Where to mulch your tree for free in Sacramento and Yolo counties
When these trees have fulfilled all their duties as holiday decor, they can be recycled into mulch. Kathy Morrison
Merry Christmas! (Are you ready to take down the tree?)
When that time comes, you have options for what to do with your holiday conifer. If it was a real tree (made of wood and leaves, not plastic), it can be recycled into mulch for your garden or local parks.
The City of Sacramento as well as Sacramento and Yolo counties turn old trees into mulch that can help save water as well as add nutrients to soil.
For Sacramento residents with curbside trash pick-up, trees can be left in the street or cut up and placed in the green waste container. “The Claw” will pick up trees through Feb. 3. Please keep trees out of bike lanes and away from storm drains, the city says.
Remember to remove any metal (including nails and tree stands), tinsel, lights or ornaments. For street pick-up, larger trees should be cut into 5-foot lengths or shorter. Flocked trees will be accepted.
Sacramento puts a limit of five trees for holiday street pick-up; if more than five, the load has to be taken to Elder Creek, Kiefer Landfill and the North Area Recovery Station.
West Sacramento residents can recycle their trees curbside through Jan 22. Just place the tree next to the organics cart on your regular pick-up day.
Cub Scout Pack 49 in West Sacramento is available (for a donation) to come to your home and pick up your tree for recycling. Email Pack49Trees@gmail.com for more information.
Yolo County residents have two drop-off options:
-- WM’s free tree recycling bin will be open daily from 7 a.m to 3 p.m., Dec. 26 through Jan. 9 at 1271 W. Capitol Ave., West Sacramento.
-- Yolo County Central Landfill offers free tree recycling daily from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (8 a.m. Sundays), Dec. 26 through Jan. 15 (excluding New Year’s Day), at 44090 County Road 28H, Woodland.
In Sacramento County, several free drop-off events are scheduled:
-- 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; SMUD Corporation Yard, 6100 Folsom Blvd., Sacramento. Get your tree mulched for free and take home the mulch to use in your garden. Bring large trash bags or containers to cart home the mulch.
-- 8 a.m.-6 p.m Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 4 and 5; North Area Recovery Station, 4450 Roseville Road, North Highlands.
-- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 4 and 5; Kiefer Landfill, 12701 Kiefer Blvd., Rancho Cordova. Directions: From Jackson Highway, go north on Grant Line, then right on Kiefer Boulevard.
-- 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; Elder Creek Recovery and Transfer, 8642 Elder Creek Road, Sacramento. Directions: From Jackson Highway, go south on Florin Perkins Road, then left on Elder Creek Road.
-- 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; Sacramento Recycling & Transfer Station, 8491 Fruitridge Road, Sacramento. This site is also accepting trees weekdays through Jan. 4. Directions: From Jackson Highway, go south on Florin Perkins Road, then right on Fruitridge Road.
-- 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4; Dan Russell Rodeo Arena, Rodeo Park, 200 Stafford St., Folsom.
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Enjoy this spring weather – and get gardening!
* 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. Other perennials to set out include verbena, coreopsis, coneflower and astilbe.
* 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.
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