El Dorado County master gardeners offer workshop on gardening for bouquets and flower arrangements
Zinnias are easy to grow from seed and love hot weather, making them great cut flowers for summertime. Kathy Morrison
Learn the secrets of growing cut flowers at a special workshop offered by the UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County.
Set for 9 a.m. Saturday, March 1, “Grow Your Own Cutting Garden” will show not only how to produce more blooms but also what to do with them. Open to gardeners of all ages, the three-hour workshop will be held at Placerville Veterans Memorial. Admission is free and no advance registration is required.
“Have you strolled through a botanical garden or flower farm and wondered if you could grow those beautiful flowers?” ask the master gardeners. “With some instruction and preparation, you too can grow flowers for gorgeous flower arrangements. Come learn which flowers are best suited for bouquets, how to grow them from seeds or plugs, uses for your established shrubs, site selection, soil preparation, harvesting, pest management, designing the arrangement and lastly, what else to do with all those lovely flowers.”
That’s a lot to fit into a three-hour class! Attendees will come away with all sorts of inspiration and head into spring with a fresh idea of what their gardening can do.
Placerville Veterans Memorial Hall is located at 130 Placerville Drive in Placerville. Although registration is not required, the master gardeners would like attendees to sign up in advance.
Find links and more details here: https://mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/.
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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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