Mandarin festival booth skipped; award-winning gardening guide now available online
Shoppers with their bags of mandarins avoid the flooded part of the sidewalk during the first day of the Mountain Mandarin Festival. The annual event is being held this year @the Grounds in Roseville, which received a significant dose of rain Friday. Kathy Morrison
What’s a little atmospheric river? The Mountain Mandarin Festival is going on this weekend, rain or shine.
But the UC Master Gardeners of Placer County decided to skip the fest and stay dry.
Their planned booth was outdoors at the festival’s new location @the Grounds in Roseville. With little protection from the storm, the master gardeners – and their new gardening guides – would get soaked.
The Mountain Mandarin Festival usually serves as the big push for the Placer County master gardeners’ award-winning gardening guides, which also happen to be the organization’s major fundraiser. Without that public outreach, sales will be dependent on online sales as well as sales at local garden shops.
Help the master gardeners – and the gardeners you know, yourself included – and order one now.
With the theme “Healthy Garden, Healthy You,” the 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar is available for $12 or five for $55 (it makes a great gift).
Shoppers can order the publication online or via mail order; got to the Placer master gardener website for those forms.
Or click on https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/.
Meanwhile, the Mountain Mandarin Festival continues through Sunday, Nov 24. Find details and any updates here: https://mandarinfestival.com/.
For the latest on our current atmospheric river and rain totals: https://www.weather.gov/sto/.
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Make the most of this “average” weather; your garden is growing fast! (So are the weeds!)
* Warm weather brings rapid growth in the vegetable garden, with tomatoes and squash enjoying the heat. Deep-water, then feed with a balanced fertilizer. Bone meal can spur the bloom cycle and help set fruit.
* Generally, tomatoes need deep watering two to three times a week, but don’t let them dry out completely. That can encourage blossom-end rot.
* From seed, plant corn, melons, pumpkins, radishes, squash and sunflowers.
* Plant basil to go with your tomatoes.
* Transplant summer annuals such as petunias, marigolds and zinnias. It’s also a good time to transplant perennial flowers including astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia, salvia and verbena.
* Pull weeds before they go to seed.
* Let the grass grow longer. Set the mower blades high to reduce stress on your lawn during summer heat. To cut down on evaporation, water your lawn deeply during the wee hours of the morning, between 2 and 8 a.m.
* Tie up vines and stake tall plants such as gladiolus and lilies. That gives their heavy flowers some support.
* Dig and divide crowded bulbs after the tops have died down.
* Feed summer flowers with a slow-release fertilizer.
* Mulch, mulch, mulch! This “blanket” keeps moisture in the soil longer and helps your plants cope during hot weather. It also helps smother weeds.
* Thin grapes on the vine for bigger, better clusters later this summer.
* Cut back fruit-bearing canes on berries.
* Feed camellias, azaleas and other acid-loving plants. Mulch to conserve moisture and reduce heat stress.
* Cut back Shasta daisies after flowering to encourage a second bloom in the fall.
* Trim off dead flowers from rose bushes to keep them blooming through the summer. Roses also benefit from deep watering and feeding now. A top dressing of aged compost will keep them happy. It feeds as well as keeps roots moist.
* Pinch back chrysanthemums for bushier plants with many more flowers in September.
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