Find great selection and good prices at these group fundraisers
Expect to find many vegetable transplants, along with succulents, flowers, perennials and more at the American River College Spring Plant Sale, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Kathy Morrison
This Saturday, April 12, is studded with local plant sales to support Sacramento-area gardens or gardening groups. Here are some highlights:
BUG Spring Sale: The Luther Burbank High School Urban Garden (BUG) presents its rescheduled Spring Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
Vegetables, herbs and flowers are all raised by the students of the LBHS Urban Agriculture Academy. This sale is known for its great plants at even better prices.
Burbank High School is located at 3500 Florin Road, Sacramento.
Details: https://www.facebook.com/BurbankUrbanGarden
Elk Grove Garden Club Spring Sale: This very busy group of green thumbs – including some Sacramento County master gardeners – presents its Spring Plant Sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in Elk Grove.
Find vegetables, flowers, herbs, perennials, succulents, unusual plants plus garden crafts, too; cash or check only. Many of the plants were propagated by local master gardeners who are club members.
The sale will be held at 8609 Brodie Court, Elk Grove. Details: https://www.elkgrovegardenclub.org/
ARC Spring Sale: Famous for its plants and plant people, the Horticulture Department of American River College holds its Spring Plant Sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
This huge sale features vegetables, annual flowers, succulents, perennials and more – all plants student-grown. Credit cards are accepted, with proceeds benefiting the Horticulture program.
Expect to find some bargains, too.
“Our plants will be priced to sell in order to make room for next year’s propagation students to fill,” say the organizers.
American River College is located at 4700 College Oak Drive, Sacramento. The sale is in the Environmental Resource area, northeast corner of campus, just southeast of the new MTC building and south of Parking lot A on Myrtle Avenue.
Details: https://arc.losrios.edu/campus-life/calendar-and-events/event?id=x91656&date=20250501&time=1030
El Dorado County Edibles Sale: At their Sherwood Demonstration Garden, the El Dorado Master Gardeners present two spring plant sales. The first – set for 8 a.m. to noon Saturday – will feature lots of vegetables, especially tomatoes – plus strawberries, herbs and other edible plants. The second sale, scheduled for April 26, will feature trees and ornamentals. Cash or check is preferred, but Visa or Mastercard will be OK for purchases of $25 or more.
Sherwood Demonstration Garden is located at 6699 Campus Drive, Placerville. Details: https://ucanr.edu/site/uc-master-gardeners-el-dorado-county/central-sierra-el-dorado-county-master-gardener-classes-0
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Before possible showers at the end of the week, take advantage of all this nice sunshine – and get to work!
* Set out tomato, pepper and eggplant transplants.
* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, radishes and 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.
* Transplant lettuce and cabbage seedlings.
* 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.
* Spring brings a flush of rapid growth, and that means your garden is really hungry. Give shrubs and trees a dose of a slow-release fertilizer. Or mulch with a 1-inch layer of compost.
* Start thinning fruit that's formed on apple and stone fruit trees -- you'll get larger fruit at harvest (and avoid limb breakage) if some is thinned now. The UC recommendation is to thin fruit when it is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. Peaches and nectarines should be thinned to about 6 inches apart; smaller fruit such as plums and pluots can be about 4 inches apart. Apricots can be left at 3 inches apart. Apples and pears should be thinned to one fruit per cluster of flowers, 6 to 8 inches apart.
* Azaleas and camellias looking a little yellow? If leaves are turning yellow between the veins, give them a boost with chelated iron.
* Pinch chrysanthemums back to 12 inches for fall flowers. Cut old stems to the ground.
* Weed, weed, weed! Don’t let unwanted plants go to seed.
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