Placer County master gardeners offer free water-wise workshop at new demonstration garden
Coneflowers and other water-wise plants not only create a thriving, colorful landscape in summer but also attract pollinators. Debbie Arrington
You want a colorful flower-filled garden – but can you save water, too?
Yes! That’s the emphatic answer from the Placer County master gardeners. They’ll show how during a special in-person workshop at their new demonstration garden at Loomis Library.
At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 8, the master gardeners will present “Colorful Low-Water Plants,” a free workshop at the Loomis Library. The public is welcome to attend.
“Learn how to positively impact both humans plus pollinators by selecting low-water plants, placing them together in low water zones, plus irrigating with low-water amounts of water!” say the master gardeners.
No advance registration is necessary. The master gardeners will share advice on choosing the right low-water plants for your landscape as well as grouping plants according to sun and water needs. Also learn how to properly irrigate these unthirsty plants and keep them thriving through the long hot summer.
Loomis Library is located at 6050 Library Drive, Loomis.
Details and directions: https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/.
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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.