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Community Workday at Teaching Gardens at ZBG

12/31/2022

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Thanks volunteers for your help this past Saturday! We did post-freeze clean-up before the new year. We had a heap of organic matter to compost and while the garden was sad to see after the freeze, decay is a reminder that renewal is around the corner.

We planted more peas, harvested tumeric, sunchokes, and horseradish. The purple sage was the winner of this freeze thanks to the anthocyanins that help protect it from frost. We also began to prep the soil for spring crops with compost, bat guano, and recycled mushroom blocks. (Scroll down to learn how to get them for your garden.) Join us next week to continue to prep soil for spring.
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What to Plant Now: Dec 30 - Jan 5

12/30/2022

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We just passed the first quarter and the moon is now waxing gibbous going into a full moon. Now is also a time to seed-in peas, fava beans, and also plant transplants of strawberries, nut trees, fruit trees and berry bushes. Avoid planting tropical fruit trees and citrus until after the last frost. This is also a reminder to prune and trim your fruit trees while they are dormant. After February, plants start to bud and it will be too late. It’s always best to try to transplant and seed-in with the coming rains.

SEED INDOORS
  • Eggplant
  • Peppers 
  • Tomatoes

DIRECT SEED OUTDOORS
  • Peas: Snow, Snap, Sugar 
  • Fava Beans

TIP: For best results in germination, soak seeds overnight and then toss in a #Rhizobiumbacteria inoculant before planting in soil.

TRANSPLANT: Now is also a time to plant fruit trees, graft & prune.
  • Apples
  • Figs
  • Grapes
  • Peaches
  • Pears
  • Pecans
  • Persimmons
  • Plums
  • Pomegranates
  • Blackberries
  • Raspberries
  • Strawberries

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.


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What to Plant Now: December 24 -29

12/24/2022

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We just passed the New Moon phase and are now approaching the First Quarter and are in Waxing Crescent. 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. 
TRANSPLANT
  • Asparagus
DIRECT SEED OUTDOORS 
  • Arugula

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.

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Teaching Garden Update: Pre-freeze Harvest

12/17/2022

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Thanks volunteers for coming out this past Saturday to harvest and enjoy fruits of our labor. We harvested Tim's Silver Fir tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, squash, tumeric, sunchokes, purple sweet potatoes, radishes, greens, flowers and herbs. We shared homemade goodies including Danielle's ginger snaps and Angel's Smashed Sunchokes With Thyme-Butter. Join us on Saturday the 31st for freeze clean-up.
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What to Plant Now: Dec 9 -16

12/9/2022

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We are coming up in on winter solstice and we just passed the Cold Moon, a name used by the Mohawk people, this Moon occurs when winter cold fastens its grip.

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. It’s always best to try to plant with the coming rains which are in the forecast. 

DIRECT SEED OUTDOORS
Bulbing Onions
Radishes
Turnips

SEED INDOORS/TRANSPLANT
Leeks
Chives
Bunching Onions

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.

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Teaching Garden Update: Sweet Potato Harvest

12/7/2022

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💜Who's harvesting sweet potatoes? Check out the beautiful Hawaiian variety of sweet potatoes we harvested @zilkerbotanicalgarden this last community workday. One was shaped like a human heart! 💜

Last winter, we showed you two different ways of growing slips, the soil method being the most effective. We grew about 100 slips from two sweet potatoes.

The slips were ready to plant in April, after the last frost.

Check out our harvesting video from fall 2020 with long-time member David Kraemer invited us to his neighborhood traffic calming circle where he grew sweet potatoes!! 🍠 He showed us how to know when to harvest, how to cure for long storage and he even gives some of his favorite resources for growing veggies in Central Texas. 

We will be definitely be saving some of these tubers to grow slips next year and do more giveaways! You can start slips in January or February!
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