Master gardeners offer free workshop on 'Asexual Propagation'
Bees love African blue basil, but the plant must be grown from cuttings, not seeds. Learn the methods of asexual propagation during a workshop this weekend from the UC master gardeners of El Dorado County. Kathy Morrison
“Asexual Propagation”: It’s how to turn one plant into many – with no bees or seeds necessary.
Learn how during a free workshop hosted by the UC Master Gardeners of El Dorado County.
Set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, “Asexual Propagation” covers the many ways plants can be produced without seed, such as cuttings, root divisions, layering and more. The master gardeners will show the many examples they’ve grown at the Sherwood Demonstration Garden, site of this three-hour workshop.
“In this class, you will learn techniques to propagate some of the most common plants found within your own home, garden or landscape,” say the master gardeners. “Processes from cuttings, layering and divisions will be discussed. Save money, have fun and learn a simple way to expand your garden using materials you already have and grow.”
Sherwood Demonstration Garden is located at 6699 Campus Drive, Placerville. The workshop is free but parking is not. Advance registration is not required, by encouraged. Sign up here: https://mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/Calendar/
In addition to the workshop, the master gardeners will host their “First Saturday Garden Tour” at 9 a.m. Saturday at Sherwood Garden; no advance sign-ups necessary. (If no one shows up by 9:15, the tour is canceled.) The tour explores Sherwood’s many individual gardens that showcase different aspects of foothill gardening.
Master gardeners also will be on hand from 9 a.m. to noon to answer questions. Bring samples of mystery plants or pests in zippered plastic bags. Photos are useful, too.
More details: https://mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/
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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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