Twelve Months of Articles/Holiday Hints
Twelve Months of Articles
October 2025
September 2025
August 2025
July 2025
Document
June 2025
May 2025
- Document
April 2025
March 2025
- Document
February 2025
January 2025
- Helpful Garden Tips for January 2025 (January 4, 2025)
December 2024
- Holiday Decorations from the Garden (December 14, 2024)
- Meet the Ginko Tree (December 21, 2024)
- It's time to prevent Peach Leaf Curl (December 28, 2024)
November 2024
- How Important is Soil Health (November 16, 2024)
- Gifts and Gadgets for Gardeners (November 23, 2024)
- Cover Crops for Home Gardeners (November 30, 2024)
October 2024
- October Flower of the Month - Chrysanthemums (October 12, 2024)
- A Story of Two Longlegs Spiders (October 19, 2024)
- Grow Your Own Garlic (October 20, 2024)
September 2024
- It's Cilantro Planting Time (September 28, 2024)
- Potato Growing for the Green Home Gardener (September 21, 2024)
August 2024
- Outdoor Container Gardening (August 17, 2024)
- Milkweed for the California Garden (August 24, 2024)
- Create Your Own Hanging Baskets and Window Boxes (July 20, 2024)
July 2024
- Preventing Sunburn and Heat Stress in the Garden (July 13, 2024)
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(July 20, 2024)
- Gardening Naturally Invite the Good Guys into Your Yard (July 20, 2024)
June 2024
May 2024
- Document
- Easy Care Summer Flowers (May 11, 2024)
April 2024
- Growing VFN Resistant Tomatoes (April 27, 2024)
March 2024
Consider Raised Garden Beds (March 9, 2024)
February 2024
January 2024
- Sweet Success with Apricot Trees (January 20, 2023)
December 2023
- Document
New Years Resolutions for the Garden (December 23, 2023)
November 2023
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Cool Season Vegetable Gardening is Cool and Rewarding (November 25, 2023)
The Christmas Cactus - an eyecatching delight (November 18, 2023)
October 2023
Spiders – Scary and Spooky, or Peaceful and Quiet (October 28, 2023)
Recognizing Herbicide Damage in Ornamentals (October 21, 2023) (October 21, 2023)
What to do with the rain (October 14, 2023)
September 2023
- Plant Your Thanksgiving Salads and Sides Now (September 23, 2023)
- Why call a Master Gardener (September 16, 2023)
- Lavenders for Drought Tolerant Gardens (September 9, 2023)
August 2023
- Cacti and Succulents for the Indoors (August 26, 2023)
- Create a Water Wise Yard (August 5, 2023)
July 2023
- Bees in the Garden (July 22, 2023)
- Caterpillars, Worms, and their Damage, OH MY! (July 15, 2023)
- Succulent Sedums are Suitable for Sustainable Gardens (July 8, 2023)
June 2023
- Document
- Caring for Citrus Trees (June 24, 2023)
- Sunflowers are Easy to Grow for Cut Flowers (June 17, 2023)
May 2023
- Daylillies (May 20, 2023)
- Red Bird of Paradise (May 13, 2023)
April 2023
- Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden (April 22, 2023)
- Honeydew Producing Insects (April 15, 2023)
March 2023
- What is an Artichoke (March 18, 2023)
- Composting - How to Beef up on Organic Matter (March 11, 2023)
February 2023
- Growing Blueberries (February 25, 2023)
- Plumbago - One Common Name for Two Different Plants (February 18, 2023)
- Home Orchards - Choosing the Perfect Trees to Fit your Needs (February 11, 2023)
January 2023
- What Grows in Grandma's (and Grandpa's) Garden (January 28, 2023)
- Container Gardening - Planting (January 21, 2023)
- Container Gardening - The Basics (January 14, 2023)
Holiday Hints
| Super Bowl Sunday Fruit Trees - Deciduous - Apply 2nd dormant spray for insect and disease prevention (before buds open). Lawns - Apply preemergence for crabgrass & spring weeds (if needed). |
| Valentine’s Day Flowers - Roses - Complete pruning. Grapes - Prune vines. Vegetables - Plant lettuce, peas, potatoes, radishes. |
| St. Patrick’s Day Flowers - Seed cosmos, garden herbs, sunflowers, wildflowers, etc. Bulbs - Plant summer flowering bulbs/corms (e.g. amaryllis, cannas, gladioli, bearded iris). Lawns - Fertilize with a complete fertilizer. Vegetables - Plant beans, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, melons, peppers, squash, tomatoes. |
| April Fool’s Day Flowers - Azalea, camellia & gardenias - prune & fertilize with ‘acid type’ fertilizer after bloom. Roses - Check for aphids & mildew; feed with systemic & rose fertilizer. Fruit & Nut Trees - Deciduous - Fertilize (½ now, ½ in June). Evergreen - Prune (after danger of frost and up until bloom) Vegetables - Plant corn, okra, tomatoes. |
| Mother’s Day Flowers - Plant summer color bedding plants (e.g. begonia, impatiens, marigold, petunia, salvia, vinca, zinnia). Lawns - Fertilize with nitrogen; apply preemergence for summer weeds (if needed). Fruit Trees - Citrus - Fertilize 3x in early spring & summer with citrus/avocado fertilizer. Olives - Spray olive trees at bloom to prevent unwanted fruit. |
| July 4th - Independence Day Fruit Trees - Prune apricots after harvest to avoid disease. Lawns - Fertilize warm season grasses (bermuda, St. Augustine, & zoysia). Do NOT fertilize cool season grasses (fescues, Kentucky bluegrass, perennial rye). Vegetables - Plant artichokes, pumpkins, & winter squash. |
| Labor Day Lawns - Fertilize all lawns with nitrogen. Apply preemergence for annual bluegrass & winter weeds (if needed). Strawberries - Set plants out now for next year’s fruit. Vegetables - Plant artichokes, beets, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, chard, kale, lettuce, & potatoes. |
| Halloween Flowers - Seed delphiniums, foxgloves, hollyhocks, sweet peas, etc. Plant winter color bedding plants (e.g. iceland poppies, pansies, snapdragons, stock). Lawns - Overseed bermudagrass lawns with annual or perennial ryegrass. Fruit & Nut Trees - Prune properly to promote next year's fruit. |
| Thanksgiving Flowers - Bulbs - Plant spring flowering bulbs (e.g. crocus, daffodils, dutch iris, hyacinth, narcissus, ranunculus, and tulips). Fruit Trees - Apply 1st dormant spray for insect and disease prevention. Vegetables - Plant spinach. |
| New Year’s Day Flowers - Roses - Start pruning. Vegetables - Plant asparagus crowns. |