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Learn about fruit trees, other winter garden tasks



Fruit trees, like this budding peach tree, need attention in winter so they
produce a good crop. (Photo: Kathy Morrison)
Two free classes offered in Davis this weekend
Got plans for the three-day weekend? (Oh, yeah, garden work.) But if you'd also like to pick up some useful gardening knowledge, or refresh what you already know, the Yolo County master gardeners offer two free classes on late winter gardening.

On Saturday, Feb. 15, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., fruit tree care will be the topic. If you want a good summer crop, care and preparation now will go a long way toward ensuring that. Two of the Yolo master gardeners will talk about pruning, irrigation, fertilizing, common fruit tree diseases, and pests (and how to control them).

The class will be held at Grace Garden, United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Road in Davis. There will be an optional walk in the orchard afterwards.

On Sunday the Yolo master gardeners will hold their monthly Gardening Forum, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Small Conference Room of the Mary L. Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St., Davis. Bring questions for the master gardeners, and also learn about winter project planning, landscape maintenance, irrigation and mulching, and what to plant now.

For information on Gardening Forums, go to
www.yolocountylibrary.org . All the Yolo County master gardener events are at yolomg.ucanr.edu

-- Kathy Morrison

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Garden Checklist for week of Feb. 9

Be careful walking or working in wet soil; it compacts easily.

* Keep the irrigation turned off; the ground is plenty wet with more rain on the way.

* 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 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.

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