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Amador Flower Farm hosts annual Fall Fun Days

Mazes, pumpkin patch, free tram tours plus gardening experts

Daylilies are the specialty at the Amador Flower Farm, but there are plenty of other things to see and enjoy this weekend during Fall Fun Days.

Daylilies are the specialty at the Amador Flower Farm, but there are plenty of other things to see and enjoy this weekend during Fall Fun Days. Courtesy Amador Flower Farm

Ready for some fall fun, flower farm-style?

Enjoy a weekend of autumn celebration at Amador Flower Farm as the foothill wine country destination celebrates the season with its annual Fall Fun Days Festival.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and 29, the farm will host a family-friendly, garden-oriented salute to the season including mazes, a pumpkin patch and animals to pet.

Tour the farm’s demonstration gardens for water-wise landscaping ideas. Plant experts will offer demonstrations and tips on fall planting, spring bulbs and the farm’s specialty – daylilies. Amador Flower Farm grows hundreds of daylily varieties.

Take a free tram tour of the farm, spread out over rolling hills among heritage oaks. Admission and parking are free.

“After our long hot summer, the days begin to cool and the fall planting season heats up!” say the hosts. “Join us for our Fall Fun Days Festival. There will be fun for the entire family. Demonstrations by plant experts and fall bulb extravaganza.

"Visit the farm animals, take a free tram ride tour of the farm and venture through the hay bale maze, pumpkin patch and cornfield maze.”

Bring a picnic to enjoy, too; there’s plenty of space under the trees.

Details: https://www.amadorflowerfarm.com/ or (209) 245-6660.

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Garden Checklist for week of May 11

Make the most of the lower temperatures early in the week. We’ll be back in the 80s by Thursday.

* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. Time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.

* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.

* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.

* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters. (You also can transplant seedlings for many of the same flowers.)

* Plant dahlia tubers.

* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.

* Keep an eye out for slugs, snails, earwigs and aphids that want to dine on tender new growth.

* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.

* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.

* Add mulch to the garden to maintain moisture. Mulch also cuts down on weeds. But don’t let it mound around the stems or trunks of trees or shrubs. Leave about a 6-inch-to-1-foot circle to avoid crown rot or other problems.

* Remember to weed! Pull those nasties before they set seed.

* Water early in the day and keep seedlings evenly moist.

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