Master gardeners present special workshop
These wigglers are hard at work, making rich castings from kitchen and garden waste. Kathy Morrison
It's time to get wiggly! Become a worm wrangler and make garden gold.
Learn about worm composting during a special workshop Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. Advance registration is required and space is limited. The deadline to register is Oct. 14.
Presented by thr UCCE Sacramento County master gardeners, this fun workshop will show how to harness worm power to make rich, high-qaulity compost. According to the master gardeners, this neat, easy and odorless method of composting is ideal for indoor and outdoor locations."
Ideal for beginners, this class covers bin construction, bedding and food needs for worms, and how to "harvest" their castings.
Registration is $30, which includes all instructional materials, a worm bin and worms -- everything you need to get started.
The two-hour course starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, and will be held outdoors, rain or shine, at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. No drop-ins are allowed and no refunds will be offered.
The Fair Oaks Horticulture Center is at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks, just south of the Fair Oaks Library. For more information on UCCE master gardener activities, go to https://sacmg.ucanr.edu/?calitem=537195
P.S. SDG's Kathy Morrison offers this tip: Get a preview of what worm composting (and other composting) is all about by visiting the Composting Area during Open Garden Day on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 9 a.m. to noon at the Horticulture Center.
-- Debbie Arrington
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Garden Checklist for week of Nov. 3
November still offers good weather for fall planting:
* If you haven't already, it's time to clean up the remains of summer. Pull faded annuals and vegetables. Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* Now is the best time to plant most trees and shrubs. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from fall and winter rains.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Keep planting bulbs to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* This is also a good time to seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* For holiday blooms indoors, plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs now. Fill a shallow bowl or dish with 2 inches of rocks or pebbles. Place bulbs in the dish with the root end nestled in the rocks. Add water until it just touches the bottom of the bulbs. Place the dish in a sunny window. Add water as needed.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.
* To help prevent leaf curl, apply a copper fungicide spray to peach and nectarine trees after they lose their leaves this month. Leaf curl, which shows up in the spring, is caused by a fungus that winters as spores on the limbs and around the tree in fallen leaves. Sprays are most effective now.
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