Vegetable Demonstration Garden
This week’s harvest includes:
Cabbage—4.6 pounds
Mixed greens—27.2 pounds
Radicchio—1.9 pounds
Broccoli— 3 pounds
Kohlrabi—6.5 pounds
Beets—3.9 pounds
Tomatoes ripened at home—15.5 pounds
A total of 62.6 pounds of produce was harvested this week. These vegetables were donated to Heaven’s Harvest Food Bank, the Caring Place and the Round Rock Area Serving Center. To date, Williamson county master gardeners have donated a total of 3,786.785 pounds of demonstration garden produce to local charities.
Weekly rainfall: 0.02 inch of rainfall was measured the week ending 12/18/2016.
Summary of garden activities
Garden cleanup and routine maintenance occurred this week. The last two tomato plants were removed from the trial beds and elbon rye planted. All trial beds now have elbon rye planted as a winter cover crop. Irrigation lines and mulch were removed from row 10A&B. The area was amended, including humate, and broad-forked. New irrigation lines were installed in those rows. Irrigation was tested for leaks and none were found. Garden debris was hauled to the dumpster area. On Friday, the garden was prepared for the forecast hard freeze over the weekend. Row 2 was recovered. Row 9 was cleared of mulch and broad-forked to loosen Bermuda grass growing in the row. The west end of row 6 was amended with compost, cottonseed meal, molasses and 6-2-2 fertilizer then broad-forked. Raised bed gardeners harvested their crops and covered their beds. Compost piles were cold at 62 and 60 degrees F.
The blog will return on December 31, 2016. Happy Holidays!
December Gardening in Central Texas
The Texas A&M Agrilife Extension vegetable garden planting guide suggests the following vegetables for fall planting:
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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