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This garden advice is 'More Important than Ever'

Master gardeners offer free garden makeover workshop

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Here's a great example of a garden that uses less water -- it's the Water Efficient Landscape (WEL) at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center in Fair Oaks. A workshop Saturday by the Nevada County master gardeners will offer tips on a no-lawn landscape makeover. (Photo: Kathy Morrison)

As California suffers through another drought and temperatures soar, more residents are asking themselves:

Is it maybe time to get rid of the lawn?

Get the answers you need before you launch your landscape project with a free virtual workshop, presented by the UC Master Gardeners of Nevada County

Set for 9 a.m. Saturday, July 24, “Garden Makeover: More Important than Ever” will show how Northern California residents can adapt their landscapes and gardening habits to help their gardens thrive with less water.

“As many parts of our county begin mandatory water cuts because of the continuing drought, and as our summer temperatures hit record highs, it's more important than ever to be water-wise in our gardens,” say the master gardeners.

Whether contemplating a full landscape makeover or just tweaking irrigation, this one-hour Zoom presentation will be packed with useful information. Among the topics to be discussed: plant selection; irrigation; water-saving techniques such as mulching; and converting lawn to landscape.

The master gardeners also will answer questions from participants.

No advance registration is required. To Zoom into the workshop, get the links and more details here:
http://ncmg.ucanr.org/ .

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During this stormy week, let the rain soak in while making plans for all the things you’re going to plant soon:

* During rainy weather, turn off the sprinklers. After a good soaking from winter storms, lawns can go at least a week without sprinklers, according to irrigation experts. For an average California home, that week off from watering can save 800 gallons.

* February serves as a wake-up call to gardeners. This month, you can transplant or direct-seed several flowers, including snapdragon, candytuft, lilies, astilbe, larkspur, Shasta and painted daisies, stocks, bleeding heart and coral bells.

* In the vegetable garden, plant Jerusalem artichoke tubers, and strawberry and rhubarb roots.

* Transplant cabbage and its close cousins – broccoli, kale and Brussels sprouts – as well as lettuce (both loose leaf and head).

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