CVG Work Progress March 20 - 27, 2016

This week's CVG Organized Work Opportunities

Monday — 4 pm - 6 pm - at the garden

                    5 pm - 6 pm - volunteer teacher practice for MAMG Intern Field Trip to CVG

(please attend one practice if you are signed up for this event )

Tuesday — 1 pm - 4 pm - at the garden 

practice raising Shade Canopy

Thursday— 7:30 am - 11 am - at the garden (80% rain predicted) 

                      9 am - 10 am - volunteer teacher practice for MAMG Intern Field Trip to CVG 

(please attend one practice if you are signed up for this event )

                                            

Rain cancellations by 6 am at:  https://sites.google.com/site/colliervillevictorygarden/calendar

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. 

CVG - Save the Date!

Wednesday April 13 - 9 am - noon - 2016 MAMG (Memphis Area Master Gardeners) Interns Field Trip

  sign up - Jan, Twila, Stephanie, Teresa, Dianne, Val, Judy, Susan

  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

  sign up - Jan, Twila, Teresa, Dianne

Sunday May 1 - 11 am - 1 pm - Collierville Christian Church "Thank You" Day, 

"Ask a Master Gardener" table, CVG fresh vegetable tasting, check out "Save CCC berm" project.

  sign up - Dawn, Jan, Twila,

  

Saturday June 4 - CVG is on the MAMG “Through our Garden Gates/ TOGG” Garden Tour

  sign up - Twila, Stephanie, Teresa, 

Work Progress:

On Monday March 21, Twila worked on the compost. Stephanie and son CJ worked on CVG artwork idea. Jan and Stephanie planted lots of lettuce and cabbage in plots 1 and 5. Gave one asparagus plant to an Olive Branch couple we met at the MAMG Spring Fling.

On Tuesday March 22, Jan, Twila, Arlene, Teresa, Dianne, Stephanie and an intern planted lettuce, watered in all new seedlings. Started weeding plots 7, 8. Wedded plot 4 potato rows. Started disposing straw bales. Aerated beet bed and added shredded leaf mulch then watered in.

On Wednesday March 23, Twila and Jan revamped the southeast waterway to placed the last two 4' x 1' beds at the end of the south arbor.  Place the three Russian Blocking #14 Comfrey plant containers in various areas of the garden.  Divided the garden goldenrod.  With the fall goldenrod bloom we'll be able to identify the variety we have.

On Friday March 25, Twila, Teresa, Dianne, 

Susannah and Jan replaced soil, perennials and mulched with pine straw at the church entrance.  Lined two 4' x 1' beds, filled 1/4 clay on bottom and a mixture of 1/2 promix and 1/4 pony manure.  Trenched irrigation extension to signage bed. Weeded 1/2 plot #8.  Added three new holding pots to the signage bed.  Divided several perennials, fertilized and watered.  Checked and turned compost.

Yukon Gold Potato (3/25)!