Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Tomatoes—108.64 pounds
Okra—1.93 pounds
Cucumbers—78.22 pounds
Green beans—1.54 pounds
Crowder peas—7 pounds
Sweet peppers—5.5 pounds
Hot peppers—7.6 pounds
Eggplant—1.65 pounds

A total of 212.08 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 2,107.725 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities. We passed the one vegetable ton mark this week!!

Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 07/10/2016

Summary of garden activities
Routine maintenance and harvest activities were performed this week. Compost material was added to the new bin. Asparagus plants were tied up. Raised beds and the pear tree were hand watered. Some weeding was done in the row gardens. The intense summer heat has limited garden activities this week.  Gardeners in the right pic are picking peppers adding them to the bucket full in the left pic.

That cantaloupe weighed in at 3.5 pounds–YUM!   The luffa in the right pic is hanging on the vine.  Luffas are part of the Cucurbitaceae family.

July Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for summer planting:
Warm season greens
Summer & Winter squash
Corn
Southern peas
Eggplant transplants
Tomato transplants
Pepper transplants

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Tomatoes—215.81 pounds
Okra—2.45 pounds
Cucumbers—56.05 pounds
Long red beans—4.31 pounds
Yard long beans—2.79 pounds
Green beans—2.6 pounds
Potatoes—52 pounds
Sweet peppers—4.75pounds
Hot peppers—7.35 pounds
Eggplant—1.19 pounds

A total of 349.3 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 1,895.645 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: 2.25 inches of rainfall were measured the week ending 07/03/2016

Summary of garden activities
Large vegetable harvests and garden maintenance activities kept the gardeners busy this week. How about those HUGE tomatoes (left pic) and that whole bucket of tomatoes came from just one plant!

Areas around the melon plants, the trellis row and the east end of row 9 were weeded.  The red arrows point to those growing melons in the left pic.   In the right pic, the gardeners are weeding and working the curcubita–melons cukes, squash and watermelons!

Artichoke plants were cut back. In the orchard, spaces around the peach trees were trimmed back. Weeding and harvesting in the the raised beds was also completed.  The most important thing to do in the heat of summer is to take frequent breaks as the gardeners are doing in the left pic while sorting the harvest in the right pic!  Have a safe and happy 4th of July holiday!!

July Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for summer planting:
Warm season greens
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Pumpkin
Tomato transplants (yes, it’s time to think about planting a second crop of tomatoes for fall harvest!)

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Tomatoes—340.16 pounds
Okra—0.31 pounds
Cucumbers—42.31 pounds
Garlic— 7.5 pounds
Yard long beans—1.325 pounds
Potatoes—13.6 pounds
Red Lasota potatoes—14.1 pounds
Fingerling potatoes—3.7 pounds

A total of 423.005 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 1,546.345 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 06/26/2016

Summary of garden activities
The primary activity this week centered around harvesting a prolific variety of vegetables maturing in the garden. Imagine picking 340 pounds of tomatoes–OMG!!! At least these gardeners are staying cool in the shade!

Weeding the row garden and raised beds took up the rest of their time. A rabbit proof fence was placed around young okra plants in the east end of row 2. The newest peach tree in the orchard appeared unhealthy and was fertilized. General maintenance continued throughout the week.  Here’s what else is happening in the demo gardens….

Brown turkey figs (left pic) are beginning to ripen.  Jicama is flowering and climbing up our trellis (right pic).

Slings support mini watermelons (right pic).  Raised bed gardens (left pic) appear to weather the heat!

Purple cone flowers keep the herb garden colorful in the summer heat!

June Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for summer planting:
Warm season greens
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Hot peppers—1.05 pounds
Sweet peppers—0.81pounds
New Zealand spinach—14.4 pounds
Tomatoes—145.86 pounds
Swiss Chard— 3.6 pounds
Cucumbers—15.53 pounds
Garlic—13.4 pounds
Potatoes—45.3 pounds
Squash—11.2 pounds

A total of 251.15 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home, the Caring Place, and the Round Rock Serving Center. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 1,123.34 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 06/19/2016

Summary of garden activities
Extreme heat remained the biggest challenge for gardeners this week. But, how about the tomato poundage?! You can tell it’s summer time in central Texas–tomatoes come on all at once!!

Harvesting ripe veggies was the number one priority on both days. Potatoes were harvested on Tuesday and Friday. More potatoes still remain in the ground! Weeding in the row garden continued, in conjunction with potato digging.

