Monday and Thursday mornings 8:00 am - 10:30 am
Tuesday evening 5:30 pm - 7 pm
This week's Harvest Donation:
93 lbs of tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, eggplant, cowpeas, okra, sweet and hot pepper:
to the Collierville Food Pantry on July 23, 2015 = 43 lbs + some garlic
to Incarnation food pantry and neighbors of South St. and Harris St. on July 20, 2015 = 50 lbs + some garlic (thank you Patree!)
zinnias to Page Robbins on July 21, 2015 (thank you Arlene!)
zinnias to Baptist Hospice, Baptist Outpatient, Schilling Assisted Living, Dove Nursing Home, Culpepper Assisted LIving on July 20 and 22, 2015 (thank you Beth!)
Total YTD harvest donation = 1555 lbs
July 20 Harvest:
On Monday July 20, Beth, Lemora, Martha, Jan, Stephanie, Teresa. Harvested 50 lbs of tomato, cucumber, cowpea, okra, eggplant. Patree delivered. Filled back potting container and plot 3 empty boxes and front archways with promix/cotton burr mixture. Started unloading aged 10 year cow compost from Indiana (thank you Jan!). Arlene made and delivered zinnia arrangements to Page Robbins. Beth made and delivered zinnia arrangements for 4 places.
On Tuesday July 21, Twila, Jan, Michele, Beth, Lemora, Arlene, Stephanie. Harvested 17 lbs of tomato, cuke, okra. Hilled up/filled sweet potato bins with compost, used garden compost to hill plot 6 sweet potatoes, pulled and disposed of spent corn stalks, sprayed BT on corn silks, sprayed neem on cukes and beans.
On Wednesday July 22, Beth made and delivered zinnia arrangements to Culpepper Assisted Living.
On Thursday July 23, Arlene, Twila, Jan, Stephanie, Teresa, Michele. Harvested tomato, eggplant, cowpeas. Stephanie delivered 43 lbs to food pantry.
Michele and Jan added two more twine lines for the Arkansas Traveler tomatoes and cleaned all the beans in the southwest arbor. Two tomato suckers were broken so we put them in the ground to see if they would start. Teresa cut all cucumbers from plot # 3 and tied up the Roma tomatoes in plot #2. We did find some aphids in plot #2 on the beans. Jan cut one badly covered bean out, the lady bugs were eating the other aphids I left. With rain coming, I didn't spray. Disposed of 3 bags of cucumber beetles...
On Saturday July 25, Twila and Jan worked on hoses, leak repair and irrigation repair. Replaced all baseball hoses with two donated 100 foot hoses that will go to third base and our compost/storage/potting area. Turned on plot #7 and 8's irrigation and found maybe one of our water issues (one of the pulsating heads were broken). Attached brown Costco 100 foot hose to the hose on our front spigot for hand watering (will reach the far corners of plot #1 and 4. Replaced hose for front east irrigation with 75' hose Jan purchased for the garden. Replaced 50 ft irrigation hose to plot #7 and 8 with reliable hose cut to fit. Took that 50 ft hose replaced the back west irrigation hose (again it looked like it was unscrewed which makes me wonder about the pressure popping the plastic hose threads). Cleaned up areas. Twila watered Arkansas Travel tomatoes and we fixed 3 of the tomatoes in plot # 3 with weed/trash buckets as water retainers like the archway bottles (an experiment). One tomato cage was complete down from a storm so anchored it with steel rods. Worked in the compost area some. Left some of the hoses to recycle mending supplies and the bad hoses we trashed. Planted 5 moon flowers in front flower beds and manually watered them for 5 minutes. Left the irrigation off for the garden. The garden looks good. Tomatoes might need more water late Sunday. Sprayed pumpkins, watermelon and cantaloupes with Sevin. Killed several eggs and a stink bug on pumpkins. Saw several cucumber beetles on cantaloupes.
On Sunday July 26, Stephanie handwatered archway planters, tomato/comfrey bins, plot 3 tomatoes, Ark. traveler tomatoes, filled bottles/containers with water. Harvested about a pound of okra.
