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Solid Gold: National award for Arrington


Sac Digs Gardening’s co-creator honored by Garden Writers Association
Debbie Arrington, co-creator of Sacramento Digs Gardening, was honored by the Garden Writers Association with the 2018 Gold Award for newspaper writing, top honors in the GWA’s annual media awards.
The GWA honors are the only national media awards for garden communicators. The Gold Award for Best Newspaper Writing was announced Aug. 16 at the association’s annual conference in Chicago. Arrington had previously won the 2018 GWA Silver Award for an article appearing in a newspaper with more than 20,000 circulation for her article, “New Flavors Sprout from Nearby Seed Experiments,” which appeared Sept. 23 in The Sacramento Bee.
Other 2018 Gold Award winners included: “Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates,” by John Whitman as Best Book; "On Ants, Aphids and Mutualism" by Helen Battersby as Best Digital Writing; and “The Conscientious Gardener: Three-Part Series on The Monarch” by Kylee Baumle as Best Magazine Writing,

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Garden Checklist for week of April 21

This week there’s plenty to keep gardeners busy. With no rain in the immediate forecast, remember to irrigate any new transplants.

* Weed, weed, weed! Get them before they flower and go to seed.

* April is the last chance to plant citrus trees such as dwarf orange, lemon and kumquat. These trees also look good in landscaping and provide fresh fruit in winter.

* Smell orange blossoms? Feed citrus trees with a low dose of balanced fertilizer (such as 10-10-10) during bloom to help set fruit. Keep an eye out for ants.

* Apply slow-release fertilizer to the lawn.

* Thoroughly clean debris from the bottom of outdoor ponds or fountains.

* Spring brings a flush of rapid growth, and that means your garden is really hungry. Feed shrubs and trees with a slow-release fertilizer. Or mulch with a 1-inch layer of compost.

* Azaleas and camellias looking a little yellow? If leaves are turning yellow between the veins, give them a boost with chelated iron.

* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.

* Pinch chrysanthemums back to 12 inches for fall flowers. Cut old stems to the ground.

* Mulch around plants to conserve moisture and control weeds.

* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, radishes and squash.

* Plant onion sets.

* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias.

* Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.

* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.

* Mid to late April is about the last chance to plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.

* Transplant lettuce seedlings. Choose varieties that mature quickly such as loose leaf.

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