Two-hour class Saturday at Community Garden and Learning Center
This vast stretch of lettuce and other greens is grown via hydroponic techniques at the Gotham Greens farm site west of Davis. But a gardener needn't have a space this size to use hydroponics to grow food such as strawberries, tomatoes or peppers. Kathy Morrison
When it comes right down to it, plants don't even need soil to grow, as long as they get water, light and nutrients.
That's the science behind hydroponics, which is the cultivation of plants in a nutrient-rich solution.
The Elk Grove Community Garden and Learning Center this Saturday, June 1, will host "Hydroponics 101," a free class to be taught by Eric Goegen, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Gardeners interested in the workshop are asked to RSVP to (916) 818-9108, but walk-ins are welcome. No fee is charged, although donations of canned goods for the Elk Grove Food Bank are appreciated.
The Elk Grove Community Garden is located at 10025 Hampton Oak Drive. For more information on the garden and events there, go to https://elkgrovecommunitygarden.org/
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Garden Checklist for week of Sept. 8
Temperatures are headed down to normal. The rest of the month kicks off fall planting season:
* Harvest tomatoes, peppers, squash, melons and eggplant.
* Compost annuals and vegetable crops that have finished producing.
* Cultivate and add compost to the soil to replenish its nutrients for fall and winter vegetables and flowers.
* Fertilize deciduous fruit trees.
* Plant onions, lettuce, peas, radishes, turnips, beets, carrots, bok choy, spinach and potatoes directly into the vegetable beds.
* Transplant cabbage, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower as well as lettuce seedlings.
* Sow seeds of California poppies, clarkia and African daisies.
* Transplant cool-weather annuals such as pansies, violas, fairy primroses, calendulas, stocks and snapdragons.
* Divide and replant bulbs, rhizomes and perennials.
* Dig up and divide daylilies as they complete their bloom cycle.
* Divide and transplant peonies that have become overcrowded. Replant with “eyes” about an inch below the soil surface.
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