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Fun family events in Roseville, Placerville this Saturday


The Japanese garden is one of the showpieces of the Sherwood Demonstration Garden in Placerville. (Photo courtesy
Master Gardeners of El Dorado County)
Tour gardens, safely view the sun or catch the buzz on birds and bugs

The weather should be lovely for events this weekend, and there are some terrific ones for gardeners and their families.

In Placerville on Saturday, Feb. 1, the UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado open their Sherwood Demonstration Garden for a free public tour. The Sherwood garden, at the El Dorado Center of Folsom Lake College, has 16 individual demonstration gardens, including a butterfly garden, an orchard, a rock garden and a children's garden.  The tour starts promptly at 9 a.m.

Anyone who takes the tour may wish to stick around for safe solar viewing through the telescopes at the Community Observatory, which is next to the Sherwood garden. The telescopes will be available from 10 a.m. to noon. Admission is free.

Parking is $2 seven days a week at the El Dorado Center, 6699 Campus Drive in Placerville. Exact change is required. No dogs are allowed. For more information on the garden and the El Dorado County master gardener programs, go to
mgeldorado.ucanr.edu .

Kids can meet creepy-crawlies and more at the "Bird and Bug Bonanza"
on Saturday in Roseville. (Photo courtesy City of Roseville)
In Roseville, meanwhile, the Placer County master gardeners will join the City of Roseville in presenting "Bird and Bug Bonanza" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Other experts on hand will be from the Bohart Museum of Entomology, Gold Country Wildlife Rescue, California Master Beekeepers, Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District, the Department of Pesticide Regulation and the City of Roseville Stormwater Program.

The free event will include games and activities for the whole family, all part of getting up close and personal with birds and insects, including important pollinators. As a special offering, for a $10 materials fee, participants can build a birdhouse for backyard birds (while supplies last).

"Bird and Bug Bonanza" will be held at the Roseville Utility Exploration Center, 1501 Pleasant Grove Blvd., Roseville. Go to roseville.ca.us for other events on the 2020 calendar.

For information on the Placer County master gardener programs, visit http://pcmg.ucanr.org/ .

-- Kathy Morrison




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Garden Checklist for week of April 20

Before possible showers at the end of the week, take advantage of all this nice sunshine – and get to work!

* Set out tomato, pepper and eggplant transplants.

* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, 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.

* Plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.

* Transplant lettuce and cabbage seedlings.

* 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.

* 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.

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

* Start thinning fruit that's formed on apple and stone fruit trees -- you'll get larger fruit at harvest (and avoid limb breakage) if some is thinned now. The UC recommendation is to thin fruit when it is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. Peaches and nectarines should be thinned to about 6 inches apart; smaller fruit such as plums and pluots can be about 4 inches apart. Apricots can be left at 3 inches apart. Apples and pears should be thinned to one fruit per cluster of flowers, 6 to 8 inches apart.

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

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

* Weed, weed, weed! Don’t let unwanted plants go to seed.

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