Vegetable Demonstration Garden
Last week’s harvest includes:
Spinach—4 pounds
Leaf lettuce—10.10 pounds
Celery—0.32 pound
Chinese cabbage—2.18 pounds
Swiss chard—0.38 pound
Kohlrabi—1.2 pounds
Romaine lettuce—3.9 pounds
A total of 22.08 pounds of fresh produce was harvested last week. This produce was donated to Heaven’s Harvest Food Bank and the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 210.818 pounds of demonstration garden produce and canned goods to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: 0.71 inches of rainfall were measured the week ending 03/12/2017.
Summary of garden activities
Garden maintenance and tomato planting began on Tuesday. Tomatoes were planted in rows 2 and 7 this week. Five gallon bottomless buckets were placed in soil amended holes in the row garden (pics) and tomato plants planted inside the bucket–for extra protection from the elements–as depicted below.
Compost bins were labeled 1,2 and 3. On Tuesday, temperatures of bin 2 was 80 degrees and bin 3 was 91 degrees.
Vegetable scraps and bread were added to bin 2. On Friday, compost was transferred out of bin 3 and used. Material in bin 2 was transferred to bin 1.Straw bales were set up and treated with high nitrogen fertilizer (left pic). Row 4 was planted with carrots and watered in. Container gardeners tended their plants (right pic).
The area under the arbor was weeded then planted with cantaloupe and Swiss chard. Raised bed gardeners added compost to their beds then planted beans, watermelons, and marigolds. Row gardens (left pic) now have onions, garlic, potatoes and tomatoes planted. Doesn’t that HUGE bunch of romaine (right pic) look great !?
The Garden Blog will now be posted biweekly. Please visit us again during the week of March 27 for our next post!
March Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for early spring planting:
Beans, snap and lima
Beets
Broccoli (transplants)
Carrots
Swiss chard (seeds or transplants)
Collards (seeds or transplants)
Cool season greens
Corn
Cucumber
Eggplant (transplants)
Warm season greens
Lettuce (seeds or transplants)
Mustard (seeds or transplants)
Pepper (transplants)
Pumpkin
Radish
Summer squash
Winter squash
Tomatoes (transplants)
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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