Mandarin festival booth skipped; award-winning gardening guide now available online
Shoppers with their bags of mandarins avoid the flooded part of the sidewalk during the first day of the Mountain Mandarin Festival. The annual event is being held this year @the Grounds in Roseville, which received a significant dose of rain Friday. Kathy Morrison
What’s a little atmospheric river? The Mountain Mandarin Festival is going on this weekend, rain or shine.
But the UC Master Gardeners of Placer County decided to skip the fest and stay dry.
Their planned booth was outdoors at the festival’s new location @the Grounds in Roseville. With little protection from the storm, the master gardeners – and their new gardening guides – would get soaked.
The Mountain Mandarin Festival usually serves as the big push for the Placer County master gardeners’ award-winning gardening guides, which also happen to be the organization’s major fundraiser. Without that public outreach, sales will be dependent on online sales as well as sales at local garden shops.
Help the master gardeners – and the gardeners you know, yourself included – and order one now.
With the theme “Healthy Garden, Healthy You,” the 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar is available for $12 or five for $55 (it makes a great gift).
Shoppers can order the publication online or via mail order; got to the Placer master gardener website for those forms.
Or click on https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/.
Meanwhile, the Mountain Mandarin Festival continues through Sunday, Nov 24. Find details and any updates here: https://mandarinfestival.com/.
For the latest on our current atmospheric river and rain totals: https://www.weather.gov/sto/.
Comments
0 comments have been posted.Sacramento Digs Gardening to your inbox.
Food in My Back Yard Series
May 6: Maintain soil moisture with mulch for garden success
April 29: What's (already) wrong with my tomato plants?
April 22: Should you stock up on fertilizer? (Yes!)
April 15: Grow culinary herbs in containers
April 8: When to plant summer vegetables
April 1: Don't be fooled by these garden myths
March 25: Fertilizer tips: How to 'feed' your vegetables for healthy growth
March 18: Time to give vegetable seedlings some more space
March 11: Ways to win the fight against weeds
March 4: Potatoes from the garden
Feb. 25: Plant a fruit tree now -- for later
Feb. 18: How to squeeze more food into less space
Feb. 11: When to plant? Consider staggering your transplants
Feb. 4: Starting in seed starting
Local News
Thanks to Our Sponsor!
Sites We Like
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.
Powered by California Local
