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Solid Gold: National award for Arrington

Sacramento Digs Gardening
BY Debbie Arrington PUBLISHED AUG 21, 2018

Sac Digs Gardening’s co-creator honored by Garden Writers Association

Debbie Arrington, co-creator of Sacramento Digs Gardening, was honored by the Garden Writers Association with the 2018 Gold Award for newspaper writing, top honors in the GWA’s annual media awards.

The GWA honors are the only national media awards for garden communicators. The Gold Award for Best Newspaper Writing was announced Aug. 16 at the association’s annual conference in Chicago. Arrington had previously won the 2018 GWA Silver Award for an article appearing in a newspaper with more than 20,000 circulation for her article, “New Flavors Sprout from Nearby Seed Experiments,” which appeared Sept. 23 in The Sacramento Bee.

Other 2018 Gold Award winners included: “Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates,” by John Whitman as Best Book; "On Ants, Aphids and Mutualism" by Helen Battersby as Best Digital Writing; and “The Conscientious Gardener: Three-Part Series on The Monarch” by Kylee Baumle as Best Magazine Writing,

For a complete list of winners: https://www.gardenwriters.org/News/GWA-2018-Media-Awards-Gold-Winners-Announced

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Temperatures will be a bit higher than normal in the afternoons this week. Take care of chores early in the day – then enjoy the afternoon. It’s time to smell the roses.

* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. If you haven’t already, it’s time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.

* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.

* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.

* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters.

* Plant dahlia tubers. Other perennials to set out include verbena, coreopsis, coneflower and astilbe.

* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.

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* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.

* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.

* Don’t forget to water. Seedlings need moisture. Deep watering will help build strong roots and healthy plants.

* Add mulch to the garden to help keep that precious water from evaporating. Mulch also cuts down on weeds. But don’t let it mound around the stems or trunks of trees or shrubs. Leave about a 6-inch to 1-foot circle to avoid crown rot or other problems.

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