 We just passed the first quarter and the moon is now in waxing gibbous going into a full moon. Now is also a time to seed-in plants that fruit and seed like cantaloupe, pumpkins, squash, okra, and southern peas. It’s also time to start your tomatoes indoors. If you already planted these things, remember that it’s a good idea to succession plant and grow twice as much as you will need in case of disease and pest. As always, it’s best to transplant and seed-in with coming rains.
DIRECT SEED OR TRANSPLANTSEED INDOORSTRANSPLANTFor more ideas on Ornamentals, Perennials, and Herbs, visit the Central Texas Gardener and The Natural Gardener lists online. Download the Texas A&M Extension Planting Chart and Varieties.  We just passed the New Moon phase and are now approaching the First Quarter and are in Waxing Crescent. It’s a good time to plant warm season leafy greens and cover crops to protect the soil. During the waxing of the moon (the period extending from the day the moon is new to the day it reaches its fullest point), the moon pulls moisture upwards. Seeds do well during this time because moisture is available at the surface of the soil. As things continue to heat up these next couple months, be sure to do weekly foliar sprays with liquid seaweed to provide plants with hormones and nutrients needed for heat stress and to prevent disease and pests.
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For more ideas on Ornamentals, Perennials, and Herbs, visit the Central Texas Gardener and The Natural Gardener lists online. Download the Texas A&M Extension Planting Chart and Varieties. Lot's of action in the garden this week! We spotted some green anoles doing their thing... the females can change colors ya'll! We are still planting vegetables, herbs, and ornamentals. We planted snake gourd in the place of where the tomatoes are currently growing. We planted more varieties of basil Tulsi, Lettuce Leaf, Purple Petra, Greek Dwarf. We gave the plants another deep soak and did a foliar spray of seaweed to help with the heat stress. This week we harvested more Turkish pumpkin eggplants, okra red long beans, peppers, herbs, and more cherry tomatoes. Next week we plan to plant more corn that we will innoculate with a liquid spores of the fungus Huitlocoche. Learn more here about the experiment we are trying.
Join us next Saturday from 9-11 as grow together this summer in the garden. All ages and abilities welcome! Sign up here.  We just passed the Full Buck Moon. Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time. The moon will continue to appear full, swept by Saturn and Jupiter. Yesterday Saturn appeared just above the Moon, and today, Jupiter is aligned with the Moon!
We are now going into a waning period of the Moon—from the day after it is full to the day before it is new again. As the moonlight decreases night by night, plants are encouraged to grow roots, tubers, and bulbs. DIRECT SEED / TRANSPLANT
POT: Multiplying onion bulbs sprout in 4 inch pots to plant in early fall ABOUT MULTIPLYING ONIONS Tim Miller, longtime AOG member and owner of Millberg Farm in Kyle, Texas (first certified organic farm in Texas), shared this history of the bulbs he grows and sells to garden stores. Tim originally received 7 bulbs of Egyptian multiplying onions from Ken Litchfield who was a Sunshine Community Gardener back in 1986. Back then, only Japanese bunching onions were being grown in Austin according to longtime AOG member Carolyn Panak. She said they were around in the 60s. Egyptian multiplying onions have 3 other names but most likely came from Louisiana when thousands of acres were being grown before WW2 that is now all gone. MORE IDEAS For more ideas on Ornamentals, Perennials, and Herbs, visit the Central Texas Gardener and The Natural Gardener lists online. Download the Texas A&M Extension Planting Chart and Varieties. This week we gave our veggies another deep soak of water to encourages the plants to produce deeper roots. We gave the plants a foliar spray of seaweed and finished the compost layer of mulch to fertilize and increase water retention. Expect more mandalas of garden abundance. This week we harvested the Turkish Pumpkin Eggplants, red long beans (makes a nice garden makeover), peppers, herbs and more tomatoes. The purple sweet potatoes, tumeric, sunchokes, southern peas and warm season greens like Egyptian spinach (molokhia), chaya spinach, are really taking off. We planted more peanuts and dry beans and inoculated the corn with a liquid spores of the fungus Huitlocoche. Learn more here about the experiment we are trying.
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