Placer County master gardeners offer free workshop on bare-root fruit trees
Urban farm in South Oak Park hosts Winter Clearance Sale
NorCal Home & Landscape Expo opens Friday
New! Cabbage rolls stuffed with rice pilaf, mushrooms, raisins and lemon
Frosty and (maybe) damp forecast reminds Sacramento gardeners it’s still winter
Sacramento gardener creates notebook to make detailed record-keeping simpler
Three events scheduled to help boost campus landscape
Three local events invite gardeners to swap seeds; one includes plants
That's the last day to put green waste in the street for pick-up
Add to your indoor jungle and knowledge with three workshops
Blood oranges and navels with a lavender-lemon syrup
Chilly mornings (and frost danger) continue for Sacramento area
Most plants survived, including hundreds headed for Sacramento
Sunday tour is free but requires registration
Sacramento's 'rose man' shares how Lake Shrine and its World Peace Rose Garden made it through the firestorm
El Dorado County master gardeners offer special workshop on rose care
Sacramento-area rose clubs organize fundraiser to help Tom Carruth
New! Meyer lemon squares with candied almond crust
Potential frost danger follows gusty winds in Sacramento area
Learn about fascinating insect world at Bohart Museum open house
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Food in My Back Yard Series
March 25: Fertilizer tips: How to 'feed' your vegetables for healthy growth
March 18: Time to give vegetable seedlings some more space
March 11: Ways to win the fight against weeds
March 4: Potatoes from the garden
Feb. 25: Plant a fruit tree now -- for later
Feb. 18: How to squeeze more food into less space
Feb. 11: When to plant? Consider staggering your transplants
Feb. 4: Starting in seed starting
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Garden Checklist for week of March 30
Your garden doesn’t mind April showers. Get busy now to enjoy those future flowers.
* Get ready to swing into action in the vegetable garden. As nights warm up over 50 degrees, start setting out tomato, pepper and eggplant transplants.
* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, radishes and squash. (Soak beet seeds overnight in water for better germination,)
* 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.
* Transplant lettuce and cabbage seedlings.
* April is the last chance to plant citrus trees such as dwarf orange, lemon and kumquat. These trees also look good in landscaping and provide fresh fruit in winter.
* 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.
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