Vegetable Demonstration Garden Report for September 2017
Donation of 39 pounds of produce and 408.66 pounds of canned and fresh purchased vegetables to The Caring Place and Heaven’s Harvest.
Total for 2017: 3819.3 pounds. Harvest included okra, squash, peppers (both sweet and hot), eggplant, herbs, sweet potato leaves, radishes, beans, butter beans, southern peas, Mexican sour gherkins and a few hang on tomatoes.
September garden activities
- Shed, fencing, tools and wheel barrows are all in place from Grant Funds.
- Platform, stairs, handrails and ramp materials purchased and will be installed
- Rain catchment system purchased and will be installed.
- Welcomed new members to our Master Gardener garden family
- Betty Jo’s son’s company donated three heavy duty picnic tables.
- Plantings for this month include squash, carrots, beets, potatoes, bunching onions, kale, radishes, peas,
- Installed one new raised bed
- Received load of soil compost and mulch.
- Spread mulch where needed and helped other gardens.
- Worked on empty rows getting them ready for planting
- Removed pomegranate trees by shed to accommodate the ramp and stairs
- Filled in trench to prevent someone tripping.
- Received and planted donated pomegranate tree
- Weekly testing and some repairs on irrigation system.
- Routine weeding.
- Routine pest control for rats, fire ants, aphids and bunnies
- Sprayed pear tree for scale.