Vegetable Demonstration Garden
Last week’s harvests includes:
Brussels sprouts—2.1 pounds
Mixed greens and kale—2.7 pounds
A total of 4.8 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Round Rock Area Serving Center. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 127.1 pounds of demonstration garden produce and canned tomatoes to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 02/12/2017.
Summary of garden activities
Garden maintenance chores occupied master gardener’s time this week. Herb gardeners trimmed herbs this week as depicted below.
Clippings were collected (right pic). Master gardener Theresa created a beautiful herb wreath with the clippings (left pic)!
Protective chicken wire was removed from row 1. Spent kale plants were removed from row 4 then composted, image below. Row 4 was amended and broad forked on Friday then carrots planted in a third of the row.
Row 5 was amended and composted then broad forked. Potatoes were planted in row 5 on Friday. Onion and garlic rows 6,8 and 9 were hand watered. Rows 6 through 8 were hand watered on Friday. The arbor area was weeded. Both compost piles were turned and watered. Master gardener Teresa waters the piles below.
Raised bed gardeners fertilized and watered their beds. On Friday, raised bed gardeners planted Swiss chard in their beds.
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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