After dry January, February gets off to soggy start
ReScape invites participants to share their landscape dilemmas (and send photos)
Farm and Garden Club hosts speaker at monthly meeting
Placer County master gardeners offer free workshop on bare-root fruit trees
Urban farm in South Oak Park hosts Winter Clearance Sale
NorCal Home & Landscape Expo opens Friday
New! Cabbage rolls stuffed with rice pilaf, mushrooms, raisins and lemon
Frosty and (maybe) damp forecast reminds Sacramento gardeners it’s still winter
Sacramento gardener creates notebook to make detailed record-keeping simpler
Three events scheduled to help boost campus landscape
Three local events invite gardeners to swap seeds; one includes plants
That's the last day to put green waste in the street for pick-up
Add to your indoor jungle and knowledge with three workshops
Blood oranges and navels with a lavender-lemon syrup
Chilly mornings (and frost danger) continue for Sacramento area
Most plants survived, including hundreds headed for Sacramento
Sunday tour is free but requires registration
Sacramento's 'rose man' shares how Lake Shrine and its World Peace Rose Garden made it through the firestorm
El Dorado County master gardeners offer special workshop on rose care
Sacramento-area rose clubs organize fundraiser to help Tom Carruth
New! Meyer lemon squares with candied almond crust
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Garden Checklist for week of Feb. 2
During this stormy week, let the rain soak in while making plans for all the things you’re going to plant soon:
* During rainy weather, turn off the sprinklers. After a good soaking from winter storms, lawns can go at least a week without sprinklers, according to irrigation experts. For an average California home, that week off from watering can save 800 gallons.
* February serves as a wake-up call to gardeners. This month, you can transplant or direct-seed several flowers, including snapdragon, candytuft, lilies, astilbe, larkspur, Shasta and painted daisies, stocks, bleeding heart and coral bells.
* In the vegetable garden, plant Jerusalem artichoke tubers, and strawberry and rhubarb roots.
* Transplant cabbage and its close cousins – broccoli, kale and Brussels sprouts – as well as lettuce (both loose leaf and head).
* Indoors, start peppers, tomatoes and eggplant from seed.
* Plant artichokes, asparagus and horseradish from root divisions.
* Plant potatoes from tubers and onions from sets (small bulbs). The onions will sprout quickly and can be used as green onions in March.
* From seed, plant beets, chard, lettuce, mustard, peas, radishes and turnips.
* Annuals are showing up in nurseries, but wait until the weather warms up a bit before planting. Instead, set out flowering perennials such as columbine and delphinium.
* Plant summer-flowering bulbs including cannas, calla lilies and gladiolus.
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