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Shepard Center hosts annual spring sale

Find plants, handmade crafts and much more at this popular event

Plants, crafts, floral arrangements, outdoor art, ceramics and more will be available for purchase during the Shepard Center Spring Sale this weekend. This photo shows several booths from the 2022 Spring Sale.

Plants, crafts, floral arrangements, outdoor art, ceramics and more will be available for purchase during the Shepard Center Spring Sale this weekend. This photo shows several booths from the 2022 Spring Sale. Kathy Morrison

Are you feeling an early case of spring fever? Here’s a huge sale to help feed your creative and gardening desires.

Sacramento’s official garden clubhouse, Shepard Garden and Arts Center in McKinley Park hosts its annual spring sale this weekend, March 11 and 12, with a wide range of garden-related wares offered by the clubs that call Shepard home. Admission and parking are free.

Organizers promise locally-created, sourced or grown “jewelry, plants, crafts, flowers, antiques, art, food and much more.” Also find books, tools, garden art, gift items and more at this event featuring dozens of local clubs.

In addition to the shopping, it’s a wonderful opportunity to meet club members and learn more about what their groups have to offer.

Do you have a plant puzzle or baffling pest? Get expert advice from these garden specialists on specific plant varieties from begonias to perennials.

In addition to the garden clubs, Shepard also hosts textile, ceramics, photography and crafts-oriented organizations. They’ll be at this weekend’s sale, too, with unique items to sell as well as information about their clubs.

Sale hours are 10 a.m to 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Shepard Center is located at 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento.

Details: www.sgaac.org.

– Debbie Arrington

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Get outside early in the morning while temperatures are still cool – and get to work!

* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. Time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.

* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.

* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.

* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters. Transplant seedlings for many of the same flowers.

* Plant dahlia tubers.

* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.

* Keep an eye out for slugs, snails, earwigs and aphids that want to dine on tender new growth.

* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.

* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.

* Are birds picking your fruit off trees before it’s ripe? Try hanging strips of aluminum foil on tree branches. The shiny, dangling strips help deter birds from making themselves at home.

* As spring-flowering shrubs finish blooming, give them a little pruning to shape them, removing old and dead wood. Lightly trim azaleas, fuchsias and marguerites for bushier plants.

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