Vegetable Demonstration Garden
This week’s harvest includes:
Sweet peppers—0.36 pound
Hot peppers— 3.07 pounds
Eggplant—3.93 pounds
Kale—2 pounds
Bok choy—10.95 pounds
Tomatoes—6.7 pounds
Cabbage—5.2 pounds
Rutabaga—0.62 pound
Shelling beans—1.4 pounds
A total of 34.23 pounds of produce was harvested this week. These vegetables were donated to Heaven’s Harvest Food Bank and the Round Rock Area Serving Center. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 3,670.935 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: no rainfall was measured the week ending 12/04/2016.
Summary of garden activities
General garden maintenance including pest management, amending beds, fertilizing, harvesting crops, and irrigation installation were priorities this week. Trial bed A and row 2 were amended with compost, cottonseed meal, molasses and 6-2-2 fertilizer. After broad forking row 2, romaine lettuce, spinach and broccoli were planted. The row was fenced to prevent rabbits from snacking on greens. Elbon rye was planted in the trial bed and watered in. Elbon rye seedlings sprout in the trial bed image below.
Fish fertilizer was applied to the garlic row. On Friday, the garlic row was mulched, depicted below.
Liquid BT was applied to all cabbage family plants in the row garden area and raised bed area. Raised bed gardeners planted lettuce and spinach. Lettuce, broccoli and cabbage are part of the row garden (image below).
Spent pepper plants were cleared. An irrigation installation tutorial was held for the herb trial bed volunteers (right pic) . On Friday, the herb gardeners finished connecting all irrigation lines (left pic).
Compost temperatures in the piles read 60 and 62 degrees F.
December 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
Lettuce (seeds or transplants)
Spinach (seeds or transplants)
Radish
Come 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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