to The Salvation Army = 64 lbs;
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 60 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 2,657 lbs
Monday's 64 lbs to The Salvation Army (Thank you Patree for delivering!):
Next Week's Organized Work Opportunities:
Monday Nov 3: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Harvest for The Salvation Army then work on "to do" list
Thursday Nov 6: 8:00 am - 10:30 am -- Harvest and deliver to Collierville Food Pantry then work on "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
* 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
Garden Maintenance To Do List this week:
* Start planting garlic in empty plot 4 raised bed
* Fill large plastic containers with pro-mix on the parking lot and move them into side walkways of the Garden for future use
* Pull/Prune back to ground level the raised bed zinnias and dispose....
* 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".)
* 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"
* Move tires to ends of side walkways
This week's Work Progress:
On Monday, Twila, Patree, and Stephanie harvested 64 lbs of turnips, mustard and salad greens, peppers, green tomatoes. Patree delivered to The Salvation Army. Carl moved yards of promix into the garden. Teresa and Stephanie continued the clearing and disposing of the zinnias and helped Jim load the Plants 4 Habitat plants into his trailer for transport to the new Habitat for Humanity houses.
On Tuesday, Carl delivered 20+ lbs of Starbuck's coffee grounds and tires for future planters and moved more containers into the garden for temporary pro-mix storage. Teresa, Twila, Barbara, and Stephanie landscaped two Habitat for Humanity houses with FedEx volunteers and witnessed the dedication of the houses.
On Thursday, Patree, Twila, Teresa, and Stephanie harvested 60 lbs of turnips, mustard, eggplant, peppers, red romaine and green tomatoes. Patree delivered to the Collierville Food Pantry. Jan, Twila, and Stephanie then attended an MAMG budget planning meeting.
On Friday, Jan, Twila, and Stephanie applied frostcover to most of plots 1 and 4 and the eggplants/peppers in plot 5.
This week's Beauty in the Garden:
photo courtesy of Chuck Lajeunesse:
Frost on the red and Bonnie Hybrid cabbages:
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