Vegetable Demonstration Garden
Last week’s harvests includes:
Brussels sprouts— 1 pound
Spinach—1 pound
Lettuce—3 pounds
A total of 5 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to Heaven’s Harvest Food Bank. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 107.44 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 01/29/2017.
Summary of garden activities
Soil preparation and planting activities were main activities in the garden this week. Row 9 was prepared with compost, cottonseed meal, molasses and 6-2-2 fertilizer then broad forked in (left pic).
Onions were planted afterwords (right pic.) Dead plant material was removed from the trellis row along with some weeds. Row 6 was amended and leveled as illustrated below.
Sea tea was applied to row 7,8 and 9 (left pic) and the raised beds (right pic).
Elbon rye was turned over in the two trial beds, images below.
Raised bed gardeners performed routine maintenance. An irrigation leak to the raised beds was identified and repaired.
February 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)
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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