This week’s upcoming CVG Organized Work Opportunities
Thursday— 7:30 am - 9:30 am - at the garden
Donation requests
Resurrection Catholic School has asked if we could collect General Mills Boxtops. Each one is worth 10 cents to the school. Please let me know if you have any in your pantry you would like to donate to them.
Collierville Food Pantry is in particular need of canned beef/pork meat products, like spam, chili meat, beef stew. Please let me know if you would like to donate.
Most Recent Harvest donations
YTD Harvest Donation total = 1595 lbs
Work Progress:
On Monday June 27 - Stephanie harvested 10 lbs between thunderstorms, Patree delivered to a family in need. Checked on irrigation.
On Tuesday June 28 - Teresa harvested and delivered zinnia to Page Robbins and the Collierville library. Noticed first monarch in the garden.
On Wednesday June 29 - Twila and Jan worked in perennial beds, side dressed with milorganite.
On Thursday June 30 - Twila, Teresa, Amy, Kim, Sarah, Patree, and Stephanie harvested 84 lbs of onions, 5 lbs tomato, 7 lbs eggplant, 6 lbs cucumber and hot pepper, 6 lbs green tomato. Patree delivered 30 lbs to the Collierville Food Pantry, 78 lbs to Resurrection Catholic School. Suckered the celebrity tomato plants and added an extra stake for support. Weeded in plots 1, 4, 5. Trellised up some of the cowpea vines. Moved last of promix/compost into plot 5. Watered all tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers with diluted fish emulsion. Topped sweet potato bins with dirt/compost. Discussed new logo/artwork for CVG created by Sarah.
Teresa and Twila suckering the celebrity tomato plants. Vardaman sweet potato vines growing out of their boxes.
Amy and Sarah topping sweet potato bins with a little extra soil.
On Friday July 1 - Twila worked on compost, hand watered archway boxes and manually ran perennial bed irrigation.
On Saturday July 2 - Twila checked on garden and hand watered archway boxes.
On Sunday July 3 - Stephanie started cleaning the dried garlic
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