Roseville class covers fruit tree care from planting to harvest
Peaches can be a challenge to grow, but are so worth it. Learn about growing fruit trees in a free Roseville workshop next month. Kathy Morrison
Turn your landscape into your own little food forest with a free workshop from the City of Roseville.
“Growing Fruit Trees” focuses on the basics (plus a lot more) from choosing the right varieties for your home to pruning for higher yield and easier harvest.
Set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, the two-hour class will be held at Martha Riley Community Library’s meeting rooms. Seating is limited; sign up today. Register here.
“You may know when to pick and enjoy that delicious fruit, but do you know how to choose, plant, tend, and prune your fruit tree? Join Roseville Urban Forest Foundation arborist Lani Houck to learn how to grow and maintain fruit trees, from planting to harvest,” say the organizers. “Learn about choosing, planting, watering, and pest management to keep your fruit trees beautiful and productive. We will provide pruning instructions in this workshop, but consider taking the Pruning Fruit trees workshop to get in-depth pruning information.”
That follow-up pruning workshop, scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, unfortunately is full at the moment, but a waiting list is available for signups.
Roseville also offers a general pruning class, "Pruning With Purpose." The Jan. 13 workshop is full, but there is plenty of space in the one scheduled Wednesday, Feb. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Martha Riley Community Library is located at 1501 Pleasant Grove Blvd., Roseville, next to the Roseville Utility Exploration Center.
Roseville’s popular gardening classes tend to fill up quickly. Find more available workshops for 2024 at roseville.ca.us/exploremore.
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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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