Thursday, February 25: 10 am - 2 pm - at the garden
Friday, February 26: 10 am - 2 pm - at the garden
Saturday, February 27: 10 am - 3 pm - at the garden
* can always see CVG work plan schedules and updates on our calendar:
Upcoming CVG Teaching Opportunity
Saturday, February 27: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm - at the garden - Schilling Farms Junior High Junior Beta Club Students will be working and planting.
Can you help?
- A self directed group, family, community club to cut flowers and arrange at the garden (CVG volunteers are willing to help educate about cutting and arranging the flowers the first 2 weeks) and deliver to Page Robbins and their favorite nursing home this year from June to the end of September. Cut the flowers on Monday or Tuesday with delivery the same day. CVG will furnish pint glass jars and tags for the flowers. The group will arrange to pick up for the empty pint jars and start over the next Monday or Tuesday.
- Carpenter/handy person or two. Reinforce fencing and make work table legs. Work needs done in March, days and times negotiable. Another project - raised beds will start in the fall September and October with days and times negotiable.
CVG - Save the Date!
Wednesday April 13 - 9 am - noon - 2016 MAMG (Memphis Area Master Gardeners) Interns visit the garden
Monday April 18 - 6 pm - 7 pm - Girl Scout Troop visits the garden
Saturday June 4 - CVG is on the MAMG “Through our Garden Gates/ TOGG” Garden Tour
Work Progress:
On Wednesday February 17, Twila, Jan, Teresa, Leah, Mary, Rachel, Jane, and Stephanie. Started seeds of 5 lettuces (2 types of Bibb, 3 types romaine: red, green, little gem, as well as "renegade" spinach. Discussed an early may (1st weekend) church thank you event. Discussed a Saturday Feb 27 workday and inviting the Junior Beta students. Discussed spring planting plan, including potato varieties. Discussed new wash station, watering cans, and harvest buckets.
On Thursday February 18, Jan, Twila, Teresa, Val, Arlene, Stephanie, Leah, and Evelyn. Raked up leaves around fence line, laid weed barrier on south archway walkway, set arches and boxes in place, cut potatoes into wedges with three eyes to allow them to dry, measured out plot 4 for 6 potato double rows, topped plot 5 large raised bed with old archway box soil.
On Friday February 19, Jan Twila, Evelyn, Susannah, Teresa, Stephanie, and Mary. Added weed barrier lining to the set archway boxes and filled them with dirt from one of the plot 6 raised beds. Planted compact “Peas-in-a-Pot” early spring peas in north side archway boxes, plot 5 large cinderblock bed, and plot 3 raised beds closest to central walkway. Planted red romaine in the south archway boxes between plots 5 and 6. Planted red and savoy cabbage in garden according to plant plan. Planted georgia collards in plot 4. Planted curly kale and red mustard in two of the zinnia beds. Planted curly mustard around cabbages in plot 4. Tilled (planned) potato rows in plot 4. Planted toy choi seeds in plot 5 center cinderblock bed holes.
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