The original art and craft show set for Nov. 18-20
Courtesy of Harvest Festival
Get in the holiday mood while celebrating autumn. It’s the annual Harvest Festival, returning to Cal Expo for three days.
Friday through Sunday, Nov. 18-20, hundreds of vendors will pack Cal Expo’s Pavilion building, offering a trove of unique handmade gifts and food. There will be lots of ideas for the gardeners on your list, too – and don’t forget yourself!
Billed as the “original art and craft show,” the Harvest Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary. All items offered for sale are handmade or embellished – nothing mass produced.
“Peruse thousands of American handmade items featuring fine and fashion jewelry, wood art, wall art, ceramics, photography, specialty foods and more,” say the organizers. “One ticket is good for all three days.”
Besides the handmade goods, Vintage Alley features collectibles and more from bygone eras. New this year is the Harvest Festival “Makers Market”: Mini-booths for artisans and crafters making their festival debuts or just starting out on the festival circuit.
Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $9; seniors (age 62 and up) and military personnel, $7; youth ages 13 to 17, $4. Children age 12 and younger admitted free with an adult. Parking is $10.
Cal Expo is located at 1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento. Park in Lot D near the horse racing grandstand.
Details and advance tickets: harvestfestival.com.
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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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