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Blossoms!  Learn about flowers and so much more in our 2020 Calendar! 

Plenty of advice about growing flowers and recipes from the Master Food Preservers for cooking with them.

Still only $10!

Saturday, February 22, 2020
10 AM till NOON

Learn by doing at this hands-on demonstration on how to build an active compost pile.  Is "Hot" composting is right for you?  $20. 

Details/registration.

Spray peach and nectarine for peach leaf curl as soon as leaves have fallen.

Begin winter pruning. Mark your calendar for our annual Pruning Workshop, January 18, 2020.

See more December orchard tasks.

See what we are growing at the Horticulture Center this winter!

This is a good time to jot down how your summer garden did.  Keep a journal!

Our 2020 Gardening Guide and Calendar is the perfect place to record your gardening notes.

Rosemary is an edible garden winner.  It's tough, drought tolerant, evergreen and need we say tasty!  Whether you choose ornamental or culinary varieties, all are edible and all make a show with their blue flowers in spring into summer.

Big trees mean lots of fall leaves—sometimes more than our compost piles can handle all at once.

Get ideas on what to do with excess leaves.

Enjoy fall color on some blueberry varieties.

See more tips for December.

The Asian citrus psyllid has been found in Sacramento causing a County-wide quarantine. The tiny insect damages citrus fruit but of more importance, it can transmit the deadly citrus disease Huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening.  For more:

• Pest Note
• Report Finds

Brown marmorated stink bugs (BMSB) (Halyomorpha halys) have invaded several areas in Sacramento County.