Routine maintenance in the raised bed gardens was accomplished throughout the week.  More irrigation leaks were discovered and await repair.  Additional irrigation was placed in the drought tolerant garden.   On Thursday afternoon, another nematode treatment was applied to the garden and the remainder of the garden will be treated on Sunday.

June Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for summer planting:
Warm season greens
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Peppers—0.78 pounds
New Zealand spinach—5.4 pounds
Tomatoes—78.33 pounds
Swiss Chard—3.2 pounds
Cucumbers—5.04 pounds
Garlic—24.03 pounds

A total of 116.78 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 872.19 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 06/12/2016

Summary of garden activities
Maintenance activities in the veggie demo garden included fertilizing the row garden and peach trees, weeding nutgrass, and testing the irrigation system in the raised bed areas.

Spent plants were removed and added to the compost pile. Squash, beans, tomatoes, figs, Swiss Chard and blackberries were harvested from the raised bed areas. The east end of row 2 was broad forked and amended then Burmese okra, a green variety, was sown.  Walkways between rows 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 were weeded.

Tomato plants in row 9 were pruned and tied back from walkway access. On Saturday, master gardeners assembled in the veggie demo garden to apply beneficial nematodes to the garden. The process involves first watering all soil surfaces well. Then, the nematodes are sprayed over the surface and watered into the soil. The raised bed area, the keyhole garden and trial beds were treated on Saturday.

The remainder of the veggie demo garden will be treated next week.

Beneficial Nematodes
Beneficial nematodes are microscopic roundworms that search and destroy all stages of harmful soil dwelling insects. Entomorpathogenic nematodes (Steinernema and Heterorhabditis species) are natural inhabitants in the soil and attack soil dwelling insects while leaving plants and earthworms alone. Nematodes enter the larval pest through its mouth, anus or respiratory openings then begin to feed. Intestinal bacteria emerge from the GI tract of the nematode and rapidly multiply. These bacteria degrade host tissue into material the nematode can readily ingest. The soil dwelling insect then dies within a few days. Nematodes have rapid, positive, wide spread effects on harmful soil pest populations. For more information on the life cycle of nematodes, please follow this link: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/newsletters/hortupdate/hortupdate_archives/2005/julaug05/Nematodes.html

June Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for summer planting:
Warm season greens
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Thyme herb—0.19 pounds
New Zealand spinach–4 pounds
Tomatoes—40.08 pounds
Swiss Chard—5.3 pounds
Leeks—0.54 pounds
Garlic—5.19 pounds

A total of 55.3 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables and herbs were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 755.41 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: 1.9 inches of rainfall were measured the week ending 06/05/2016

Summary of garden activities
On Tuesday, 78 Chesnok Red garlic bulbs were harvested from the west end of row 7. That row was then weeded, amended and broadforked. Butternut and acorn squash were planted there. Row 7 is now the squash row. The east end of row 5 was also amended and broadforked. Melons were planted filling up the rest of row 5. Trial beds were cleaned up and mulched. Irrigation leaks were diagnosed and repaired. The compost pile read 120 degrees F. Cottonseed meal was added to stimulate more heat. Squash vine borers were discovered in the raised bed area!

The diagnosis was made by opening base of the squash stem and finding the larvae, shown in the above pic. To treat the borers, the base of the squash stem was opened, the borer removed and liquid BT was injected (using a turkey baster) into the open stem. The infected area was then covered with soil. In some instances, this can be an effective cure. Time will tell if the treatment was successful!! On Friday, weeding was accomplished between rows 3 and 4, in the potato row, and under the tomatoes between rows 4 and 5. WOW—what a haul!

Lower leaves of tomato plants in row 4 were trimmed. And, of course, more fireants were treated!!

Purple cone flowers (left pic) are thriving in the drought tolerant garden.  In the rose garden, the Souvenir de St. Anne’s bush enjoys sunshine (right pic).

MoonGlow pears (left pic) are developing nicely.  The stevia plant (right pic) is part of our container garden

The Squash Vine Borer
Melittia calabaza is the scientific name for this garden pest that will damage your squash crop! The adult moth lays eggs near the leaves and stems of the target squash plant. Hatched larvae then burrow into the stem destroying the plant. The earliest signs of this in the garden is a wilting or dying plant.

