Today's normal work evening-- cancelled (due to very busy last few days).
Thursday May 7: 8:30 am - 10:30 am Harvest for Collierville Food Pantry. Try to erase last year's harvest total from sign and add this year's. Continue filling/hilling up plot 6 potatoes with available compost, continue to try "compound layering" with potatoes that have already topped the boxes. Continue work on plot 4 replacement raised bed to ready it for hot peppers. Till and hill up rows for corn in plot 1. Continue weeding, especially walkway and "volunteer" grass in garlic beds. Continue laying landscape fabric in back walkway. Work on more permanent id's for vegetables. Spray cabbage. Fertilize north archway boxes. Start dealing with oak leaves. Maybe start planning/working on the new raised bed for the sign.
Monday May 11: 8:30 am - 10:30 am Continue work plan. Maybe harvest for The Salvation Army.
Tuesday May 12 : 4 pm - dusk -- Continue work plan and make sure all set for Wednesday's visit.
Wednesday May 13: 8:30 am - 10:30 am -- Host Dr. Cooper and UT, Knoxville media group for garden tour and interview. Let me know if you can be there. Continue work plan.
Thursday May 14: 8:30 - 10:30 am Harvest for Collierville Food Pantry. Continue work plan. Maybe start thinking about moving fence posts to inside of the 4x4 timbers or vice versa.
Upcoming Teaching Opportunity:
Tuesday June 9 : 9 am - noon -- Host Central Church Day Camp Middle School students for a round of Garden Bingo. Please let me know if you are available to assist.
Harvest donation:
April 30, 2015 16 lbs of turnip green, kale, alpine radish, onion, and looseleaf lettuce harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 16 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 214 lbs
On Monday April 27, Jan, Twila, Stephanie, Val. Weeded plot 2, transplanted some volunteer tomatoes to plot 1, seeded back archway planters with Kentucky wonder beans and cherry belle radish and caracas carrots, rebuilt half of the raised bed in plot 4 nearest the central walkway, protected eggplants with frost cover fabric, thinned out some of the radish in the front archway planters.
On Tuesday April 28, Arlene, Jan, Stephanie. Turned compost plie and leveled ground under the compost area with dirt washed to corner of parking lot, weeded in the plot 4 garlic, worked on irrigation, planted raspberries, organized one of the storage bins, planted oregano.
On Wednesday April 29, Arlene continued weeding the plot 4 garlic.
On Thursday April 30, Jan, Twila, Teresa, Stephanie. Worked on irrigation systems, divided zephyr coreopsis into 14 pots, hilled up/added more compost to plot 6 potatoes, harvested 16 lbs of turnip, alpine radish, kale, lettuce, onion, mint and delivered to the Collierville Food Pantry. Moved 50 donated concrete blocks from Germantown to CVG. Tilled up last 2 zinnia beds to ready them for planting.
On Sunday May 3, Jan, Twila, Val, Teresa, Joanne, Dawn, and Stephanie. Hosted an open house/garden for Collierville Christian Church-- garden tours, ask a master gardener table, bluebird station, taste-testing alpine radish and Tokyo Hybrid turnip, gave away tomato, basil, sunflower seedlings.
On Monday May 4, AM: Twila, Jan, Val, Stephanie. Prepped Plot 8 for scout visit, planted Silvery Fir tomatoes, planted alyssum, prepped zinnia beds for scout visit, ran irrigation, tightened up loose chicken wire fence before scout visit.
On Monday May 4, PM: Joanne, Val, Val's son Bryan, Teresa, Carol, Jane, Arlene, Twila, Jan, and Stephanie. Hosted 51 Girl Scouts, Daisies, Cub Scouts plus additional scout leaders, parents, and siblings for a round of Garden Bingo-- bluebirds, zinnia seed planting, sunflower and okra seed planting, potato hilling, taste-testing kale, loose leaf lettuce, spearmint, and chocolate mint, compost/garden maintenance tasks, bees/butterflies.
Bluebird station with Joanne:
Zinnia seeding with Val:
Potato Hilling with Teresa:
Vegetable taste-testing and identification with Jane and Carol:
(Kale wasn't a favorite)
Sunflower and Okra seeding with Arlene:
Compost/Garden Maintenance/Attracting Bees and Butterflies Station with Jan and Twila:
Thank you Scouts for your monetary donation to our organization! We know you worked very hard raising it through cookie sales and we promise to use it wisely!
On Tuesday May 5, Jan hand watered newly planted seedlings where necessary.
Beauty in the Garden:
Bluebirds nearly ready to fledge out of the nesting box
Scouts in the catmint
(photo by Jan)
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