Vegetable Demonstration Garden
This week’s harvest includes:
Tomatoes— 10.47 pounds
Okra—11.48 pounds
Cucumbers— 8.62 pounds
Armenian cucumbers—0.5 pounds
Lemon cucumbers—1.8 pounds
Sweet peppers—1.3 pounds
Hot peppers— 2.6 pounds
Eggplant—9 pounds
Butternut squash—76.44 pounds
Acorn squash—7.5 pounds
Zephyr squash—1.8 pounds
Yard long beans—0.5 pounds
Mexican sour gherkins—5.6 pounds
Sweet potato leaves—2.4 pounds
A total of 140 pounds of produce was harvested on Friday. These vegetables were donated to the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 3,001.54 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: 4.85 inches of rainfall were measured the week ending 08/21/2016
Summary of garden activities
Activities in the garden were limited due to heavy rainfall over the week. Although we measured 4.85 inches of rain, this amount probably underestimates the actual rainfall hitting the ground. On Friday, gardeners cleared weeds in the orchard and removed spent cucumber and tomato plants from the trial beds. Sweet potato vines and butternut squash vines were cut back from the pepper row and walkways between rows 5 and 6. Rat traps were set in the walkway between rows 5 and 6 as well as in the melon row. Tendergreen and Straight 8 cucumbers were planted in row 5, caged and watered in with SeaTea. The compost pile temperature measured 93 degrees F. Additional vegetable and green matter were added. Raised bed gardeners harvested their veggies and performed general maintenance.
A monarch cluster is taking a rest stop on Greggs bluemist flower (left pic). Belinda’s Dream is part of the rose garden family at the gardens (right pic).
August Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for late summer planting:
Warm season greens
Beans, snap and lima
Beets
Broccoli (transplants)
Brussels sprouts (transplants)
Cabbage (transplants)
Collards (seeds or transplants)
Carrots
Cauliflower (transplants)
Swiss Chard (seeds or transplants)
Cucumber
Kohlrabi (seeds or transplants)
Mustard (seeds or transplants)
Summer squash
Turnip
Come and 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 8:30 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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