CVG Work Progress March 14 - 19, 2016

This week's CVG Organized Work Opportunities

Monday — 4 pm - 6 pm - at the garden

Tuesday — 2 pm - 4 pm - at the garden

Thursday— 7:30 am - 9:30 am - at the garden - currently forecasting rainy weather, though….

Harvest donation

Total 2016 YTD vegetable harvest donation = 31 lbs

Total 2016 YTD perennial plant donation: 165+ to the Spring Fling, 20 to Elmwood Cemetery. 

Can you help?

• A self directed group, family, or community club to cut flowers and arrange at the garden on Mondays or Tuesdays with delivery on same day. (CVG volunteers are willing to help educate about cutting and arranging the flowers the first 2 weeks). Flowers to be delivered to Page Robbins or preferred nursing home from June to the end of September.  CVG will furnish pint glass jars and tags for the flowers. The group will arrange to pick up for the empty pint jars prior to delivery day. 
• Carpenter/handy person(s).  Reinforce fencing and construct legs for garden workbench/table. Work needs done in March, days and times negotiable.  Project #2- rehab raised beds. Work to begin in 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

Please let me know ASAP if you are available to help with this event. We’ll need as many CVG volunteers as possible and want to meet a few times prior to the event to make sure we’re all set with the garden teaching stations.

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 Monday March 14, Stephanie participated in the taping of a WKNO “The Family Plot” episode on cabbage. It should air April 2

On Tuesday March 15, Jan, Arlene, Debra, Susannah, and Stephanie pulled perennial pots to be donated to the Spring Fling, trimmed roots, hung CVG identifications tags on each pot, and started sorting them. Gave the Whitakers a tour of the garden.

On Wednesday March 16, Jan, Twila, Teresa, Stephanie met to finish up Spring Fling paper labels and plan the Intern visit to the garden.

On Thursday March 17, Jan, Twila, Arlene, Teresa, Leah, Sheila, and Stephanie finished cleaning up the Spring Fling donation perennial pots, transported plants to the Agricenter, and added the paper ID tags. Total plant donation: 165+ to the Spring Fling, 20 to Elmwood Cemetery. Transplanted the curly kale from the zinnia bed to plot 4— the rabbits…or other herbivores… had discovered their location.

On Friday and Saturday March 18 and 19, Jan, Twila, and Arlene led perennial division demonstrations at the MAMG Spring Fling.

Beauty in the Garden:

We have some yukon potatoes coming up!

Homemade seed tape worked to help us perfectly space the turnips!

Here come the strawberries!

And the peas

And the arugula a la “Patree”