Yolo County master gardeners' monthly talk looks to fall
Planting typically begins in October, but it's good to know ahead of time the types of garlic that are right for the region. Kathy Morrison
If you're up on your Greek myths, you'll remember that Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest, and Zeus. Persephone was abducted by Hades, god of the underworld, who after Zeus' intervention permitted her to live "up top" two-thirds of the year, and one-third with him. Demeter is happy and tends the havest, so the story goes, while her daughter is present, but shuts everything down during those months when she's gone.
When our daylight drops below 10 hours per day, we enter what horticulture folks have dubbed the "Persephone Period." In the Sacramento area this year, that period begins on Nov. 19. Daylight will go back above 10 hours on Jan. 22, 2025.
This limitation of daylight may affect human mood and activities somewhat, but it has a profound effect on our plants, especially edibles. Explaining that effect is part of the monthly Kitchen Garden Chat coming this Saturday online with the Yolo County master gardeners.
Master gardener Treva Valentine will also discuss seed saving and tips for garlic ordering. (Many popular varieties sell out, so it's good to have a couple of options.)
The one-hour Zoom workshop begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7. It is open to all interested gardeners. The Zoom link is: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/98028723763
For more on Yolo master gardener activties, go to https://yolomg.ucanr.edu/
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Garden Checklist for week of Sept. 8
Temperatures are headed down to normal. The rest of the month kicks off fall planting season:
* Harvest tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons and eggplant.
* Compost annuals and vegetable crops that have finished producing.
* Cultivate and add compost to the soil to replenish its nutrients for fall and winter vegetables and flowers.
* Fertilize deciduous fruit trees.
* Plant onions, lettuce, peas, radishes, turnips, beets, carrots, bok choy, spinach and potatoes directly into the vegetable beds.
* Transplant cabbage, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower as well as lettuce seedlings.
* Sow seeds of California poppies, clarkia and African daisies.
* Transplant cool-weather annuals such as pansies, violas, fairy primroses, calendulas, stocks and snapdragons.
* Divide and replant bulbs, rhizomes and perennials.
* Dig up and divide daylilies as they complete their bloom cycle.
* Divide and transplant peonies that have become overcrowded. Replant with “eyes” about an inch below the soil surface.
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