Get 2025 garden guides/calendars from Sacramento, Placer master gardeners
The Placer County master gardeners' 2025 calendar focuses on healthy garden practices, for the gardener as well as the garden. Kathy Morrison
Are you ready for a new year of gardening?
One of the best helpers for local gardeners is an information-packed calendar/gardening guide such as those produced by local master gardeners. And you’re in luck: It’s not too late to order their 2025 editions.
An atmospheric river washed out the Placer County Master Gardeners’ sales booth at the recent Mountain Mandarin Festival. That’s usually where the Placer group sells hundreds of their award-winning calendars and gardening guides. So instead of being sold out, copies are still available now.
Their theme for 2025: “Healthy Garden, Healthy You.” (That should fit with a lot of New Year’s resolutions.)
“The 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar provides information on how to achieve a healthy garden with the added benefits of attaining a healthy you,” explain the Placer County master gardeners. “The articles and tips included will help you to create a garden that is a delight to your senses, bountiful with nutritious foods, and inviting to nature. Gardening practices encouraged within the calendar are those recommended by the California Master Gardener Program.”
With useful growing information for foothill as well as valley gardeners, the Placer County edition is available for $12 (including tax) at: https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/2025_Calendar/. Some garden and nursery retailers in Placer and El Dorado counties also carry it in store. See the list of venfors on the link above.
The Sacramento County master gardeners also produce a wonderful calendar and gardening guide. Their theme for 2025: “Passionate About … What We Love About Gardening.” And it’s sure to stir some gardening passions in its users; this calendar includes 12 months of inspiration.
“Each month, you’ll get loads of advice along with science-based tips providing gardening insight and inspiration to the Sacramento region since 2004,” say the Sacramento County master gardeners. “What are we passionate about in the garden? To name a few: succulents, shade gardens, herbs, wildflower meadows, ornamental grasses, container gardening and inviting kids to be passionate about gardening, too. Happy days ahead in your garden!”
Also priced at $12 (plus postage), the Sacramento County master gardener calendar and gardening guide is available here: https://sacmg.ucanr.edu/Gardening_Guide/. It also will be on sale in person during the first Open Garden Day of 2025, on Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. Some local nurseries, which are listed at the online order page, carry it for a slightly higher price.
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Garden Checklist for week of Jan. 12
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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