Winter Garden Tour - Austin Texas Zone 9a - Growing Romaine Lettuce, Cilantro, and Swiss Chard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Greetings, I hope you enjoy this Winter Garden Tour of my backyard garden here in Austin Texas (now) Zone 9a!
This fall and winter I haven't had much time to garden, so I'm working with a neglect garden, but it has still been fruitful!
My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, this winter I'm growing romaine lettuce, cilantro, swiss chard, and a few other things. I'll also be discussing my backyard orchard, preparations for spring, and the future of the channel.
Also, a big thanks to @acappellahymns for providing the acapella rendition of "The Spacious Firmament On High" for our intro highlight reel!
Video Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro Thoughts
1:28 Intro Video
2:15 Raised Bed and Backyard Orchard Recap
4:32 Growing Cilantro and Romaine Lettuce
6:09 Swiss Chard and Misc Raised Bed Plants
7:47 Backyard Peach Orchard
13:02 Closing Thoughts and The Channel's Future
Thanks again for watching Austin Texas Gardening!
#AustinTexas #Gardening #Horticulture #zone9a #suburbangardening - บันเทิง
I love your content! It's so hard to find creators that are also in this climate and dealing with all the extremes of Texas weather.
Thanks for watching, it was one of my big inspirations to make the channel. I had a hard time gardening and wanted to see how someone else dealt with these conditions
I would say Austin is still zone 8b, This is the fourth winter in a row to go below 20 degrees here in north Austin. The reason we are classified as zone 9a is because of a 15 year long stretch of warm weather in the 1990s to 2000s, there have been some warm winter for sure, but record keeping has only been going for so long, there are many patterns of weather of cold and warm. Including this winter, 9 of the past 15 winters have went below 20 degrees here in north Austin, no citrus would survive without taking lots of damage or dying without protection.
I completely agree with you, 9a is crazy for Austin. Even when it doesnt snow, we get deep freezes almost every year.
Blackberries will produce off second year canes, so you should get a pretty good harvest next year. And my peaches have bloomed out also. As long as you have some bloom buds left, you should be ok. The buds come in clusters of 3, leaf only buds comes in single buds. The problem with low chill peaches is they tend to bloom early and also in the fall if they were stressed. The drought stressed them causing them to bloom. We have had hurricanes that wind stressed them also in years past.
Exciting, I've recently started propagated my blackberry plant, as its gotten so big, hoping we get fruit
I think I will try cilantro as a cover crop for a bed I don't use in the winter.
Thats a great idea, you will have lots of cilantro in the spring
Hey man I’m in Pville. Jus right round the corner. Looking good my man.
Howdy neighbor! Thanks for watching, good luck with your gardening projects
Cool seeing all things growing by accident
You try so hard to grow seeds in a container just to watch them die, but you drop them by accident and they grow 🤪
I’m thinking I may be able to sneak chard or rhubarb types in front & side beds w/out anyone realizing it’s edibles. Chard kinda looks like a tropical.
It does, especially when it gets to this size
Looks good! Didn't get a single peach off my tree... What variety is yours?
Tex Prince and Royal Zest Two, I had a good harvest this summer, but we’ll see how they hold up next year (with such a warm winter and fall blooming, I doubt I’ll be getting much)
You got a frost in Manor? All I got was 1 hour of 31 degree weather, wouldn't call that a frost, my plants didn't either. Still have tomatoes hanging
Where are you at? I saw 30 on Monday morning, and some folks on the Austin subreddit with tomatoes had theirs demolished
When is the best time to plant down some peach trees? I live just south of Manor, also a sr. software engr and would also like peaches in my backyard 😅
Very cool! Gardening a great hobby especially with white collar work, too many people don’t do anything with their hands and need to break a sweat. If you want to start planning fruit trees, I would be mapping out things now, but don’t break ground until about October, it’s too late in the season and if you plant them now we’re gonna have a three month drought and triple digit highs starting next week, the heat and the transplant shock will kill your trees. Fall is a great time to plant and if you don’t get around to it, march is a pretty great time as well.
Where was that peach orchard?
My backyard in Manor TX, I’ve got full videos uploaded in June, July, and August
I mean at 2:01 in the video