CVG 2015 May 15 - 22 Progress and Upcoming Opportunities

Upcoming CVG Organized Work Opportunities:
Monday May 25 : CANCELLED -- Happy Memorial Day! (and forecasted rain....)

Tuesday May 26 : 4:30 pm - dusk -- Continue filling/hilling up plot 6 potatoes with available compost while looking for insect pests..., continue to try "compound layering" with potatoes that have already topped the boxes.  Maybe till empty areas in plot 2 concrete beds and plant more beans and hot pepper plants. Plant watermelon in plot 8. Ready rest of plot 1 for future corn hills/planting. Continue laying landscape fabric where needed. Continue weeding, especially walkways and "volunteer" grass in garlic beds. Work on more permanent id's for vegetables.  Maybe spray cabbage with BT again. Spray beans with neem oil mix again. Look for squash bugs/eggs on zucchini. Start dealing with oak leaves. Maybe start planning/working on the new raised bed for asparagus and the sign. Plant more okra.  Plant more bush beans. Make sure cukes and pole beans are vining up the trellises.

Thursday May 28: 8:30 - 11:30 am  Harvest for Collierville Food Pantry. Continue work plan.

Can you donate?:
Torn Pool covers to use as weed barriers

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.

Tuesday June 9 : 6 pm - 7 pm -- Host Girl Scout Troop to tend zinnia beds and other garden tasks.

Harvest donation:

May 21, 2015 138 lbs of turnip greens, kale, alpine radish, cabbage, onions and leeks, red romaine lettuce, little gem head lettuce, early/spring peas harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 37 lbs
to The Salvation Army= 101 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 521 lbs

Headed to the Collierville Food Pantry:

The Salvation Army Harvest:

Work Progress:

On Monday May 18,  Stephanie. Weeded half of plot 3 and kale bed. Added compost to potatoes in plot 2 containers. Helped cukes and pole beans onto trellises. Killed a few harlequin bugs. Fed birds.

On Tuesday May 19,  Arlene and Stephanie, Jamila and daughter Alyssa and son Jackson. Planted sweet potatoes into large containers between plots 4 and 5, planted a third corn hill in plot 1, side dressed corn in first 2 corn hills and planted bush beans in between growing corn, sprayed BT on cabbage, sprayed neem oil on beans and cukes, fed birds.

 On Thursday May 21,  Twila, Stephanie, and CJ. Harvested for Food Pantry and Salvation Army. Patree and Zoe delivered.

Beauty in the Garden:

Onions

Cabbage

Garlic in plot 4