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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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Temperatures will be a bit higher than normal in the afternoons this week. Take care of chores early in the day – then enjoy the afternoon. It’s time to smell the roses.
* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. If you haven’t already, it’s 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.
* 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.
* Don’t forget to water. Seedlings need moisture. Deep watering will help build strong roots and healthy plants.
* Add mulch to the garden to help keep that precious water from evaporating. 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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