Monday morning: LABOR DAY **no work scheduled**
Tuesday morning: 8:00 am - 10:30 am
Tuesday evening: **cancelled**
Thursday morning 8:00 am - 10:30 am
Upcoming Teaching Opportunity:
Saturday Sept 12 : 9 am - noon -- Schilling Farms Middle School Junior Beta Club for liriope dividing and other garden work. Please let me know if you are able to attend.
This week's Harvest Donation:
70 lbs of tomatoes, cowpeas, green beans, okra, hot and sweet peppers, sweet potato:
to the Collierville Food Pantry on September 3, 2015 = 13 lbs + last week’s sweet potatoes and some garlic
to Resurrection School (a Jubilee school in Hickory Hill) on August 31, 2015 = 25 lbs (thank you Patree for delivering!)
to Collierville Baptist Hospital nurses station = 2 lbs and zinnia arrangements (thank you Val!)
zinnia arrangements to Page Robbins Adult Daycare center on September 3, 2015 (thank you Arlene!)
sweet potatoes held to cure for next week's donation = 30 lbs
Total YTD harvest donation = 2,024 lbs
Zinnias to Page Robbins:
Zinnias to Collierville Baptist Hospital:
August 31 Harvest to Resurrection School in Hickory Hill:
September 3, 2015 Harvest to Food Pantry:
30 lbs sweet potatoes held for drying/curing until next week:
Work Progress:
On Tuesday Sept 1, Jan, Twila, Teresa, Stephanie. Replied to two CVG requests: Crosswind Elementary Roots and Shoots visit, CMS science teacher/head of CMS garden/environmental club. Bought three 9-packs of savoy cabbage. Worked on raised bed signs for the garden. Finished burying drain tile/french drains. Put pea gravel around drains. Used PVC pipe to bury hoses in walkways. Tilled up plot 3 empty beds. Pulled sunflower and zinnia in plot 1 then plot 3 raised bed. Planted 16 cabbages in plot 1 raised bed. Moved timbers into place in central walkway. Filled low spot in walkway in front of plot 2. Leveled out area between walkway and plot 2. Sophia brought some coffee grounds from Donut Hutt (THANK YOU!). Set irrigation to run every day inside the fence, every 12 hours in plots 7/8.
On Wednesday Sept 2, Twila, Jan. Laid contractor’s grade fabric barrier on the south side walkway between the cinderblock beds. Tilled plot 1. Moved raised bed box and replanted strawberries in back archway between plots 1 and 2. Noticed one railbird impulse sprinkler not working in plot 8, replaced. Removed black plastic from plot 1. Trash taken to dumpster.
On Thursday Sept 3, Twila, Teresa, Stephanie. Patree delivered to the Collierville Food Pantry: 13 lbs of tomato, okra, pepper, cowpeas, green beans. Teresa harvested 30 lbs of sweet potatoes out of plot 5, held for next week’s deliveries. Stephanie hilled up three rows in plot 1 and planted 17 more savoy cabbages. Side dressed with milorganite. Dusted cucumber plants. Hand watered sweet potatoes in silver bins, cucumbers, and strawberries.
On Friday Sept 4, hand watered pole bean arches, new greens seedlings, cucumbers.
On Saturday Sept 5, Twila. Checked garden. Manually ran irrigation in plot 8 and corrected on sprinkler head for better coverage.
Beauty in the Garden:
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