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Ready or not, here come the plant sales

Sacramento Digs Gardening
BY Kathy Morrison PUBLISHED APR 3, 2019

Find peppers and other vegetables, plus ornamentals, cactus and succulents

at the Elk Grove Community Garden's sale Saturday. (Photo courtesy

Elk Grove Community Garden)

Fundraisers this weekend from Fair Oaks to Elk Grove to Davis

Fundraising plant sales really get going in April. Whether or not the weather allows some planting this weekend, check out the offerings and find just the right veggies or ornamentals. These sales help support gardening in Sacramento-area communities, too.

Here are four sales coming up April 6, rain or shine. They're nicely scattered through the region, too, so one is bound to be nearby:

-- The Fair Oaks Community Garden will hold its sale 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Find starter vegetables and herbs at the perfect time for spring planting. All plants are donated and proceeds benefit the Fair Oaks Community Garden. Sale is located at Fair Oaks Park at the rear parking lot near the Horticulture Center, 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd.

-- The Elk Grove Community Garden annual plant sale will run 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Offerings will include vegetables, herbs, ornamentals, cactus and succulents. The garden is at 10025 Hampton Oak Drive, Elk Grove.

-- The spring sale by the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Elderberry Farms Native Plant Nursery, 2140 Chase Drive, Rancho Cordova, on the American River Parkway at Soil Born Farms. Find organic vegetable and flower starts, culinary and medicinal herbs, succulents and of course California native plants. www.sacvalleycnps.org/fairsevents/plantsale

The UC Davis Arboretum nursery offers a wide range of plants at its sales.
(Photo: Kathy Morrison)

-- The second sale of the season at the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Find perennials for sun or shade, California natives that do well in our climate, and even some trees. Refreshments, live music, children's activities. Bring your questions to the Master Gardeners Table. 10 percent off prices for members. Membership can be purchased at the door. Future sales will be on April 27 and May 11. Garrod Drive, across from the UC Davis Vet School. arboretum.ucdavis.edu

More sales are ahead, too. The Sacramento Historic City Cemetery rose sale will be April 13-14, for example, and the UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County sale is set for April 20 at the Sherwood Demonstration Garden in Placerville.

Many of the garden clubs that make Sacramento's Shepard Garden and Arts Center their home have sales coming up, too, from April 6-7 ( African violets ) to May 11 (geraniums and chrysanthemums). In between will be irises (April 20-21) and cactus/succulents (May 4-5). Sacramento Digs Gardening will have all the information on these sales as they get closer. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the Garden Calendar for gardening events around the region.

-- Kathy Morrison

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Get out early in the morning and monitor your garden’s moisture needs. Deep water and add temporary shade structures for plants that are feeling a little burned. In particular, protect developing peppers and eggplant.

* Put off fertilization until this heat passes; plants need to concentrate on hydration instead of growth.

* Harvest tomatoes, beans, squash, pepper and eggplants to prompt plants to keep producing. Give your plants a deep watering twice a week, more if planted in containers.

* Watch out for caterpillars and hornworms in the vegetable garden. They can strip a plant bare in one day. Pick them off plants by hand in early morning or late afternoon.

* Mulch can be your garden’s best friend – it conserves moisture while blocking out weeds. But don’t let mulch mound around stalks, stems or trunks. That can promote rot.

* Pinch off dead flowers from perennials and annuals to lengthen their summer bloom.

* Pick up after your fruit trees. Clean up debris and dropped fruit; this cuts down on insects and prevents the spread of brown rot.

* Prepare for a fall full of flowers by paying a little extra attention to your garden. Cut off spent blooms from roses, annuals and perennials. Roses will rebloom about six to eight weeks after deadheading.

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