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House shingle partial bundles cluttering up your garage?
CVG's schedule July 5 - July 11
Monday and Thursday mornings starting at 8 am, Tuesday evening starting at 5:30 pm
Saturday, June 27
Volunteer Jan did the following:
- Fixed flat tire on old wagon and delivered to garden
- Washed all spring seed trays and containers with bleach soap solution, rinsed and stored in attic
Volunteers Twila and Jan did the following:
- Covered all walking paths with black plastic
- Covered half of plot #4 in black plastic
- Fixed irrigation hose leak
- Trimmed beans to avoid climbing new chicken wire fence
- Cleaned potting and dividing area in storage/compost area
- Turned compost tumblers
- Cleaned beige storage containers out and stored all frost covers in them
- Cleaned out storage benches in front, labeled items
- Caulked around each storage bench on top edge
- Weeded sweet potatoes in plot #5 and guided vines to parallel with beds
- Emptied all weed/trash containers and trash container, hauled to dumpster
- Placed all chairs and containers on top of storage benches for mowers
- Lowered irrigation times on front flower beds, garden and butterfly haven/holding bed
Tuesday, June 30
Volunteers Twila, Arlene, Judy, her daughter and grandsons, Lisa and Jan did the following:
- Judy, grandsons and daughter dug potatoes from 3 raised beds in plot #6. Jan dug the potato bin. Jan took home the potatoes to dry and will bring back for Thursday's harvest to Collierville food bank.
- Jan and Twila twined the Traveler tomatoes in plot #4 and Juliette tomatoes in Plot #3.
- Arlene (our Zinnias organizer) cut Zinnias and arranged bouquets for Page Robbins
- Lisa picked up the Bouquets
- Jan sprayed corn something is eating on the ears - squirrels, chipmunks?, white flies are gone, removing the bush beans has curtailed the cucumber beetles.
- South side garden fence was loose in areas. Jan laid the railroad ties on top of the chicken fence to prevent any animals getting in.
- Shut off all irrigation except North flower bed, it had been shut off and South flower bed was turned on full force. Everything is soaked in the garden
- Planted cantaloupe seed.
Beautiful bouquets with a sprig Chocolate Mint smells good too!
Thursday, July 2
Volunteers Arlene, Cindy, Stacy, Twila and Jan did the following:
- Patree delivered harvest to Collierville Food Pantry
- Harvested 50# cucumbers, tomatoes (red and green), okra, beans, carrot, peppers and potatoes (that were harvested Tuesday night)
- Tied up more tomatoes in plot #3 with twine
- Covered what we could of plot #4 with black plastic. Jan will pick up more black plastic at Lowe's
- Planted Okra in first raised bed in plot #6
- Covered Pumpkins with chicken wire to protect from rabbits in plot #8
- Guided watermelon and cantaloupe vines in plot #8
- Weeded plot #7 and #8, not finished but better
- Weeded and arranged sweet potatoes vines to stay in raised cinder block bed in plot #5
- Harvested the rest of potatoes in plot #6, weeded and raked raised beds. Weeded walk way
- With cloud cover and thunderstorms everyday, we have turned off irrigation and will run manually when needed
50# of produce
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