Sacramento community gardens host free soil workshops
Learn how to improve soil, get questions answered during ‘Let’s Talk Dirt’
Tagged: soil health
Get to know worms, and what they can do for your garden
Master gardeners offer spring workshops in vermiculture
Green Acres hosts virtual Ideas Fair
Cutting-flower gardens are trendy! Learn about growing flowers from seed, such as stock, above, during the Thursday events of Green Acres’ Dig Into Spring online celebration. (Photo courtesy Green Acres Nursery & Supply) Get...
Healthy soils for healthy plants
These red wigglers are working hard, creating the best soil amendment. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) If your soil isn’t healthy, your plants will have a hard, perhaps even impossible growing life. The California Department of...
Learn how to put clippings and leaves to work in the garden
Composting seminar participants will have the change to purchase a GeoBin at a discounted price. (Photo courtesy GeoBin) Composting classes Saturday for Sacramento city residents City of Sacramento residents, don’t feed The Claw so...
Make a difference for pollinators, one garden at a time
A painted lady butterfly finds happiness on a lacy phacelia, which is a California native plant. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) Free workshop in Davis on creating pollinator habitats How many bees, birds and butterflies visit...
Resources for gardening in fall — when it finally gets here
A lady beetle rests on bell bean plants, which are an excellent cover crop. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) Autumn officially begins in a little less than three weeks. The rest of the country is starting...
Gardening myths and misinformation persist
One of the more whimsical solutions I’ve seen to our August sun: Lace tablecloths strung on stakes over a community garden plot. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) Poor or outdated advice keeps getting passed on, unfortunately...
Celebrate Earth Day every day
Whether it’s from annual flowers, native perennials or fruiting bushes and trees, bees needs food throughout the year, so keep them and other pollinators in mind when you choose plants for your garden. And...