We had more thefts in the garden this week. Another half dozen watermelons have been snatched from the mouths of the poor folks who are fed by the produce we donate to food banks from our “God’s little acre” by someone who thinks it is perfectly fine to steal the hard work of the garden team and use the produce for their own purposes. This is especially disheartening since the row garden is at the back of the demo garden space where someone would have to walk all the way from the ag office parking lot or park in the road and bridge department lot in order to reach the watermelon patch.
We did harvest some southern peas, a few squash and a few tomatoes from the row garden, but the amount was too small to donate. We planted some Acorn and Delicata winter squash in the row garden this morning as well as several varieties of fall tomatoes. Hopefully we will be able to harvest and donate that produce before someone steals it.
In the raised beds we harvested a small amount of the following produce: several kinds of bush beans as well as Kentucky Wonder pole beans; cherry tomatoes; bell and hot peppers; English and lemon cucumbers; a couple of varieties of eggplant; okra; and a few cantaloupe. We planted half a dozen Malabar spinach plants in the bean bed where we had removed the asparagus beans last week. Then we planted two Celebrity and two Juliet fall tomatoes in the eggplant/squash bed. We had to take out a squash plant and repair the irrigation system in that bed in order to plant.
We also cut back many of the herbs and sprayed BT on all of the rosemary, thyme, mint and pennyroyale because the web worms are still around. In addition we loosened some compacted soil around the fig trees. We decided that we will have to rework the irrigation system around them next week.
We plan to do an experiment this fall to try to estimate the efficiency of Scott’s new Expand and Gro planting medium. So we measured some beds and calculated the volume of mix we will need to do that experiment.
The new Master Gardener class has started and we already had an intern working with us this week. We are excited to have new vegetable gardeners join the team of “Veggie Garden Irregulars” who maintain the veggie demo garden.
The demonstration garden is located north of the Williamson County Extension Office driveway at 3151 SE Innerloop Road, Georgetown, Texas. Master gardeners are usually at work in the vegetable garden on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 to 11:00. Anyone is welcome to stop by to see the garden or to ask questions of the master gardeners.
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