Vegetable Demonstration Garden
This week’s harvest includes:
Okra— 6.62 pounds
Hot peppers—6.59 pounds
Sweet peppers—4.44 pounds
Eggplant—6.39 pounds
Southern peas—0.3 pound
Lima beans plus okra mixed—4.62 pounds
Lima beans—1.83 pounds
Tomatoes—0.3 pound
A total of 31.09 pounds of produce was harvested this week. These vegetables were donated to the Caring Place. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 3,399.945 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 10/16/2016.
Summary of garden activities
Soil preparation, weeding, planting and mulching were priorities this week. Nut grass was removed from rows 3 and 4. Pak choi and collards were planted in row 4 and the raised bed areas. Carrots, beets, and pak choi were planted in the keyhole garden. An irrigation leak was repaired in row 5. Four buckets of lima beans were harvested from the raised beds. On Friday, lima bean vines were cleared from their trellis. Okra was harvested (left pic) then the very tall plants were pulled from the garden (right pic).
Garden waste was chopped into the compost pile. Compost temperature measured 90 degrees F on Friday. Two large mulch piles were finally depleted after mulching the herb trial bed, the drought tolerant garden and veggie garden.
October Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for fall planting:
Artichoke transplants
Asian greens (seeds or transplants)
Beans, snap and lima
Beets
Broccoli (transplants)
Brussels sprouts (transplants)
Cabbage (transplants)
Collards (seeds or transplants)
Carrots
Cauliflower (transplants)
Cool season greens
Fava beans
Garlic
Swiss Chard (seeds or transplants)
Kohlrabi (seeds or transplants)
Kale (seeds or transplants)
Lettuce (seeds or transplants)
Onions (bunching/multiplying)
Mustard (seeds or transplants)
Spinach (seeds or transplants)
Shallots
Radish
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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