to The Salvation Army = 55 lbs;
to the Collierville Food Pantry and Harris Cove = 83 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 2,932 lbs
This Week's Organized Work Opportunities:
Wednesday Nov 19: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Pull back frost covering/protection, prepare beds for garlic and begin planting
Thursday Nov 20: 8:00 am - 10:30 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry then continue work on "to do" list
Wish List for the Garden/Opportunities easily done 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
* Pick up Starbucks (on Poplar) coffee grounds a couple of times per week (mid morning after breakfast rush or early afternoon after lunch rush) for composting
* Old bird feeders
* Bat house / Robin nest platforms/Bird bath
* Goldfinch nyjer seed sock/feeder, Meal worms for bluebirds
Garden Maintenance To Do List:
* Level and Start planting garlic in empty plot 4 raised bed
* Add promix to empty plot 2 (south) cinderblock beds to ready for garlic planting
* Fill large plastic containers with pro-mix on the parking lot and move them into side walkways of the Garden for future use
* Set aside pine needle mulch on zinnia beds, fill with promix, and top back with the pine needles
* 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".)
* Continue pulling/disposing of spent plants-- plot 2, 4 (cinderblock) peppers, marigold
* Pull comfrey seedlings around beets in plot 1
* Split uprooted comfrey plants and maybe re-plant elsewhere
* Harvest seeds off of butterfly weed plants
* Seek out and destroy the pesky cabbage worms..... reapply BT on Monday
* Apply homemade garlic spray/ Witch hazel spray to greens and cabbage
* Weed in cinderblock beds and wooden raised beds
* Empty, clean, and refill bird (seed) feeder/ add mealworms to bluebird feeder "tray"
The Salvation Army's 55 lb donation:
Carl during last week's WKNO's The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South episode.... confirming CVG garlic repels vampires:
Last week's Work Progress:
On Monday, Patree, Twila, Leah, Stephanie harvested 55 lbs for The Salvation Army. Patree delivered. Twila and Leah pulled zuke, zinnia and some pepper plants and disposed of them and pole bean vines. Stephanie sprayed BT on all cabbages. Val cleaned up the tomato cages and disposed of vines and stored the cages.
On Wednesday, Stephanie picked 4 lbs of peppers and covered plots 1 and 4 before the winter weather arrived.
On Thursday, Twila, Leah, Teresa, Kathy, Stephanie harvested another 79 lbs and delivered the Food Pantry. Carl picked up what wasn't distributed at the pantry and delivered to the residents of Harris Cove. Stephanie worked on the MAMG 2015 budget proposal for CVG. Carl, Twila, Teresa, Amy, Val, Jane, Stephanie attended the MAMG monthly meeting.
On Saturday, Stephanie pulled back the frost covers on plots 1, 4, and 6.
On Sunday, Stephanie and husband John replaced the frost covers in preparation for the winter weather over the next couple of days.
Last week's Beauty in the Garden:
Last of the peppers
Gorgeous radishes
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