Monday Feb 9: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Continue garden clean up, start focusing on window cold frames, add nitrogen to plot 2 new compost, add dormant oil to some plot 1 beds and old bean pot soil, continue adding cardboard to plot 4 walkways
Thursday Feb 12: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Maybe small harvest for C'Ville Food Pantry, Continue work from Monday, turn soil again in cinderblock beds
* 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!
***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***:
There are some copies in the garden mailbox as well.
* Yard bags of pine needles for the 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 plot 4 wooden raised beds and top off with compost in old cabbage area, clean out most of plot 6, walkways as well as dispose of any broken, discarded garden items
* Spray dormant oil in empty raised beds when weather warms a bit... probably not this week!
* Continue adding available cardboard in walkways between plot 4 wooden raised beds (and spread a few haybales?)
* Start building hay bale raised bed and hay bale cold frame
Feb 2-Feb 8, 2015 3 lbs of harvest donations:
Feb 5, 2015 3 lbs of harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 3 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 158 lbs
Collierville food pantry Feb 5 harvest donation:
On Monday Feb 2, Carl bought bird seed and suet cakes for the bluebirds.
On Tuesday Feb 3, Jan, Twila, Lynda, and Stephanie continued laying cardboard in plot 4, cleaned out plot 3, covered hay bales with trash bags and constructed raised beds with them in the south walkways. They uncovered the plot 2 large cinderblock bed and prepared it for compost filling. They cleaned out plot 3 and covered it with black plastic. Carl and Parker turned and filled the empty plot 2 cinderblock beds with compost, filled the new hay bale raised beds 2/3 deep with compost, and filled the low spot at the end of a plot 4 row with compost. They cleaned out and weeded the archway trellises. They filled the 6 large containers in the garden with compost. Jeff picked up the garden tools to clean and paint them.
On Wednesday Feb 4, Jan and Stephanie harvested 3 pounds of beets, rutabagas, and a little remaining mustard greens and a lonely carrot.
On Thursday Feb 5, Stephanie delivered the harvest to the Collierville Food Pantry and worked on some admin/seed and tomato cage ordering... Jan worked on an online garden planning software for CVG as well as a plot 3 raised bed plan/cost estimate.
On Friday Feb 6, Carl dropped off some more needed cardboard for walkways and fed the bluebirds.
On Saturday Feb 7, Stephanie uncovered the beets for the warm weather.
