Chilly mornings (and frost danger) continue for Sacramento area
Potential frost danger follows gusty winds in Sacramento area
Pruning season arrives after another soggy weekend
Expect a very wet Christmas week; make most of breaks between storms
Clean up after the latest deluge – there's more rain on the way
Rain is coming back to Sacramento – but when?
Make the most of dry, clear (and chilly) weather
Thanksgiving week is a time to dry out and count blessings
Get ready to chill as cold fronts bring potential frost
Week starts soggy as Sacramento settles into fall weather pattern
November starts with typical fall weather – mild
Last days of October may get a little damp
Winds bring high fire danger, low humidity
After record heat wave, fall weather finally arrives
Record heat zaps end of summer garden; time to focus on fall
After September heat, October starts out with triple digits
Fall gets off to a hot start; it’s time to plant for cool weather ahead
Coming soon: Much cooler temperatures with possibility of rain
This week could be the perfect time to plant for fall, winter
After ‘cool’ Labor Day, triple-digit heat returns to Sacramento
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Garden Checklist for week of Jan. 19
Dress warmly in layers – and get to work:
* 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 oil 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.
* 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. Clean up leaves and debris around the trees to prevent the spread of disease. (The exceptions are apricot and cherry trees, which are susceptible to a fungus that causes dieback if pruned now. Save those until summer.)
* 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.
* 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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