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2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar

It's here!

Our 2025 edition is on sale now.

For only $12 (plus postage) you can have a whole year of gardening advice delivered to your door.

We are here for you!

Video library of gardening topics.
Publications. Enjoy!
Facebook updated every day.
YouTube Channel with all the past Virtual Harvest Days and Master Gardener videos.

Snap a pic of your problem plant or mystery bug and email it to the Help Desk: mgsacramento@ucanr.edu

2024 holiday office hours

The UCCE Office will be closed:

Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29 for Thanksgiving
Monday, December 23, 2024 through Wednesday, January 1, 2025 for end of the year holidays

November Horticulture Center Updates

The vegetable garden

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 find ways to use fall leaves in your vegetable garden.

In the WEL

November is a lovely time in the water-efficient landscape gardens at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center.

For more favorites, please visit our plant lists for Fall.

In the orchard

It's time to harvest persimmons, quince, lemons and Bearss limes. Plan now to protect your citrus from frosts and damaging freezes this winter.

Clean and sharpen pruners before storing them for winter. See our video.

See more November orchard activities.

Composting

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

Backyard berries

Propagate blackberries.

See more tips for November.

Grow herbs!

Lemon grass is a primary ingredient in many Asian comfort foods. Easily grown in a pot so you can protect it from cold weather. Learn about Lemon Grass.