Find scores of vendors and local home experts
Discover your landscaping style during the Sacramento Home & Garden Show this weekend, Oct. 11-13. Courtesy Sacramento Home & Garden Show
Got projects on your to-do list? Or a lot of home and garden questions? Find folks who get things done – and have plenty of answers – at a Sacramento tradition: the original Sacramento Home & Garden Show.
For three days, Oct. 11-13, this huge fall show fills the Pavilion building at Cal Expo. Scores of vendors offer their latest home and garden products as well as skills.
“Renovating and upgrading your home can be a stressful process if you don’t have the right team to help,” say the organizers. “For over 40 years, the Sacramento Home & Garden Show has been helping homeowners find the resources, savings, and professionals to get the job done right!
“Meet and learn from top local experts in a casual, comfortable, no-pressure environment. You’ll see the newest in landscaping, gardening, patios, fencing, decks, heating and air, solar, insulation, remodeling, new construction, plumbing, kitchens, baths, closets, home furnishings, appliances, lighting, roofing, painting, gutters, home security, windows, doors, siding, tile, stone, granite, BBQs, pools, spas and more!”
That’s quite a list! Pick up a copy of the show’s “Homeowner’s Toolkit” with worksheets, checklists, tips and more on how to tackle any home or landscape renovation project.
Also, shop for plants and garden needs. Find your perfect landscape style.
Show hours are noon to 5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Park in Lot D (near the racetrack grandstand) and enter the Blue Gate.
Admission: $10 general, $8 seniors (65 and up); youth (age 17 and younger) admitted free. Parking: $10.
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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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