Collierville Victory Garden and Butterfly Haven: CVG 2015 June 21

Saturday, June 27, 2015

CVG 2015 June 21 - 27 Progress and Upcoming Opportunities

Can you donate:

* House shingle partial bundles cluttering up your garage?

* Time each week to drop off flower arrangements and pick up vases at Page Robbins and the Collierville Public Library?

Upcoming CVG Organized Work Opportunities:

Monday June 29: 8:00 am - 10:30 am -- Finish demo-ing rotten central beds in plot 4, top the empty plot 6 beds with soil from plot 4. Hand water tomatoes and archway boxes and hay bale beds and new pepper plants. Sow okra seed in plot 6 large raised bed near front fence. Sow more corn in plot 1. Reseed some cantaloupe in plot 8.

Tuesday June 30 : 5:30 pm - dusk -- Harvest two potato beds, pull weeds in zinnia beds, Continue weeding, especially walkways and "volunteer" grass in beds. Maybe harvest some zinnias and sunflowers for donation.. Spray beans and cukes with neem oil mix again. Make sure cukes and pole beans and tomatoes are vining up the trellises. Use twine to support the ambitious plot 3 tomatoes. Weed plot 8.

Thursday July 2: 8:00 am - 10:30 am -- Harvest for the Food Pantry. Hand water all tomatoes, archways, haybales. Spray BT on corn silks. Continue garden tasks.

Harvest donation:

June 22 and 25, 2015 60 lbs of green beans, cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, red potatoes, leek, pepper harvest donations:
to a church food pantry in Hickory Hill on June 22, 2015 = 28 lbs + some garlic
to the Collierville Food Pantry on June 25, 2015 = 32 lbs + some garlic
Total YTD harvest donation = 1171 lbs

To the food pantry at a church in Hickory Hill:

To the Collierville Food Pantry:

Work Progress:

On Monday June 22, Jan and Stephanie. Harvested for Hickory Hill food pantry. Pulled pest ridden bush green beans. Pulled pest ridden radish. Put zukes out of their misery. Watered new tomatoes. Cleaned garlic. Added black plastic to cook soil/compost in some of the plot 3 raised beds. Trimmed tomatoes and cukes. Staked and tied up banana pepper plant in plot 1.

On Tuesday June 23, Jan, Charles, Arlene, Jane, Amy and Stephanie. Converted irrigation system from 2 zones to 3. Hosted 4 girl scouts and 2 parents. Jan and Charles continued demo-ing plot 4 rotten wood beds. Arlene turned plot 5 corner bed to ready it for re-planting. Jane and Amy led scouts in harvesting 7 lbs of red potatoes and harvesting first zinnias of the season (5 vases). Arlene delivered the arrangements to Page Robbins. Stephanie watered tomatoes and archway boxes and sprayed neem on cukes and beans.

On Thursday June 25, Arlene, Jan, Beth, Stephanie, Patree. Harvested for the food pantry: 5 lb of green beans, pepper, tomato; 20 lb of cuke, eggplant, carrots, okra. Plus Tuesday's potatoes. Patree delivered. Pulled more bush bean plants. Planted more hot pepper plants (fatali and mustard habanero), trimmed tomatoes, hand-watered where necessary, side-dressed corn, sprayed corn silks with BT, planted sweet potatoes, moved top soil from parking lot to donated compost pile, tilled up clay in donated compost pile and covered with black plastic, trimmed red bud tree a little more, added stakes to new pepper plants, hilled up sweet potatoes in bins.