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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.

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If you don't plant cool-season crops in your garden, it's time to get your vegetable garden beds ready for winter.

Learn what to do, and ways to use fall leaves in your vegetable garden.

It's time to harvest persimmons, quince, lemons and Bearss limes.

Plan now to protect your citrus from frosts and damaging freezes this winter.

See more November orchard activities.

Propagate blackberries.

See more tips for November.

Basil does well in our warm climate but can’t tolerate the winter frost.

Take cuttings and grow it indoors!

Protect yourself while working the compost pile. Potentially harmful pathogens can lurk amongst the "good guys."

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.