CVG 2015 May 23 - 31 Progress and Upcoming Opportunities

Upcoming CVG Organized Work Opportunities:
Monday June 1: 8:30 am - 11 am  -- Continue fence renovations, mound potatoes for the last time, plant strawberries, finish building raised bed in plot 4, maybe start demo-ing rotten central beds in plot 4, divide perennials in plots 7 and 8.

Tuesday June 2 : 8:00 am - 10:00 am -- Harvest for The Salvation Army. Till plot available area in plot 1 for more corn planting and lay more landscape fabric in plot walkways between rows. Till plot 2 large concrete block bed. Continue fence renovations.
Tuesday June 2 : 5:30 pm - dusk -- Divide zinnias seedlings and pull weeds in Girl Scout beds. 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. Plant more peppers. Plant more okra.  Plant more bush beans. Plant more corn. Make sure cukes and pole beans are vining up the trellises. Continue fence renovations.

Wednesday June 3: 8:30 am - 11:30 am  --Continue fence renovations, start on walkway. Continue other garden tasks.

Thursday June 4: 8:30 am - 10:30 am  -- Harvest for the Food Pantry. Continue fence renovations. Continue walkway/drainage project. Continue other garden tasks.

Friday June 5 : 8:30 am - 10: 30 am -- Continue fence renovations. Finish walkway/drainage project. Continue other garden tasks.

Saturday June 6: 8:00 am - noon (or longer)-- Stretch new fence. Finish fence renovations. Continue other garden tasks.

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. Please let me know if you are available to assist.

Harvest donation:

May 28, 2015 53 lbs of turnip greens, cabbage, onions, red romaine lettuce, little gem head lettuce, carrots, potatoes, last of the early/spring peas harvest donations:
to the Collierville Food Pantry = 53 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 574 lbs

Headed to the Collierville Food Pantry:

Work Progress:

On Tuesday May 26,  Twila and Jan worked in the compost area, zinnia beds, and plots 7 and 8. Stephanie, Hayden, and Senthilvel sprayed cabbage with BT, weeded one bed of garlic, pulled 26 lbs of kilarney red and redneck wild garlic, sprayed neem oil and beans and cukes.

26 lbs of garlic curing in Stephanie's garage

On Thursday May 28,  Twila, Jan, Hayden, Teresa, and Stephanie harvested 53 lbs of lettuce, garlic, onion, cabbage, carrots, peas, and potatoes. Patree delivered the produce to the Collierville Food Pantry. Twila and Teresa continued weeding. Stephanie side-dressed the corn with nitrogen. Jan, Hayden, Stephanie, and Teresa pulled and emptied pots in plot 8 and added a few handfuls of sand into each. Added 3 planting areas in each row. Hayden planted moon and stars watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew in the new plot 8 planting areas. Jan, Stephanie, and Hayden discussed fence renovation plan. Teresa and Stephanie side-dressed the potatoes with 6-12-12.

On Friday May 29,  Twila, Jan, and Teresa started to dig the ditch for the perimeter drain pipe between the north side of the garden and plots 7/8 to alleviate the standing water.

On Saturday May 30,  Jan purchased another 100 ft of perforated drain pipe and sediment cover. Twila and Jan continued to dig, lay and cover the perimeter drain pipe. Rain delayed. Jan continued work in the afternoon. Stephanie ordered fence renovation materials.

Beauty in the Garden:
Beans in plot 3

Homegrown sweet potato slips

Tomatoes!