Do List this week:
* Fill large plastic containers with pro-mix on the parking lot and move them into side walkways of the Garden for future use
* Hill up plot 3 cabbages (front plot with the last tomato plants) and plant last of the onions in between the cabbages
* Spread last straw bale along "front" edge of plot 3 (this year's tomato/zinnia plot) on top of black plastic. (Assuming fire ants have "moved along".)
* Split uprooted comfrey plants and maybe re-plant elsewhere
* Harvest seeds off of butterfly weed plants
* Move volunteer sunflower in plot 6 lettuce to elsewhere in the garden
* Seek out and destroy the pesky cabbage worms..... reapply BT this week
* Apply homemade garlic spray
* Weed in cinderblock beds and wooden raised beds
* Empty, clean, and refill bird (seed) feeder/ add mealworms to bluebird feeder "tray"
* Add one more layer of sealant to the bins
This week's Work Progress:
On Tuesday, since the garden was too wet to work in, Stephanie made garlic spray and worked on plant row ID tags.
On Wednesday, Carl and Stephanie harvested the last of the purple hull peas and pulled and disposed of the vines. With Teresa, they harvested 52 lbs of produce total. Teresa and Stephanie weeded plot 6 and the main garden walkway. Stephanie delivered to 30 lbs of the harvest to Ms. Julia ad Ms. Ruth and neighbors then continued work on some plant row ID tags.
On Thursday, Carl and Stephanie harvested another 28 lbs, mostly turnip and mustard greens. After delivering 50 lbs to the food pantry, Stephanie sprayed a gallon of BT on all of the cabbages and miracle gro on plots 1 and 4.
On Friday, Twila and Jan moved sand and dirt into the tire planter then transplanted a perennial golden rod plant into it. Twila sprayed the turnip greens with the homemade garlic spray. Teresa moved pro-mix into the empty plot 4 raised bed. Stephanie rolled 3 layers of urethane sealant on the two work bins. Jan and Twila spread fire ant bait around the garden/P4H.
This week's Beauty in the Garden:
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