Where to mulch your tree for free in Sacramento and Yolo counties
When these trees have fulfilled all their duties as holiday decor, they can be recycled into mulch. Kathy Morrison
Merry Christmas! (Are you ready to take down the tree?)
When that time comes, you have options for what to do with your holiday conifer. If it was a real tree (made of wood and leaves, not plastic), it can be recycled into mulch for your garden or local parks.
The City of Sacramento as well as Sacramento and Yolo counties turn old trees into mulch that can help save water as well as add nutrients to soil.
For Sacramento residents with curbside trash pick-up, trees can be left in the street or cut up and placed in the green waste container. “The Claw” will pick up trees through Feb. 3. Please keep trees out of bike lanes and away from storm drains, the city says.
Remember to remove any metal (including nails and tree stands), tinsel, lights or ornaments. For street pick-up, larger trees should be cut into 5-foot lengths or shorter. Flocked trees will be accepted.
Sacramento puts a limit of five trees for holiday street pick-up; if more than five, the load has to be taken to Elder Creek, Kiefer Landfill and the North Area Recovery Station.
West Sacramento residents can recycle their trees curbside through Jan 22. Just place the tree next to the organics cart on your regular pick-up day.
Cub Scout Pack 49 in West Sacramento is available (for a donation) to come to your home and pick up your tree for recycling. Email Pack49Trees@gmail.com for more information.
Yolo County residents have two drop-off options:
-- WM’s free tree recycling bin will be open daily from 7 a.m to 3 p.m., Dec. 26 through Jan. 9 at 1271 W. Capitol Ave., West Sacramento.
-- Yolo County Central Landfill offers free tree recycling daily from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (8 a.m. Sundays), Dec. 26 through Jan. 15 (excluding New Year’s Day), at 44090 County Road 28H, Woodland.
In Sacramento County, several free drop-off events are scheduled:
-- 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; SMUD Corporation Yard, 6100 Folsom Blvd., Sacramento. Get your tree mulched for free and take home the mulch to use in your garden. Bring large trash bags or containers to cart home the mulch.
-- 8 a.m.-6 p.m Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 4 and 5; North Area Recovery Station, 4450 Roseville Road, North Highlands.
-- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 4 and 5; Kiefer Landfill, 12701 Kiefer Blvd., Rancho Cordova. Directions: From Jackson Highway, go north on Grant Line, then right on Kiefer Boulevard.
-- 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; Elder Creek Recovery and Transfer, 8642 Elder Creek Road, Sacramento. Directions: From Jackson Highway, go south on Florin Perkins Road, then left on Elder Creek Road.
-- 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; Sacramento Recycling & Transfer Station, 8491 Fruitridge Road, Sacramento. This site is also accepting trees weekdays through Jan. 4. Directions: From Jackson Highway, go south on Florin Perkins Road, then right on Fruitridge Road.
-- 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; Dan Russell Rodeo Arena, Rodeo Park, 200 Stafford St., Folsom.
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Once the winds die down, it’s good winter gardening weather with plenty to do:
* Prune, prune, prune. Now is the time to cut back most deciduous trees and shrubs. The exceptions are spring-flowering shrubs such as lilacs.
* Now is the time to prune fruit trees. (The exceptions are apricot and cherry trees, which are susceptible to a fungus that causes dieback. Save them until summer.) Clean up leaves and debris around the trees to prevent the spread of disease.
* Prune roses, even if they’re still trying to bloom. Strip off any remaining leaves, so the bush will be able to put out new growth in early spring.
* Clean up leaves and debris around your newly pruned roses and shrubs. Put down fresh mulch or bark to keep roots cozy.
* After the wind stops, apply horticultural oil to fruit trees to control scale, mites and aphids. Oils need 24 hours of dry weather after application to be effective.
* This is also the time to spray a copper-based fungicide to peach and nectarine trees to fight leaf curl. (The safest effective fungicides available for backyard trees are copper soap -- aka copper octanoate -- or copper ammonium, a fixed copper fungicide. Apply either of these copper products with 1% horticultural oil to increase effectiveness.)
* When forced bulbs sprout, move them to a cool, bright window. Give them a quarter turn each day so the stems will grow straight.
* Browse through seed catalogs and start making plans for spring and summer.
* Divide daylilies, Shasta daisies and other perennials.
* Cut back and divide chrysanthemums.
* Plant bare-root roses, trees and shrubs.
* Transplant pansies, violas, calendulas, English daisies, snapdragons and fairy primroses.
* In the vegetable garden, plant fava beans, head lettuce, mustard, onion sets, radicchio and radishes.
* Plant bare-root asparagus and root divisions of rhubarb.
* In the bulb department, plant callas, anemones, ranunculus and gladioli for bloom from late spring into summer.
* Plant blooming azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons. If you’re shopping for these beautiful landscape plants, you can now find them in full flower at local nurseries.
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