Vegetable Demonstration Garden
Tuesday’s harvest includes:
Sweet peppers—3.89 pounds
Hot peppers—4.3 pounds
Eggplant—2.5 pounds
Kale—2 pounds
Kohlrabi—3.5 pounds
Tomatoes—4.2 pounds
Cabbage—8.2 pounds
A total of 28.59 pounds of produce was harvested this 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 3,636.705 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 11/27/2016.
Summary of garden activities
The first seasonal frost last weekend damaged row garden tomatoes, eggplant, luffa (left pic), some lima beans, a few beets, kale, and one cabbage. Salvageable tomatoes from row 9 were harvested and the plants cut back. Dead tomato plants were removed on Friday. The right pic shows master gardeners mulching the orchard in the background and clearing spent plants in the foreground. Garlic and cabbage are in the foreground rows.
One dead Black Krim tomato plant was removed from trial bed A then mulch was raked off and transferred to the orchard. Mulch was also cleared from trial bed D and used to mulch the orchard trees. Rabbit fencing (pic below) protects the “salad rows” from hungry rodents eager to make a meal of these nice greens!
Trial beds B,C and D were amended with compost, cottonseed meal, molasses and 6-2-2 fertilizer. These trial beds were broad forked and Elbon rye planted. Elbon rye was planted in Carole’s raised bed. Beneficial nematodes were sprayed on the garlic row and in all the raised beds, except for a few areas. Irrigation lines were tested. Weeding and edging the decomposed granite pathway was completed. Master gardener Radhika harvested a huge daikon radish in this image.
November Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for fall planting:
Asian greens (seeds or transplants)
Cool season greens
Garlic
Swiss Chard (seeds or transplants)
Kale (seeds or transplants)
Lettuce (seeds or transplants)
Spinach (seeds or transplants)
Shallots
Radish
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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