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Get inspired to create your own permaculture


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Sacramento Digs Gardening
PUBLISHED MAY 20, 2019
This is a view of Jan Spencer's own backyard with a corner of the sun room
to the left. The g reen house and outdoor work area in the distance.
(Photo courtesy suburbanpermaculture.org)


Learn how your home and garden can be 'greener'


Can you turn your suburban house and backyard into an efficient green mini-farm, feeding your family while helping the environment?

Learn how from expert Jan Spencer. He'll speak on "Suburban Permaculture," a special presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the Ooley Theatre, 2007 28th St., Sacramento.

Presented by Green Restaurants Alliance Sacramento, this inspirational evening will tackle how communities can create green and resilient homes and neighborhoods to help save the environment one house at a time.

Jan Spencer will speak Thursday at
the Ooley Theater in Sacramento.
Spencer, who lives in Eugene, Ore., is a suburban permaculture expert. In the past 16 years, he's transformed his house on a 1/4-acre lot into a passive workforce, growing food, producing solar energy, gathering rainwater and reducing waste. Learn how Spencer did this and get ideas that can be used in your home and garden.

GRA Sacramento is dedicated to growing a sustainable food community in the Farm-to-Fork Capital. Its programs include turning restaurant waste into compost for local organic gardens and recycling wine corks.

Tickets for "Suburban Permaculture" are $10 suggested donation.

Details and tickets: www.GRASacramento.org .

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Garden Checklist for week of May 11

Make the most of the lower temperatures early in the week. We’ll be back in the 80s by Thursday.

* 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. (You also can 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.

* Add mulch to the garden to maintain moisture. Mulch also cuts down on weeds. But don’t let it mound around the stems or trunks of trees or shrubs. Leave about a 6-inch-to-1-foot circle to avoid crown rot or other problems.

* Remember to weed! Pull those nasties before they set seed.

* Water early in the day and keep seedlings evenly moist.

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