Master gardeners host Saturday sales in Woodland – plus an online garden chat
Tomato-growing season will begin soon, really! Anyone looking for heirloom tomato starts can check out the Yolo master gardener plant sales April 1 or April 8. Perennials will be on sale, too. Kathy Morrison
Got plants? Yolo County master gardeners do – including heirloom tomato seedlings ready for spring planting.
On two Saturdays – April 1 and 8 – find an excellent selection of tomato varieties plus drought-tolerant perennials at the Yolo County master gardeners’ Spring Plant Sales at Woodland Community College. Open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both Saturdays, the sales will be held in the college’s shade house/greenhouse area (look for the signs).
These plants were lovingly nurtured by Yolo County master gardeners and are ready for planting (as soon as the rain stops). They’re priced to sell: Plants in 1-gallon pots are $6 each; $4.50 for plants in quart-size containers. Tomato plants are $3 apiece. Cash or check only.
Woodland Community College is located at 2300 E. Gibson Road, Woodland.
Wondering what to do in your April garden – and confused by all this rainy weather? Get some answers during a free Zoom workshop, also on Saturday, April 1, and offered by the Yolo County master gardeners. At 10 a.m., UCCE Yolo County Master Gardener Treva Valentine will share her “Kitchen Garden Chat,” part of a monthly online series open free to the public.
“April is the month of action,” say the master gardeners. “Drawing on her vast experience and amusing anecdotes about tending the edible garden, Treva will lead a discussion about what to be doing in the month of April in the edible garden, including growing veggies in containers and how to deal with springtime pests. As always, participants are encouraged to bring all of their edible garden questions to share.”
No advance registration is required. To tune into Treva, click this Zoom link: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/98028723763.
“Kitchen Garden Chat” is held via Zoom at 10 a.m. the first Saturday of each month.
Details on the sales or workshop: https://yolomg.ucanr.edu/.
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Enjoy this spring weather – and get to work! Your garden needs you!
* Start setting out tomato, pepper and eggplant transplants.
* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, radishes, and winter and summer squash.
* Plant onion sets.
* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias.
* Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.
* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.
* Plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.
* Smell orange blossoms? Feed citrus trees with a low dose of balanced fertilizer (such as 10-10-10) during bloom to help set fruit. Keep an eye out for ants.
* Apply slow-release fertilizer to the lawn.
* Thoroughly clean debris from the bottom of outdoor ponds or fountains.
* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.
* Weed, weed, weed! Don’t let unwanted plants go to seed.
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