Vegetable Demonstration Garden
This week’s harvest includes:
Tomatoes— 0.94 pound
Okra—12.44 pounds
Cucumbers—0.57 pound
Armenian cucumbers—2.18 pounds
Lemon cucumbers—0.8 pound
Sweet peppers— 0.43 pound
Hot peppers— 3.56 pounds
Eggplant—4.79 pounds
Butternut squash—21.04 pounds
Crowder peas—1.0 pound
Zephyr squash— 7.77 pounds
Yard long beans—1.83 pounds
Mexican sour gherkins—3.64 pounds
Golden crispy melon—3.41 pounds
A total of 64.4 pounds of produce was harvested last week. These vegetables were donated to the Caring Place and the Round Rock Area Serving Center. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 3,065.945 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: 3.0 inches of rainfall were measured the week ending 08/28/2016
Summary of garden activities
General garden clean up occurred this week. Dead tomato plants from row 4 were removed. Sweet potato vines were cut back to allow foot traffic in the garden walkways. Spent plants were removed from the trellis row. Nutgrass was excavated from row 3. The orchard area was tidied up. Rat traps set between beds 5 and 6 were activated and those varmints took the bait! The compost pile was turned, green material and manure added. Temperature recorded on Friday was 110 degrees F. New raised beds are being set up for a new class. Preparation includes removing grass from the planned site, leveling the site, moving the raised bed frame to the new site, digging trenches for in-ground irrigation pipe to the beds, designing and connecting the irrigation pipe, then using soil and compost to fill the beds. Covering the in ground irrigation system with soil is the final step. By Friday, many of these tasks had been completed. Some of the grass and soil removed from the new site was relocated to fill the trench on the south side of the herb garden. General maintenance and upkeep of the area continued over the week.
Hot peppers (left pic) and eggplant (right pic) thrive in the August heat!
Burgundy okra (left pic) is a prolific producer in hot summers. Roses love a full day’s sun! Caldwell pink rose is in full bloom (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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