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Tue, Aug 13, 2024

Master gardeners offer advice every Saturday in Dixon

Solano County experts also will host two propagation workshops

Mon, Aug 12, 2024

Tri-County show puts emphasis on gardening

Home & garden event returns to Roseville's Roebbelen Center

Sun, Aug 11, 2024

Fresh figs, almonds and lemon combine in easy jam

New! Fresh fig-almond jam with no added pectin

Sat, Aug 10, 2024

Dig In: Garden checklist for week of Aug. 11

Settle in for some normal August warmth after temperature drop

Fri, Aug 09, 2024

Local farm-to-fork celebration has a French twist

Tickets on sale now for 2024 Village Feast, supporting food and farm education

Thu, Aug 08, 2024

Got zukes? Really big ones? Put 'em in a race

Rio Linda Grange presents Zucchini Festival on Saturday

Wed, Aug 07, 2024

Master gardener grows food, flowers instead of lawn

'Summer Strong Yard’ winner featured on local billboards in new awareness campaign

Tue, Aug 06, 2024

Zoom into ‘A Short History of Flowers’

In a national webinar, BBC’s Advolly Richmond shares backstories of our favorite plants

Mon, Aug 05, 2024

Lawn replacement workshop uses great example

Placer County master gardeners show how they turned unused turf into their new demonstration garden at Loomis Library

Sun, Aug 04, 2024

Marinate smaller zucchini for a cool summer salad

New! Lemon, garlic and herbs flavor this no-cook side dish

Sat, Aug 03, 2024

Dig In: Garden checklist for week of Aug. 4

After a record hot July, expect more triple digits (and hot August nights)

Fri, Aug 02, 2024

Gardeners can learn a lot at Harvest Day

From grape pruning to worm composting, hands-on 'mini-talks' provide wealth of information -- all free!

Wed, Jul 31, 2024

‘Ribbit’ is a hit (and sticking around a little longer)

Family-friendly exhibit extended at Sonoma Botanical Garden

Tue, Jul 30, 2024

Got a garden? Shop local at Harvest Day

Sacramento-area vendors offer their unique creations, plants at Saturday event

Mon, Jul 29, 2024

Harvest Day = Gardener’s Dream Day

Sacramento County master gardeners host area’s biggest free garden event of its kind

Sun, Jul 28, 2024

This old-fashioned dessert is berry, berry good

New! Spoon cake combines blackberries, blueberries

Sat, Jul 27, 2024

Dig In: Garden checklist for week of July 28

Make the most of cooler weather before another heat wave

Fri, Jul 26, 2024

Sacramento’s July heat averaged 101 degrees

Relief from triple-digit temperatures coming this weekend, but smoky skies may linger

Thu, Jul 25, 2024

Take a summer ramble through a garden of California natives

Patricia Carpenter welcomes visitors to her garden Sunday, Aug. 4

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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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