Vegetable Demonstration Garden
Last week’s harvests includes:
Tomatoes ripened at home— 0.5 pound
A total of 0.5 pound of produce was harvested last week. These tomatoes were donated to the Round Rock Area Serving Center. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 102.44 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: 2.2 inches of rainfall were measured the week ending 01/22/2017.
Summary of garden activities
General garden clean up activities and irrigation installation continued this week. Dead cauliflower plants were replaced with cauliflower Romanesco and kohlrabi in the keyhole garden. Lettuce and cauliflower Romanesco were planted in Sheila’s raised bed. Compost was applied to row 9. Elbon rye in the trial beds was trimmed (left pic). On Friday, onions and beets were planted in the keyhole garden. Raised bed gardeners planted onions, leeks, and cauliflower. Dead cabbage plants were removed and added into the compost piles. Both compost piles were turned. Freeze stressed brassicas in the row garden, right pic.
January Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for winter planting:
Asparagus (crowns)
Artichoke (crowns/transplants)
Asian greens (seeds or transplants)
Beets
Broccoli (transplants)
Cabbage (transplants)
Carrots
Cauliflower (transplants)
Swiss chard (seeds or transplants)
Collards (seeds or transplants)
Fava beans
Cool season greens
Kale (seeds or transplants)
Kohlrabi (seeds or transplants)
Leeks (seeds or transplants)
Lettuce (seeds or transplants)
Mustard (seeds or transplants)
Onions, bulbing (transplants)
Peas—English, snap, snow
Potatoes, irish
Spinach (seeds or transplants)
Radish
Turnip
Come 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 9:00 AM to noon, weather permitting. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners!
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