to the Salvation Army = 51 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 3148 lbs
Thursday Dec 4: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Harvest for Food pantry, prepare for Saturday's Junior Beta Club visit
Saturday Dec 6: 8:30 am - 10:30 am (rain delay time 2:30pm-4:30pm)-- Work with Schilling Farms Middle School Junior Beta Club students to:
-Fill empty plot 4 raised bed with available promix and plant garlic and/or
-Begin topping off empty cinderblock holes with available promix
-Weed plots 1 and 4 wooden raised beds and plot 3.
-Empty barrel composters into garden then begin refilling them with remaining comfrey and donated leaves
-Add sand beneath Plants for Habitat plot containers, where needed
-Maybe colorfully paint some donated windows (weather dependent) for future cold frame use.
* Looking for any hotel sized toiletries, toothbrushes, kid's jackets and socks, new kid's underwear (all kid sizes, gender). We'll send on anything we receive with our produce donation to the Salvation Army on an ongoing basis.... So clear your shelves/drawers/closets!
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
* Meal worms for bluebirds
Garden Maintenance To Do List:
* Set aside pine needle mulch on zinnia beds, fill with promix, and top back with the pine needles
* Pull comfrey seedlings around beets in plot 1
* Split uprooted comfrey plants and maybe re-plant elsewhere
* Weed in cinderblock beds and wooden raised beds, plot 3 along fence line
Last week's Work Progress:
On Monday, Twila, Patree, and Stephanie harvested 51 lbs of mustard greens, turnips, and cabbage. Patree delivered the produce and some donated hotel toiletries and kid's sized jackets and clothing to the Salvation Army. Eric Olson delivered 5+ donated hay bales to the garden. (Thank you!!) Carl weeded the empty plot 4 wooden raised bed. Teresa and Stephanie moved promix into the plot 4 bed and moved some donated windows to the compost area for storage. 3.5 hours.
On Tuesday, Carl repaired the wheelbarrow wheel and donated suet cake/holder and a goldfinch sock/feed (thank you!!). Twila cleaned out the plot 5 "corner" cinderblock beds. Stephanie sprayed a little BT on the growing cabbages. Twila and Stephanie planted more elephant and some unknown variety garlic in the prepared plot 4 bed. 1.5 hrs.
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