Eggs remain in the soil and can winter over to the next season. Some home gardeners plant radishes and onion sets in the same vicinity as the squash to deter the adult moth from laying eggs near the squash. Other gardeners use light weight floating row cover over the developing squash plant to prevent the adult from laying eggs. Care must be taken to remove the row cover when female flowers appear to allow pollinators access to the flowers. Once infected, however, the borer destroys the squash plant from the inside out. Definitive diagnosis is made by identifying the point of entry, usually at the base of the stem, where a gritty, saw-dust like lesion is found (left pic).

Some home gardeners physically remove the borer (right pic)  and cover the base of the plant with soil. Others inject liquid BT into the stem, as we did with our borers. Watchful waiting will tell if the treatment worked! There are some varieties of squash with tougher stems that make it harder for the borer to destroy. They include acorn and butternut squash, tatume squash, and an heirloom squash called Zucchino Rampicante. For more information about the life cycle of the squash vine borer insect, please follow this link: http://texasinsects.tamu.edu/cimg251.html

June Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for summer planting:
Warm season greens
Winter squash
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Eggplant—0.36 pounds
New Zealand spinach—7.4 pounds
Hot peppers— 0.83 pounds
Sweet peppers— 1.7 pounds
Tomatoes— 7.68 pounds
Swiss Chard— 0.94 pounds
Leeks—1.89 pounds
Garlic—14 pounds

A total of 34.8 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 700.11 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: 0.625 inches of rainfall was measured the week ending 05/29/2016

Summary of garden activities
Despite soggy conditions in the garden this week, routine maintenance, planting, and pest control were successfully accomplished. The west end of row 2 was weeded, amended, and Burgundy Red okra planted. Rabbits found our tender bean plants!  Fencing was installed to keep them away. Seems to have worked!  Squash bug eggs were identified in the raised beds and eliminated. In row 8, tomato plant lower leaves were trimmed. Pepper plants were caged for protection. Trenches in the asparagus bed were filled. Compost from the old pile was screened and applied in row 2.  Additional green material was chopped into the new pile.

A plastic bird of prey sits atop a stake to deter birds from feasting on ripening tomatoes (left pic).  Plastic snakes placed on the ground near tomato plants will have the same deterrent effect–just make sure none are moving!  The herb garden is tolerating the heavy rainfall (right pic).

Flowers are a common sighting in summer gardens.  An artichoke head with purple flower in bloom is depicted on the left.    Crimson snapdragons are a colorful addition to a summer garden and attract pollinators as well (right pic).

Figs are developing in the left pic.   As you see in the right pic, the wind has blown over a loosely caged tomato plant.  It’s important to anchor your cages if they are not self-staking in design!

Enjoy the Memorial Day Holiday and please be safe.    A heart-felt “thank you” to all current and former service members on your special day!

June Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for early summer planting:
Warm season greens
Winter squash
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Eggplant— 0.6 pounds
Fresh herbs—0.1 pounds
Hot peppers—0.18 pounds
Sweet peppers—0.17 pounds
Tomatoes—5.9 pounds
Swiss Chard—9.1 pounds

A total of 16.05 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 665.31 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: 5.2 inches of rainfall was measured the week ending 05/22/2016

Summary of garden activities
The demo gardens were drowned this week!  Even the drought tolerant garden (left pic) got soaked!

As of 5/17/2016, the U.S. Drought Monitor indicated the entire state free of drought conditions!!  Despite soggy conditions, the group managed to mulch a tomato row and a pepper/eggplant row. More garlic was harvested from one of the raised beds. Lima beans were planted in the trellis row. Minnesota Midget Melons were also planted in the trellis row, which is now completely planted.  Row 2 was completed weeded of nutgrass…but it will be back, for sure!  Doesn’t row 2 look nice?

Compost pile temps: 108 degrees F for the old pile and 122 degrees for the new pile. Leaves and green material were added to the new pile. Of course, fire ant hills popped up all over the garden! Creative eradication methodologies will be tried next week to eliminate them. Some tomato plants blew over in the raised beds. More secure staking and caging were accomplished.   Grub worms have started to munch on green tomatoes (left pic).  But, that New Zealand spinach, in the right pic, knows no bounds!  It keeps growing!!

May Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for late spring planting:
Warm season greens
Winter squash
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

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Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Leeks— 3.6 pounds
Cabbage— 0.73 pounds
Onions—6.93 pounds
New Zealand spinach—2.62 pounds
Tomatoes— 2.21 pounds
Swiss Chard/New Zealand mix—6.4 pounds

A total of 22.49 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 649.26 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: 0.65 inches of rainfall was measured the week ending 05/15/2016

Summary of garden activities
Garlic is all  the buzz this week! On Tuesday, over 342 garlic bulbs were harvested and are now drying on master gardener Teresa’s patio rafters.

