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Recycle your Christmas tree into mulch


If your Christmas tree has lost most of its just-bought freshness, it's time to recycle it. (Photo courtesy The Plant Foundry)

Sacramento area offers several drop-off spots

Is your Christmas tree ready to be recycled?

Depending on freshness and other conditions, cut trees can dry out in a hurry, becoming more fire danger than decoration. If your fir is shedding needles in abundance, it's time for it to move on.

Sacramento offers tree recycling opportunities that turn discarded Christmas trees into wood mulch for city parks. SMUD also offers wood chips to its residential utility customers.

Make sure to remove all tinsel, stands and decorations. Sacramento's tree recycling program does accept flocked trees.

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For week of Sept. 24:

This week our weather will be just right for fall gardening. What are you waiting for?

* Now is the time to plant for fall. The warm soil will get these veggies off to a fast start.

* Keep harvesting tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons and eggplant. Tomatoes may ripen faster off the vine and sitting on the kitchen counter.

* Compost annuals and vegetable crops that have finished producing.

* Cultivate and add compost to the soil to replenish its nutrients for fall and winter vegetables and flowers.

* Fertilize deciduous fruit trees.

* Plant onions, lettuce, peas, radishes, turnips, beets, carrots, bok choy, spinach and potatoes directly into the vegetable beds.

* Transplant cabbage, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower as well as lettuce seedlings.

* Sow seeds of California poppies, clarkia and African daisies.

* Transplant cool-weather annuals such as pansies, violas, fairy primroses, calendulas, stocks and snapdragons.

* Divide and replant bulbs, rhizomes and perennials. That includes bearded iris; if they haven’t bloomed in three years, it’s time to dig them up and divide their rhizomes.

* Dig up and divide daylilies as they complete their bloom cycle.

* Divide and transplant peonies that have become overcrowded. Replant with “eyes” about an inch below the soil surface.

* Late September is ideal for sowing a new lawn or re-seeding bare spots.

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