to The Salvation Army = 31 lbs;
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 29 lbs;
to Ms. Ruth on Harris Cove, Collierville = 12 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 2,294 lbs
Thursday's food pantry 29 lb donation:
Next Week's Organized Work Opportunities:
Tuesday Oct 14: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden and compost area maintenance
Thursday Oct 16: 8:00 am - 10 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry
Wish List for the Garden/Opportunities to work on your own time:
* Yard bags of pine needles for the cinderblock walkways
* Clean and oil the garden tools located in the shed in the compost area
* Unused house shingles that we use to wrap the wood edging around the outer edge of garden
* Bat house / Robin nest platforms/Bird bath
* Goldfinch nyjer seed sock/feeder
Garden Maintenance To Do List this week--can be worked on your own schedule!:
* Pick last of the purple hull peas in plot 4 wooden raised bed (nearest compost area fence) for donation/Pull pea vines and dispose of them in the dumpster. Add a few wagons full of delivered promix. Maybe sow some collard green seeds...
*Apply liquid miracle grow (located in CVG bin) to particularly maybe plot 1, plot 4 wooden raised beds
* Weed plot 6 (with the large teepee) and start thinning out the mustard greens for donation
* 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".)
* Apply polyurethane to the CVG/P4H work boxes
* Place plant id markers on rows, especially plot 6
* Move promix to fill the two stacked tires located in between plots 1 and 2 and transplant some golden rod from the P4H demo bed
* 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
* Start pulling zinnia plants??
* Seek out and destroy the pesky cabbage worms..... reapply BT this week
* Apply homemade garlic spray after expected rains on Monday
* Weed in cinderblock beds and wooden raised beds and walkways
Upcoming Educational Visit-- MAMG qualifying teaching hours:
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 Saturday, Lauryce harvested 31 lbs of turnip greens, green beans, purple hull peas, and peppers and delivered them to The Salvation Army. The Garden received a thank you note from the Collierville Burch Library.
On Monday, after the storm Stephanie picked up fallen tomato plants; worked on admin paperwork.
On Tuesday, the scheduled work day was rained out.... Stephanie sprayed BT on the cabbages in the afternoon.
On Thursday, Stephanie picked 29 lbs of green beans, turnip greens, green tomatoes, and peppers and delivered them to the Collierville Food Pantry. In the evening, CVG participated in the Memphis Area Master Gardener project fair.
This week's Beauty in the Garden:
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