Each month offers tips on keeping the garden and the gardeners healthy
The 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar by the Placer County master gardeners is on sale now online and next week in person at the Mountain Mandarin Festival. Courtesy UC master gardeners of Placer County
This is prime season for calendar purchases -- great for planning the year ahead, even better for holiday gifts.
The UC master gardeners of Placer County have put together a calendar that does much more than tell you the month and date. Their Gardening Guide and Calendar is packed with gardening tips, reminders and planting inspiration.
This 2025 version also explores the many ways that gardening keeps us healthy, from the physical activity to the mental benefit of working with the natural world. Specific topics include creating healthy compost, growing blueberries, the benefits of a garden of native plants, and much more.
"This calendar is suitable for climate zones from California's Central Valley to the foothills," the master gardeners note. The guidelines can be modified for colder or more moderate climates, they say. Cost is $12, or 5 for $55, a bulk discount.
How to find this invaluable calendar? In-person sales are offered this Sunday, Nov.17, at the Fowler Ranch Farmers Market in Lincoln, and next week during the Mountain Mandarin Festival, Nov. 22-24, held this year in Roseville's @theGrounds. (More on the festival will be on the blog soon.)
Shoppers also can order the publication online or via mail order; go to the Placer website for those forms.
Finally, a host of Placer retailers, including nurseries and hardware stores, carry the calendar for sale; prices maybe higher there. (There also are a few shops in El Dorado County that are selling it.) The list is linked off the website above.
For additional information on the Placer master gardeners' activities, go to https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/
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Garden Checklist for week of Dec. 8
Make the most of dry weather while we have it this week. Rain is returning.
* Rake leaves away from storm drains and gutters. Recycle those leaves as mulch or add to compost.
* It’s not too late to plant something. Seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Trees and shrubs can be planted now, especially bare-root varieties such as fruit trees or rose bushes. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from winter rains.
* Plant bare-root berries, kiwifruit, grapes, artichokes, horseradish and rhubarb.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Brighten the holidays with winter bloomers such as poinsettias, amaryllis, calendulas, Iceland poppies, pansies and primroses.
* Keep poinsettias in a sunny, warm location; bring them inside at night or if there’s rain.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while they’re dormant.
* Clean and sharpen garden tools before storing for the winter.
* Mulch, water and cover tender plants to protect them during threat of frost. Succulent plants are at particular risk if temperatures drop below freezing. Make sure to remove coverings during the day.
* Rake and remove dead leaves and stems from dormant perennials.
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