Two-hour class Saturday at Community Garden and Learning Center
This vast stretch of lettuce and other greens is grown via hydroponic techniques at the Gotham Greens farm site west of Davis. But a gardener needn't have a space this size to use hydroponics to grow food such as strawberries, tomatoes or peppers. Kathy Morrison
When it comes right down to it, plants don't even need soil to grow, as long as they get water, light and nutrients.
That's the science behind hydroponics, which is the cultivation of plants in a nutrient-rich solution.
The Elk Grove Community Garden and Learning Center this Saturday, June 1, will host "Hydroponics 101," a free class to be taught by Eric Goegen, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Gardeners interested in the workshop are asked to RSVP to (916) 818-9108, but walk-ins are welcome. No fee is charged, although donations of canned goods for the Elk Grove Food Bank are appreciated.
The Elk Grove Community Garden is located at 10025 Hampton Oak Drive. For more information on the garden and events there, go to https://elkgrovecommunitygarden.org/
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* Keep your vegetable garden watered, mulched and weeded. Water before 8 a.m. to reduce the chance of fungal infection and to conserve moisture.
* Feed vegetable plants bone meal, rock phosphate or other fertilizers high in phosphate to stimulate more blooms and fruiting. (But wait until daily high temperatures drop out of the 100s.)
* Don’t let tomatoes wilt or dry out completely. Give tomatoes a deep watering two to three times a week.
* Harvest vegetables promptly to encourage plants to produce more. Squash especially tends to grow rapidly in hot weather. Keep an eye on zucchini.
* Pinch back chrysanthemums for bushy plants and more flowers in September.
* Remove spent flowers from roses, daylilies and other bloomers as they finish flowering.
* Pinch off blooms from basil so the plant will grow more leaves.
* Cut back lavender after flowering to promote a second bloom.
* It's not too late to add a splash of color. Plant petunias, snapdragons, zinnias and marigolds.
* From seed, plant corn, pumpkins, radishes, winter squash and sunflowers.