Community Garden hosts free composting workshop
Kitchen waste is the basis of free "garden gold" -- compost! Use as an amendment or a mulch, and your soil will benefit. Photo courtesy City of Elk Grove and Republic Services
Here's a great deal for Elk Grove residents: Turn kitchen waste into a rich soil amendment for your garden. Make your own compost and improve your soil, too.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, learn how to make “garden gold” with a compost workshop offered by the City of Elk Grove and Republic Services.
Free for Elk Grove residents, this hands-on demonstration will be held at Elk Grove Community Garden, 10025 Hampton Oak Drive, Elk Grove.
Space is limited and advance registration is encouraged. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elk-grove-compost-workshop-tickets-691058493557.
The one-hour workshop will cover the basics of composting, how to mix “greens” (fresh material) with “browns” (dried material) for faster results, plus what to do with the compost when it’s ready. Not only will you be recycling organic waste (banana peels, egg shells, coffee grounds, etc.), you’ll be saving money: Soil amendment is expensive!
For more on organic recycling in Elk Grove: https://www.elkgrovecity.org/recycling-and-waste/organic-recycling.
Not an Elk Grove resident? Check out the free Compost and Mulch workshop scheduled by the City of Roseville, 10 a.m. Sept. 23. Registration information is here.
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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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