Vegetable Demonstration Garden
Last week’s harvests includes:
Brussels sprouts—2.7 pounds
Mixed greens—3.1 pounds
Canned tomatoes—9.06 pounds
A total of 14.86 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables and canned tomatoes were donated to the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 122.3 pounds of demonstration garden produce and canned tomatoes to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 02/05/2017.
Summary of garden activities
Garden maintenance activities and clean up continued in the garden this week. Decayed cabbage plants in row 5 were cleared. Row 6 was prepared for onions and leeks plantings. Row 7 was weeded, composted, fertilized and broad forked. Onions and leeks were then planted, images below.
Trial beds were broad forked (right pic). On Friday, compost was added to the trial beds and leveled (left pic).
Compost was added to row garden (left pic) and new drip tape applied (right pic).
Orchard trees were sprayed with dormant oil. The compost pile temperature read 50 degrees. It was turned then bread and vegetable material were added to it. On Friday, dead cabbage plant material was added the the compost pile, turned and watered in. Leeks were planted under the arch. Raised bed gardeners performed routine maintenance on their beds. Demo garden work days were held in the drought tolerant garden (right pic) and rose garden (left pic) this week.
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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