Placer County master gardeners will sell new information-packed calendar at Auburn Home and Harvest Fest
The Placer County master gardeners' 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar is on sale now. Find it at the master gardeners' booth at the Auburn show. Kathy Morrison
For gardeners, it’s never too early to think ahead.
Sunday starts a new season – fall – which is a perfect time to plant for winter and spring, while planning for next summer, too.
For all that planning and planting, pick up a copy of the just-released 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar, presented by the UC Master Gardeners of Placer County.
Packed with the results of the latest UC research, this award-winning annual publication is much more than handy day-by-day reminders. It’s jam-packed with year-round information on how to make your garden thrive – especially if you garden in our foothill communities or the Central Valley.
The 2025 theme: “Healthy Garden, Healthy You” with a special focus on food gardening.
“There has been a surge this year in people interested in growing their own food,” says master gardener Paula Agostini, co-chair of the group’s calendar committee. “This taps into that enthusiasm and can help North Californians, from beginners to experts, create, grow and harvest a healthy, sustainable garden.”
Many of these edible plants are also highly ornamental; they look good while they produce food.
Each month offers inspiration, too, such as “Creating a relaxing garden” (the theme for August) or “Home office plants benefit you and also your team at work” (November).
The Gardening Guide and Calendar is priced at $12 including tax or five for $55. (It makes a great gift.) It can be ordered via credit card online at: https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/2025_Calendar/.
Or pick up a copy in person this weekend at the Auburn Home and Harvest Fest at the Gold Country Fairgrounds. The master gardeners will staff a booth all three days of this huge home and garden show. They’ll answer garden questions as well as sell the new garden guide.
Hours are noon to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22.
Tickets are $5 general. Discounts are available for purchasing tickets in advance online. Parking is $10.
Gold Country Fairgrounds is located at 209 Fairgate Road, Auburn.
Tickets and more info: https://auburnshows.com/.
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We're into our typical summer weather pattern now. Get chores, especially watering, done early in the morning while it's cool.
* 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. Plant Halloween pumpkins now.
* Keep your vegetable garden watered, mulched and weeded. Water before 8 a.m. to reduce the chance of fungal infection and to conserve moisture.
* Water, then fertilize vegetables and blooming annuals, perennials and shrubs to give them a boost. Feeding flowering plants every other week will extend their bloom.
* Don’t let tomato plants 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.
* Harvest tomatoes, squash, peppers and eggplant. Prompt picking will help keep plants producing.
* 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.
* Give vegetable plants bone meal or other fertilizers high in phosphate to stimulate more blooms and fruiting.
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