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Master gardeners offer advice every Saturday in Dixon
Solano County experts also will host two propagation workshops
Thank you to our readers; Sacramento Digs Gardening celebrates 5 years
That’s 1,825 posts and counting — all related to local gardening
Arrington, ‘Garden Smart’ win national award
This is the cover of Debbie’s award-winning special publication. Look for it to return to nurseries and other sites soon. If you don’t toot your own horn, who will? And this is a big...
Agree to disagree on pruning tomatoes
Here’s a Cherokee Carbon hybrid tomato plant, in ground about 4 weeks. At the most I’d trim off that shoot at lower right, but not until the plant is bigger. And maybe not even then....
Seize the day? How about 366 of them?
An invaluable calendar, and a bargain, to boot. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) Master gardener calendars are filled with expert advice Next year is a leap year, so we get an extra day of gardening. But...
Listen to Sac Digs Gardening duo on radio
Award-winning garden writer Debbie Arrington chats with radio host Fred Hoffman during Harvest Day earlier this summer. She and blog partner Kathy Morrison will join Hoffman on the radio Sunday morning. (Photo: Kathy Morrison)...
What a bargain: Master gardeners’ 2021 Gardening Guide and Calendar
Is there anything that says Sacramento more than a big, leafy, shady tree? (Calendar images courtesy Jan Geier Fetler and Laura Cerles-Rogers, UCCE master gardeners) The final freeze of winter. The date I last fertilized...
Must-views on YouTube: Harvest Day speakers
In the Water Efficient Landscape at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center, Karrie Reid talks about “Building Resilient Gardens.” (Screenshots from UCCE YouTube channel) I love Harvest Day. Each year I scramble to get to...
Take a moment for a midseason assessment
A bee gets busy on flowers of an African blue basil plant. I successfully propagated the plant from one I had last year, and I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. (Photos: Kathy Morrison)...