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Auburn Fall Home Show filled with ideas


The Auburn Home Show includes Landscapers Meadow, which offers many inspiring ideas for gardeners and landscapers. (Photo courtesy Auburn Home Shows)

Senior discount on Friday; get advice from master gardeners


With more than 1,000 exhibits, this large show features hundreds of vendors. A special highlight is the Placer Harvest Fest with 15 vendors offering Placer-grown farm-fresh products such as homemade pies, baked goods, pesto, olive oil, jams and jellies, citrus, apples, pears and more.

Earlene Eisley of Eisley’s Nursery will lead canning demonstrations, including how to make homemade applesauce and barbecue sauce. In addition, more than a dozen other cooking demonstrations are planned.

Placer County master gardeners will be on hand to offer advice. Pick up a copy of their new 2020 Garden Guide and Calendar.

Landscapers Meadow showcases outdoor designs and plants in a parklike setting. See the Tiny House Village and enter to win your own tiny house, valued at $50,000.

Fall Home Show hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 ; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 ; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29. Admission is $8; children age 12 and younger admitted free. Seniors age 60 and older get $3 admission on Friday only. First responders, active and retired military are admitted free with ID. Parking: $6.

Gold Country Fairgrounds is located at 1273 High St. , Auburn.

- Debbie Arrington

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* 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.

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