Expect spring to get off to a soggy start, weather service says
Visit a garden of natives as the green season gets going
Award-winning garden writer, author helped solve backyard mysteries
New Roseville nursery and garden store will be packed with activities March 18
Sacramento Perennial Plant Club hosts vendors and 'The Plant Lady' on Saturday
Triple-orange sugar cookies with or without orange glaze
Sacramento gets soaked (again) as we ‘spring’ forward
Workshop focuses on how plant-based diet can promote better health
Popular Saturday events washed out by weather
Sacramento region could get 4-plus inches of rain, wind gusts up to 50 mph
First of the season's four sales features huge selection of water-wise plants
Find plants and much more at this popular event
Flavorful recipe can be a vegetarian main or lively side dish
March arrives with more cold, damp weather
Weather service says 'expect substantial disruptions to daily life'
Online sale of California natives begins Saturday
Placer County master gardeners offer free pollinator workshop
Overnight lows could reach 29 degrees, kill crops and damage plumbing
Despite winter weather, weekend event should feature hundreds of flowers
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Garden Checklist for week of Sept. 22
Why plant now? Plants like it: Warm soil is great for planting and rapid root development.
* Keep harvesting tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons and eggplant. Some tomatoes and peppers may stretch their harvest into October or November.
* Compost annuals and vegetable crops that have finished producing. If you see no new fruit on your tomatoes, pull them out.
* 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.
* Late September is ideal for sowing a new lawn or re-seeding bare spots.
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