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So many cool events this weekend

Water-wise gardening, lavender crafts, fascinating insects and a river habitat celebration

Sacramento Digs Gardening
BY Kathy Morrison PUBLISHED SEP 26, 2024

Ever held a walking stick insect? This Saturday afternoon the public can visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology, where this Ramulus nematodes (Great thin stick insect) and others like it live. And yes, it's an arthropod. Kathy Morrison

Here at Sacramento Digs Gardening, we do our best to keep up on gardening and nature-related events that readers would like to know about or attend. Our calendar in the newsletter has just 10 spots for the soonest events, but if you click on the Calendar button on our home page, you will see more further out.

This coming weekend, Sept. 28-29, is so packed with early fall events that we don't have room or time for individual posts on them. So this post aims to catch up with a few that might not be obvious.

-- Water Wise Garden Showcase, presented by the City of Sacramento, 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 28.

This is a free event at the Department of Utilities main campus, 1395 35th Ave., Sacramento. The city plans to feature more than a dozen gardening professionals, irrigation experts and landscape designers, as well as information about the city’s water-saving rebates and short educational talks.

Attendees can also enter a raffle for a chance to win a variety of water-saving tools and resources, including smart irrigation controllers and discounted landscape consultations.

Sacramento County master gardeners and California Native Plant Society members will be among the gardening experts available for questions and advice.

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1294809431730199

-- Fall Craft Fair, Wilton Family Lavender Farm. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28-29.

This family-friendly event at the lavender farm, 9050 Tavernor Road in Wilton, features two days of crafts, gifts, live music and an array of food trucks. This is a working farm and not open to the public all year, so this event is an excellent opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the area. Free admission. Licensed service animals only; no pets.

Information on the farm and Fall Craft Fair: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068918653557 and https://www.wiltonfamilylavenderfarm.com/

-- Open House, Bohart Museum of Entomology, 1-4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28.

Ever visited the bugs (and other creatures) at the Bohart? This fascinating museum is on the UC Davis campus, in the Academic Surge Building, Room 1124, 455 Crocker Lane.

The museum holds periodic open house events; this is the first one of the fall. The theme for this event is "Museum ABCs: Arthropods, Bohart and Collecting." Arthropods are animals with hard exoskeletons and jointed appendages, ranging from scorpions, mosquitoes and lady beetles to crabs, shrimp and lobsters.

Free admission and free weekend parking. More information: https://bohart.ucdavis.edu/

-- Family Fall Festival, presented by the Save the American River Association, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29.

This free event will be held at Stirling Park Drive and Rod Beaudry Drive (near the entrance of River Bend Park), Sacramento. The organizers say: "Learn about wildlife and critters, our California Pony Express, the historic William Alexander Leidesdorff Ranch and the Nisenan Indians native to the area." The Effie Yeaw Nature Center folks will be on site, too.

The event promises live music, nature walks (wear closed-toe shoes), educational speakers, a live bird show, arts and crafts, kids entertainment, and food and drink.

For more information on SARA and the event: https://www.sarariverwatch.org/events

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Dodge those raindrops and get things done! Your garden needs you.

* Start your spring (and summer) garden. 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.

* This is the last chance to spray fruit trees before they bloom. Treat peach and nectarine trees with copper-based fungicide. Spray apricot trees at bud swell to prevent brown rot. Apply horticultural oil to control scale, mites and aphids on fruit trees soon after a rain. But remember: Oils need at least 24 hours to dry to be effective. Don’t spray during foggy weather or when rain is forecast.

* Feed spring-blooming shrubs and fall-planted perennials with slow-release fertilizer. Feed mature trees and shrubs after spring growth starts.

* Remove aphids from blooming bulbs with a strong spray of water or insecticidal soap.

* Fertilize strawberries and asparagus.

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