* Donut Hutt and Sophia for donating coffee grounds for the compost bins!
This week's CVG Organized Work Opportunities
Monday — today (rain, rain go away) — 4 pm - 6 pm - at the garden
Thursday— 7:45 am - 10 am - at the garden
Harvest donation
YTD Harvest Donation total = 211 lbs
41 lbs of mustard greens, collard greens, turnips, beet, lettuce, spinach, strawberry, and radish to Fayette County Project Outreach
32 lbs of mustard greens, turnips, spinach, and strawberries to the Collierville Food Pantry
CVG - Save the Date!
Saturday June 4 - CVG is on the MAMG “Through our Garden Gates/ TOGG” Garden Tour
docents signed up - Twila, Stephanie, Teresa, Val
Work Progress:
On Monday April 25 - Twila, Jan, Carol, Janet, Teresa, and Stephanie. Harvested 41 lbs— 24 lbs of turnips, beets, and radish; 5 lbs strawberry, 5 lbs mustard, 2 lb spinach, 3 lb lettuce, 2 lb collard. Shona picked up the harvest for delivery. Started side dressing the cabbage.
On Tuesday April 26 - Stephanie manually rain the 3 vegetable irrigation zones for 11 minutes each. Planted some coat and jacket cowpeas along the front two trellises in plot 1.
On Wednesday April 27 - Stephanie picked up the tomato trial grafted “vs.” ungrafted tomato plants from the Agricenter. May the best tomato producing plant group win!
On Thursday April 28 - Teresa, Twila, Leah, Stephanie harvested 32 lbs for the food pantry— 17 lb turnip, 10 lb mustard, spinach; 5 lb strawberry. Stephanie delivered. Jan, Barbara, and Nancy worked in plot 8. Twila weeded plot 1. Teresa and Leah planted 10 verona tomato plants in plot 2, 4 arkansas traveller tomato plants in plot 1, 3 cajun bell pepper plants in plot 2, 4 thyme plants in plots 2 and 4. Stephanie trench side dressed the tomatoes with composted pony manure. Leah planted some rattlesnake pole beans in the empty west archway boxes between plots 5 and 6. Stephanie finshed planting coat and jacket cowpeas along the bean trellises in plot 1. Sidedressed red acre cabbage in plot 1.
On Friday April 29 - Stephanie sprayed BT on all cole crops. Twila and Stephanie troubleshot the north irrigation timer in the perennial demo beds. Twila picked up the “Ask a Master Gardener” box from the Agricenter.
On Sunday May 1 - Twila, Teresa, Val, Jan, Dawn, and Jane Y. attended the Collierville Christian Church Thank You Picnic, including leading tours through the garden and manning the “Ask A Master Gardener” table. Teresa and son Riley trimmed back the branches along the western edge of the garden.
Beauty in the Garden
Everbearing strawberries are producing
Red Acre Cabbage is heading up
Sweet potato slips are growing
Peonies are blooming
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