***Please update your annual liability release form for the Church and give it to me/leave it in the mailbox the next time you work at the garden***
Monday Jan 26: Probably too wet to work in the garden...
Tuesday Jan 27: 8:30 am - 11:30 am -- Garden clean-up, weeding, spraying horticultural/dormant oil, moving compost, maybe set up hay bale/window cold frame in plot 6
Thursday Jan 29: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Move compost
* 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 and mulching garlic
* 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
* Meal worms for bluebirds
Garden Maintenance To Do List:
* Weed in cinderblock beds and wooden raised beds, plot 3 and plot 6, walkways.
* Spread sulphur on plot 3, 6 to adjust soil pH
* Spray dormant oil in empty raised beds
* Re-secure black plastic coverings
* Pick up carpet coverings in between wooden raised beds (and spread a few haybales? or available cardboard)
Jan 18-25, 2015 5 lbs of harvest donations:
Jan 1 - 17, 2015 5 lbs of harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 5 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 150 lbs
Collierville food pantry January 22 harvest donation:
In the previous week progress update I neglected to mention the 14 lbs of toiletries and kids' coats that Jamila and her Girl Scout troop donated. Thank you!!
On Monday Jan 17, Carl, Twila, Val, Lynda, and Stephanie moved all available compost/soil to the northern most zinnia bed and plot 5 cinderblock holes. They covered everything possible with black plastic. They weeded in plot 1 and the plot 2 large cinderblock bed. Twila added sulphur to plots 1,2,4,6 including cinderblock holes. Added coffee grounds to the barrel composters. Dusted fire ant bait on two large ant piles located at fenceline of plot 1 and the edge of the leaf pile nearest the compost fence. Fed blue birds some peanut suet pellets.
On Tuesday Jan 18, Lisa and her Girl Scout troop delivered an awesome new handmade scarecrow for the garden. Thank You!!
On Thursday Jan 22, Twila, Lynda, Arlene, and Stephanie covered the beet plots for frost, harvested 5 lbs of mustard greens, rutabaga, radish, and green onion. Stephanie delivered to the Collierville Food Pantry. They cleaned out the large cinderblock bed in plot 5 and most of plot 1. They turned over the soil to expose any stink bug/harlequin bug eggs to the fost and to read the plot for dormant oil spraying when the weather warms up a bit. They fed the blue birds some peanut suet pellets. Carl picked up some Starbucks coffee grounds. Many, many yards of free leaf compost was delivered to CVG. Big, big thanks to Carl for organizing, Jim for delivering part of it and the Public Services Department of Collierville for delivering 2 huge dump truck loads!
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