Get 2025 garden guides/calendars from Sacramento, Placer master gardeners
The Placer County master gardeners' 2025 calendar focuses on healthy garden practices, for the gardener as well as the garden. Kathy Morrison
Are you ready for a new year of gardening?
One of the best helpers for local gardeners is an information-packed calendar/gardening guide such as those produced by local master gardeners. And you’re in luck: It’s not too late to order their 2025 editions.
An atmospheric river washed out the Placer County Master Gardeners’ sales booth at the recent Mountain Mandarin Festival. That’s usually where the Placer group sells hundreds of their award-winning calendars and gardening guides. So instead of being sold out, copies are still available now.
Their theme for 2025: “Healthy Garden, Healthy You.” (That should fit with a lot of New Year’s resolutions.)
“The 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar provides information on how to achieve a healthy garden with the added benefits of attaining a healthy you,” explain the Placer County master gardeners. “The articles and tips included will help you to create a garden that is a delight to your senses, bountiful with nutritious foods, and inviting to nature. Gardening practices encouraged within the calendar are those recommended by the California Master Gardener Program.”
With useful growing information for foothill as well as valley gardeners, the Placer County edition is available for $12 (including tax) at: https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/2025_Calendar/. Some garden and nursery retailers in Placer and El Dorado counties also carry it in store. See the list of venfors on the link above.
The Sacramento County master gardeners also produce a wonderful calendar and gardening guide. Their theme for 2025: “Passionate About … What We Love About Gardening.” And it’s sure to stir some gardening passions in its users; this calendar includes 12 months of inspiration.
“Each month, you’ll get loads of advice along with science-based tips providing gardening insight and inspiration to the Sacramento region since 2004,” say the Sacramento County master gardeners. “What are we passionate about in the garden? To name a few: succulents, shade gardens, herbs, wildflower meadows, ornamental grasses, container gardening and inviting kids to be passionate about gardening, too. Happy days ahead in your garden!”
Also priced at $12 (plus postage), the Sacramento County master gardener calendar and gardening guide is available here: https://sacmg.ucanr.edu/Gardening_Guide/. It also will be on sale in person during the first Open Garden Day of 2025, on Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. Some local nurseries, which are listed at the online order page, carry it for a slightly higher price.
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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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