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Amador Flower Farm hosts Fall Fun Days


Hundreds of types of daylilies surround centuries-old valley oaks at Amador Flower Farm. (Photos: Debbie Arrington)
Weekend event features free corn and hay bale mazes, pumpkins, tours and lots of daylilies


During Farm to Fork Week, visit a farm dedicated to flowers.

With free tram tours, mazes and more, Amador Flower Farm hosts its annual Fall Fun Days Festival, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29 and 30. Admission and parking are free.

Nestled in Amador wine country, the flower farm is a destination nursery, featuring more than 1,200 varieties of daylilies. Growing in long rows, the flowers fill vast fields over the rolling hillsides and around massive valley oaks.

Demonstration gardens feature many other kinds of plants suited to Sacramento and foothill landscapes. Picnic areas invite visitors to relax and enjoy the wine country vistas.

During Fun Days, the farm starts its fall holiday season with a hay bale maze for little kids, a corn maze for kids of all ages and an amazing assortment of pumpkins. Youngsters also will enjoy visiting with the farm's baby animals.
This beauty is among the many varieties of daylilies available.

For gardeners, there will be plenty of tips on growing daylilies (and bargains, too). October is an excellent time to divide and plant these easy-care, drought-tolerant perennials. Experts will be on hand to offer advice on fall gardening.

Besides acres of flowers, the farm features a full nursery and garden gift shop.

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Garden Checklist for week of Sept. 15

Make the most of the cool break this week – and get things done. Your garden needs you!

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

* Keep harvesting tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons and eggplant.

* 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.

* 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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