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Sacred Heart Holiday Home tour coming soon


This 44th Street home will be featured during the 2019 Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour. (Courtesy Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour)

Tickets are now on sale for Fabulous Forties celebration

Tickets are now on sale for one of Sacramento’s biggest and most beloved holiday events – the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour.

Now in its 46th year, this three-day tour annually attracts more than 5,000 patrons, who stroll through the Fabulous Forties to see houses professionally decked out in their Christmas best.

From Dec. 6 through 8, five distinctive homes will be showcased, each with an individual theme ranging from “Coastal Christmas” to “More the Merrier.”

Tickets ($30) are available online and through some select East Sacramento businesses. (See website for list.) Proceeds go toward scholarships for students to attend Sacred Heart Parish School as well as school programs.

This is more than a home tour; it's a community kickoff for the holiday season. A Champagne and Bubbles bar will offer fizzy refreshments in the late afternoon at the school. Sacred Heart also hosts a boutique with vendors offering Sacramento-made products and treats. The boutique and bubbles bar are open free to the public.

Tour hours are noon-8 p.m. Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Dec. 7 and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 8. For advance tickets and more details:
www.sacredhearthometour.com . On tour days, tickets will be available at Sacred Heart Parish School, 856 39th St., and the first home on the tour, 1370 46th St.

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Put off big chores and planting until later in the week when the weather is cooler. In the meantime, remember to stay hydrated – advice for both you and your garden.

* Keep your vegetable garden watered, mulched and weeded. Water before 8 a.m. to reduce the chance of fungal infection and to conserve moisture.

* Water, then fertilize vegetables and blooming annuals, perennials and shrubs to give them a boost. Feeding flowering plants every other week will extend their bloom.

* Give vegetable plants bone meal or other fertilizers high in phosphate to stimulate more blooms and fruiting.

* Add some summer color. Plant petunias, snapdragons, zinnias and marigolds.

* From seed, plant corn, pumpkins, radishes, winter squash and sunflowers. Plant Halloween pumpkins now.

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* Remove spent flowers from roses, daylilies and other bloomers as they finish flowering.

* Pinch off blooms from basil so the plant will grow more leaves.

* Cut back lavender after flowering to promote a second bloom.

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