Placer County master gardeners will sell new information-packed calendar at Auburn Home and Harvest Fest
The Placer County master gardeners' 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar is on sale now. Find it at the master gardeners' booth at the Auburn show. Kathy Morrison
For gardeners, it’s never too early to think ahead.
Sunday starts a new season – fall – which is a perfect time to plant for winter and spring, while planning for next summer, too.
For all that planning and planting, pick up a copy of the just-released 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar, presented by the UC Master Gardeners of Placer County.
Packed with the results of the latest UC research, this award-winning annual publication is much more than handy day-by-day reminders. It’s jam-packed with year-round information on how to make your garden thrive – especially if you garden in our foothill communities or the Central Valley.
The 2025 theme: “Healthy Garden, Healthy You” with a special focus on food gardening.
“There has been a surge this year in people interested in growing their own food,” says master gardener Paula Agostini, co-chair of the group’s calendar committee. “This taps into that enthusiasm and can help North Californians, from beginners to experts, create, grow and harvest a healthy, sustainable garden.”
Many of these edible plants are also highly ornamental; they look good while they produce food.
Each month offers inspiration, too, such as “Creating a relaxing garden” (the theme for August) or “Home office plants benefit you and also your team at work” (November).
The Gardening Guide and Calendar is priced at $12 including tax or five for $55. (It makes a great gift.) It can be ordered via credit card online at: https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/2025_Calendar/.
Or pick up a copy in person this weekend at the Auburn Home and Harvest Fest at the Gold Country Fairgrounds. The master gardeners will staff a booth all three days of this huge home and garden show. They’ll answer garden questions as well as sell the new garden guide.
Hours are noon to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22.
Tickets are $5 general. Discounts are available for purchasing tickets in advance online. Parking is $10.
Gold Country Fairgrounds is located at 209 Fairgate Road, Auburn.
Tickets and more info: https://auburnshows.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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