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Learn about fruit tree care in Woodland


If you want to grow perfect apples, or any other tree fruit, winter care
is a key to keeping the tree healthy. (Photo: Kathy Morrison)

Winter is best time to help your backyard orchard

Is your resolution to get your backyard orchard in shape? Or to start growing some of your own fruit?

Sign up now for this class on fruit tree care, offered by the Yolo County Health & Human Services Agency.

This free hands-on fruit tree care class will be held Saturday, Jan. 25, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Hanna & Herbert Bauer Memorial Community Garden, located at 137 N. Cottonwood St. in Woodland, behind the Bauer Building.

The interactive class will be taught by Bonnie Berman, a UC master gardener of Yolo County.

“Bonnie has a wealth of knowledge about fruit tree pruning, common fruit tree pests and how to control them, as well as tips on how to improve the lifespan of your fruit trees,” according to the class announcement. “Winter is the optimal time to care for your fruit trees to help them stay healthy and productive.”

Pre-registration for this class is required by Jan. 24; space is limited. To register, contact David Linebarger at:
530-666-8429 or david.linebarger@yolocounty.org .

“Participants are encouraged to dress for cold weather and wear shoes that can get dirty,” say the organizers. “In the event of steady rain, the class will be postponed or canceled.”

For more information, go here .

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Get outside early in the morning while temperatures are still cool – and get to work!

* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. Time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.

* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.

* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.

* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters. Transplant seedlings for many of the same flowers.

* Plant dahlia tubers.

* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.

* Keep an eye out for slugs, snails, earwigs and aphids that want to dine on tender new growth.

* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.

* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.

* Are birds picking your fruit off trees before it’s ripe? Try hanging strips of aluminum foil on tree branches. The shiny, dangling strips help deter birds from making themselves at home.

* As spring-flowering shrubs finish blooming, give them a little pruning to shape them, removing old and dead wood. Lightly trim azaleas, fuchsias and marguerites for bushier plants.

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