Another 86 bulbs were harvested on Friday bringing the garlic total to over 428 bulbs!!

The last of the Chesnok Red garlic variety remains in the garden to be harvested later. After weeding and amending the soil in the trellis row, Yard Long Beans, Scarlett Runner Beans, and Armenian cucumbers were sown. A short fence with T-posts was installed to keep crowder peas in their place. The west end of row 5 was weeded, amended then Contender beans were planted.

Both compost piles were turned and green material added. The oldest pile temperature recorded 87 degrees F while the new pile registered 92 degrees F. As always, weeding, planting, general maintenance and harvesting veggies in the raised beds continues.

GARLIC-MAGEDDON!!
Master gardeners harvested a bumper crop of garlic this month! Garlic varieties are part of the Allium sativum species. Two subgroups in this species are commonly known as the hardneck (bolting) and soft neck (non-bolting) types. Hardnecks send up a flower stalk called a scape while soft necks do not.

Unlike the hardneck variety, soft neck garlic can be readily braided after drying.  Each of the ten varieties commonly available to home gardeners has specific features such as plant form, clove shape, taste, bulb appearance, and distinctive scapes. Some varieties do better in one climate over another and prefer specific soil characteristics. In our area, garlic “seed” is planted between November and January. Harvest is usually in May to June. After harvest, garlic bulbs must be dried or cured for 3-4 weeks before use.

In 1979, Gilroy, California declared itself the undisputed “Garlic Capital of the World.” Gilroy is located midway between San Francisco and the Monterrey peninsula, 12 miles east of the Pacific ocean. The climate in Gilroy is favorable to a variety of  agricultural crops including onions, peppers, tomatoes, assorted fruits and other vegetables. Each year, Gilroy sponsors a Garlic Festival in late July. Over the last 3 decades, delicious garlic dishes have emerged from the thousands of entries in the annual cook-off! Hey, here’s an idea: why not have a Georgetown Garlic Festival? It could follow the Poppy Festival in early summer. Think about it!!

May Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for late spring planting:
Warm season greens
Swiss chard (seeds or transplants)
Summer squash
Winter squash
Pepper (transplants)
Snap and lima beans
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps

Activities in the Gardens this week:

The KRLU news crew filmed a documentary of the demo gardens on Tuesday morning.

Representatives from each of the demonstration gardens were in attendance for the event. The PBS special is scheduled to air sometime this fall.

Vegetable Demonstration Garden

This week’s harvest includes:
Leeks—4.2 pounds
Cabbage— 4 pounds
Onions—185 pounds
Peppers—0.4 pounds
New Zealand spinach– 5 pounds
Tomatoes— 1.55 pounds
Swiss Chard—1.8 pounds

A total of 201.95 pounds of produce (WOW) was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Annunciation Maternity Home and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 626.77 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities!

Weekly rainfall: 0.1 inches of rainfall was measured the week ending 05/08/2016

Summary of garden activities
Garden maintenance activities included trimming the lower leaves of the tomato plants, weeding, and rotating crops after their harvest.

In the east end of the trellis row, jicama, cucumber and lima beans were planted. Peas and onions were harvested in the raised bed area, the soil turned and amended, then cucumbers and eggplant were placed. On Friday, a sizable onion harvest was collected.  In addition, 179 garlic bulbs were harvested and are now drying.  How about that 185 pound onion haul??  Can’t wait to see the garlic!!

Dense soil clods were raked out of the orchard. Kale was removed from row 8, the soil broad forked and amended, then Crowder peas planted. Compost was spread throughout the orchard area, the soil prepared then watermelon plants placed. The trees in the orchard were also fertilized.

With the UV index going up nowadays, be sure to wear sunscreen while outside–or better yet–carry the shade with you!  Especially in open areas like the herb garden (right photo), consider wearing a wide brimmed hat to stay cool!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all you Moms!

May Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for spring planting:
Warm season greens
Swiss chard (seeds or transplants)
Corn
Cucumber
Eggplant (transplants)
Summer squash
Winter squash
Pepper (transplants)
Snap and lima beans
Cantaloupe (muskmelon)
Okra
Southern peas
Watermelon
Sweet potato slips
Pumpkin

Come and visit us!
Our demonstration garden is located beside the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Inner Loop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday and Friday mornings from 8:30 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
Click here for location on Google Maps