El Dorado County master gardeners offer advice for growing vegetables, fruit, flowers and more at higher elevations.
Memorial Day Weekend event features thousands of plants on sale at Elk Grove nursery
New! Savory cherry sauce with sweet onions goes great with pork, chicken
Get ready for warm, sunny and breezy days ahead
Layer of wood chips, straw or leaves helps plants cope with summer temperatures
Free event Sunday includes plant sale, botanist's visit
Local clubs offer lots of garden gear plus much more at huge yard sale
Sacramento neighborhood hosts garden tour, plant sale
Carmichael Cactus and Succulent Society hosts 46th annual show and sale
New! Spring asparagus blends well with green garlic
Spring growth gets heat check as Sacramento hits 90-plus
Find bargain prices on 11,000 water-wise perennials, shrubs, trees, succulents, natives and more.
Placer, El Dorado master gardeners also welcome visitors to their sites
Six stunning private gardens, boutique to be open for popular event
Plenty of compact varieties available to highest bidders
Sacramento Chrysanthemum Society offers 1,000 plants in 85-plus varieties
NEW! Fresh strawberry-orange salsa with green onions
Chilly storm throws another curve into spring weather
Nation's oldest club of its kind continues tradition
Sunday event also features plant and seed swap, vendors and kid-oriented activities
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Garden Checklist for week of Dec. 22
* Between showers this week, check on your garden’s welfare. Clean up fallen branches and other debris. Don’t let water pool near foundations.
* When working (or just walking) in the garden, be careful of soggy ground; it can compact easily. Soggy soil also will rot newly planted bulbs. Wait until the soil is moist but not dripping wet.
* Rake leaves away from storm drains and gutters. Recycle those leaves as mulch or add to compost.
* Brighten the holidays with winter bloomers such as poinsettias, amaryllis and cyclamen indoors, and Iceland poppies, calendulas, pansies and primroses outdoors.
* Keep poinsettias in a sunny, warm location; bring them inside at night or if there’s rain. (They don’t like cold, wet weather.)
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while they’re dormant.
* Clean and sharpen garden tools before storing for the winter.
* Rake and remove dead leaves and stems from dormant perennials.
* Seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Once soil dries out a little, trees and shrubs can be planted now, especially bare-root varieties such as fruit trees or rose bushes. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from winter rains.
* Plant bare-root berries, kiwifruit, grapes, artichokes, horseradish and rhubarb.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
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