New! Chopped veggies, peanuts provide plenty of crunch
Chance to dry out after a very soggy two weeks
Elk Grove's destination garden store offers big discounts on pottery, fountains, garden art and plants
Free class offered through City of Roseville program
Here's your chance to help this student-run group connect more people with nature
Succession planting allows for a more consistent flow of home-grown food
Annual census of feathered friends starts Friday
New! Citrus salsa with fresh orange, mandarin, kumquat and lime
More wintry weather on tap; be ready for frost and rain
After heavy rain, more winter weather is on the way to Sacramento, foothills
Arboretum and Public Garden included in this family-friendly event
Sacramento and Placer experts available to answer questions
Small investments, big yields for gardeners with patience
Learn how to grow more -- and save more, too
New! Vegan soup is loaded with vegetables and spices
After dry January, February gets off to soggy start
ReScape invites participants to share their landscape dilemmas (and send photos)
Farm and Garden Club hosts speaker at monthly meeting
Placer County master gardeners offer free workshop on bare-root fruit trees
Urban farm in South Oak Park hosts Winter Clearance Sale
NorCal Home & Landscape Expo opens Friday
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Garden Checklist for week of Feb. 16
Take advantage of this nice weather. There’s plenty to do as your garden starts to switch into high gear for spring growth.
* This is the last chance to spray fruit trees before their buds open. Treat peach and nectarine trees with copper-based fungicide. Spray apricot trees at bud swell to prevent brown rot. Apply horticultural oil to control scale, mites and aphids on fruit trees.
* Check soil moisture before resuming irrigation. Most likely, your soil is still pretty damp.
* Feed spring-blooming shrubs and fall-planted perennials with slow-release fertilizer. Feed mature trees and shrubs after spring growth starts.
* 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 cauliflower – as well as lettuce (both loose leaf and head).
* Indoors, start peppers, tomatoes and eggplant from seed.
* Plant artichokes, asparagus and horseradish from root divisions.
* Plant potatoes from tubers and onions from sets (small bulbs). The onions will sprout quickly and can be used as green onions in March.
* From seed, plant beets, chard, lettuce, mustard, peas, radishes and turnips.
* Annuals are showing up in nurseries, but wait until the weather warms up a bit before planting. Instead, set out flowering perennials such as columbine and delphinium.
* Plant summer-flowering bulbs including cannas, calla lilies and gladiolus.