El Dorado County master gardeners offer free workshop with strategies for bountiful success
Tomato plants grow well in raised beds, a good solution for gardeners with less-than-ideal drainage or soil structure. Kathy Morrison
Poor drainage? Not enough room? Too much concrete?
Sometimes the best solution to creating a vegetable garden is to grow UP – plant those tomatoes and squash in raised beds and containers.
Summer vegetables and herbs grow very well in raised beds and many also will adapt to growing in pots, wine barrels or other containers. Learn tips for success during the in-person workshop, “Growing Veggies in Raised Beds & Other Containers.”
Set for 9 a.m. Saturday, June 29, this free three-hour class will be offered at Blackstone Community Center in El Dorado Hills. It’s open to the public; advance registration is encouraged. Find the registration link here: https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=42790.
UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County will offer the best and most up-to-date advice about raised bed and contained gardening.
“Join Master Gardeners Mike Pavlick and Zack Dowell as they reveal the strategies for success with growing vegetables in raised beds and other containers,” say the organizers. “Mike will cover site location, raised bed and container options along with other methods that will allow anyone to grow veggies in a small backyard setting. Then, Zack will talk about how to grow vegetables including plant selection, planting times, soil preparation, seed planting techniques, fertilization and pest management.”
Blackstone Center is located at 1461 Blackstone Parkway, El Dorado Hills.
Questions? Email mgeldorado@ucanr.edu.
For more El Dorado County master gardener classes and events: https://mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/.
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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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