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Sacramento mum show set for this weekend

Pandemic can't stop 73rd annual celebration

Sacramento Digs Gardening
BY Debbie Arrington PUBLISHED NOV 2, 2020

This trio of Mount Shasta mums was a winner

at an earlier show. (Photo courtesy Sacramento

Chrysanthemum Society

This show will go on!

This weekend, the Sacramento Chrysanthemum Society along with the Sacramento Floral Design Guild will present the 73rd annual Sacramento Chrysanthemum Show.

Open free to the public, the show will be held at Shepard Garden and Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento, in McKinley Park. Show hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Nov. 8.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on gatherings began in March, the mum show will be the first public flower show to be presented at Shepard Center. Although there have been few opportunities to celebrate and admire flowers in a traditional public gathering, that doesn’t mean flower lovers and exhibition growers have stopped gardening.

“The (show) theme is ‘Flower Power,’ appropriate since growing of flowers and vegetables has helped us maintain our sanity for the past months during the pandemic,” said longtime society member Sharon Peterson, who helped organize the mum show.

Precautions will be taken to keep everyone safe and healthy.

“Masks are required and social distancing will be observed,” Peterson said.

Besides exhibition quality mums and creative flower arrangements, the society will offer blooming mum plants for sale.

Details and directions: www.sgaac.org .

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This week there’s plenty to keep gardeners busy. With no rain in the immediate forecast, remember to irrigate any new transplants.

* Weed, weed, weed! Get them before they flower and go to seed.

* April is the last chance to plant citrus trees such as dwarf orange, lemon and kumquat. These trees also look good in landscaping and provide fresh fruit in winter.

* Smell orange blossoms? Feed citrus trees with a low dose of balanced fertilizer (such as 10-10-10) during bloom to help set fruit. Keep an eye out for ants.

* Apply slow-release fertilizer to the lawn.

* Thoroughly clean debris from the bottom of outdoor ponds or fountains.

* Spring brings a flush of rapid growth, and that means your garden is really hungry. Feed shrubs and trees with a slow-release fertilizer. Or mulch with a 1-inch layer of compost.

* Azaleas and camellias looking a little yellow? If leaves are turning yellow between the veins, give them a boost with chelated iron.

* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.

* Pinch chrysanthemums back to 12 inches for fall flowers. Cut old stems to the ground.

* Mulch around plants to conserve moisture and control weeds.

* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, radishes and squash.

* Plant onion sets.

* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias.

* Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.

* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.

* Mid to late April is about the last chance to plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.

* Transplant lettuce seedlings. Choose varieties that mature quickly such as loose leaf.

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