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Green Acres' Elk Grove greenhouse is packed with indoor favorites.
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What do you do when it’s too hot to garden outside? Garden inside!
Houseplants are having their spotlight moment with newbie indoor gardeners gravitating towards everything from anthuriums to ZZ Plants.
Check out this indoor jungle!
Green Acres Nursery & Supply
’s Elk Grove store is hosting an “Extraordinary Houseplant Event” on Saturday, Aug. 13. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., find the houseplant advice you need – along with some beautiful exotic plants. Admission and parking are free.
“Mark your calendar, grab your friends, and join us for a fun event as we showcase your favorites and unique varieties that will interest plant lovers of all experience levels!” says Green Acres staff. “Take advantage of event-day specials. Shop our Home+Grown Collection and select something special for yourself and a friend. … Get answers to your questions from our team of houseplant gurus.”
Besides the advice and specials, get your hands dirty, too. The event includes a DIY succulent and petite houseplant pot-up station. Or check out the “Tillandsia Bar” and create your own Air Plant display.
And because this is August, there will be frozen refreshments.
I SCREAM Yogurt
will be serving frozen yogurt in the afternoon.
Green Acres is located at 9220 E. Stockton Blvd., Elk Grove.
Details:
www.idiggreenacres.com
or call 916-714-5600.
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Get out early to enjoy those nice mornings. There’s plenty to keep gardeners busy:
* Warm weather brings rapid growth in the vegetable garden, with tomatoes and squash enjoying the heat. Deep-water, then feed with a balanced fertilizer. Bone meal or rock phosphate can spur the bloom cycle and help set fruit.
* Generally, tomatoes need deep watering two to three times a week, but don’t let them dry out completely. Inconsistent soil moisture can encourage blossom-end rot.
* It’s not too late to transplant tomatoes, peppers or eggplant.
* From seed, plant corn, melons, pumpkins, radishes, squash and sunflowers.
* Plant basil to go with your tomatoes.
* Transplant summer annuals such as petunias, marigolds and zinnias.
* It’s also a good time to transplant perennial flowers including astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia, salvia and verbena.
* Feed camellias, azaleas and other acid-loving plants. Mulch to conserve moisture and reduce heat stress.
* Cut back Shasta daisies after flowering to encourage a second bloom in the fall.
* Trim off dead flowers from rose bushes to keep them blooming through the summer. Roses also benefit from deep watering and feeding now. A top dressing of aged compost will keep them happy. It feeds as well as keeps roots moist.
* Pinch back chrysanthemums for bushier plants with many more flowers in September.
* Tie up vines and stake tall plants such as gladiolus and lilies. That gives their heavy flowers some support.
* Dig and divide crowded bulbs after the tops have died down.
* Feed summer flowers with a slow-release fertilizer.
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