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-,  Lifetime Master Gardener Fred Hoffman is the host of the "KFBK Garden Show" on NewsTalk 1530 KFBK in Sacramento, California each Sunday morning from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., followed by "Get Growing" on Talk 650 KSTE in Sacramento, 10 a.m. to Noon. And, you can listen to the shows, live, via the KFBK.com and KSTE.com websites. Available as podcasts! Previous editions of "The KFBK Garden Show" and "Get Growing". Podcast links for Itunes users: KFBK Garden Show and Get Growing Southern Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin County gardeners can also get current gardening information from Fred in his Saturday gardening column in the Lodi News-Sentinel.; also available at the Farmer Fred Rant! Blog page. Visit the Farmer Fred Rant Blog Page for These Garden Tips and More: Vegetables: Interactive Vegetable Planting Calendar Planting Your First Vegetable Garden? Some Tips Before You Plant, Check the Soil Temperature Make Your Own Planting Mix Starting Tomatoes, Peppers From Seed More Tips on Starting Tomatoes from Seed Pepper Seeds Slow to Germinate? Some Tips Heirloom Vegetables Are Better For You Crop Rotation Plan for the Home Garden Crop Rotation for the Garden, Pt. 2 The Hazards of Overfeeding Your Plants  Hand-Pollinating Squash Plants How to Grow Giant Pumpkins Grow Your Own Popcorn   Fruits: Choosing and Planting Bare Root Fruit Trees Mulch Under a Citrus Tree: Pros and Cons Bareroot Fruit Tree Shopping? Buyer Beware! Harvest Fruits By Look and Feel, Not the Calendar Know Your Fruit Tree Rootstocks Growing Blueberries in Containers   Bad Bugs, Diseases, Weeds: A Cure for the Cherry Maggot? Controlling Snails and Slugs Peach Leaf Curl: It's Back! Battling Peach Leaf Curl Battling Sooty Mold & Scale on Citrus Controlling Fungus Gnats on Houseplants Crane Flies vs. Mosquitoes Leaf Spot Problem? Here's What to Do Cat Proofing Your Garden Yellowjacket Fun Facts! Control Tips, Too Weedkillers: Read the Label!   Problem Plants Have Horses? Avoid These Plants! Safe Plants for You, But They're Poison to Your Pets Mistletoe Control Tips  ETC. How To Find Garden Answers Online The Garden Good Guys: Plants that Attract Beneficial Insects Bring on the Bees! Plants to Attract Pollinating Insects This Blog is for the Birds The Good Bug Hotel What's Killing the Bees? A New Study Offers Clues Landscaping, Lawns, Flowers A Tour of Maple Rock Gardens The Heart-Healthy Garden Plants for Privacy The Cure for Non-Performing Daffodils WELO is coming. Start Planning to Save Water Now Plants Wilting in the Heat? Check Before You Water Water-Saving Tips For Your Yard Get Rid of Your Lawn with Soil Solarization How to Kill Your Lawn in 2 Easy Steps Droopy Plants on a Hot Day. Water...or Not?   Trees and Shrubs How To Stake a New Tree Holy Jumping Oak Galls, Batman!    Fall & Winter: What to Do When a Hard Freeze is Forecast New Year's Resolutions for Gardeners Persimmons: THE Edible Ornamental of Fall Innovative Peach Leaf Curl Controls Frost, Freezes Ahead. Get Your Yard Ready After a Freeze, What Should a Gardener Do? Fall-Winter Houseplant Care Tips Drain the Rain Away from the House & Garden Get Your Garden Storm-Ready What to Do in Your Yard AFTER the Storm Tips for the Fall-Winter Vegetable Garden Add Color for the Cold, Gray Days of Winter  Winter Storms and Trees: Inspect Them Now! How to Grow Oak Trees from Acorns What NOT to do in the Garden in Fall Dead Foliage Now? Leaf it Alone! UPCOMING GUESTS ON THE "KFBK GARDEN SHOW" & "GET GROWING" Heard each Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to Noon:.   June 16: Steve Zien, Living Resources Co.: "Get Your Garden Ready for Summer". A clue for the Garden Grappler!   June 23: Warren Roberts, UCD Arboretum : "The Flowers of Summer"     Garden Data (thru June 15, 2013) Avg. evapotranspiration rate this past week : 1.8" valley; 1.7" foothills. Soil Temperature: 75 (F) valley. 74 (F) foothills. 65 (F) upper foothills. Click Here for more Information about soil temperature and evapotranspiration rates   Chilling hours (hours at 45 degrees or less, necessary for deciduous fruit tree production, from Nov.-Feb.) 2012-2013 Chill Season, Nov. 1 - Feb. 28 (FINAL): Valley (Sac., SJ, Yolo, Sutter, Solano Cos.): 1028-1325 hours Foothills (Amador, El Dorado, Placer Cos.): 877-1863 hours  2011-2012 Chill Season Totals: VALLEY: 978-1306 hours; FOOTHILLS: 1089-1952 hours   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   Wondering when is the right time to plant? The online Farmer Fred Interactive Vegetable Planting Calendar for Northern & Central California is for you! Click on each vegetable for specific planting information. Also, download the printable planting calendar!   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Master Gardener 2013 Calendars and Gardening Guides Make Great Gifts! For the Valley: Sacramento County Gardening Guide and Calendar For the Foothills: Placer County Gardeners' Companion Calendar   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   Looking for lists and pictures of plants that don't require much water? Go to: Water-Wise Gardening Websites This is a project undertaken in conjunction with the municipalities and water districts in many California locales. The website has a wealth of local residential photography and plant information to help the homeowner improve their garden in a water efficient way. Sacramento, El Dorado and Placer residents: click on the link - Be Water Smart .   ========================================   Find a Green Gardener-certified landscaper near you: http://www.ecolandscape.org/programGG/GreenGardenerRefList.html    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++    UPCOMING EVENTS   Tuesday, June 18 Mulch Madness!  6:30pm -8:00pm., McKinley Park. Meet near the Rose Garden, 33rd and H street. Join the after-work mulching party at McKinley Park. Volunteers are needed to help care for the park by applying mulch rings around the park trees. The Sacramento Tree Foundation will have wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Date: Saturday, June 22, 2013 Event:  El Dorado Master Gardener Public Class "Water Efficient Gardening" Time and Location:  9:00 AM to noon.  Government Center Hearing Room, Building C, 2850 Fairlane Ct., Placerville, CA Details:  Summer is here and most of us have started irrigating our gardens and landscape plantings.  Attend this class led by Master Gardener Steve Savage to learn when and how much  water to give your plants.  Learn which irrigation techniques are appropriate for each kind of planting. Contact: Master Gardener Office: 530-621-5502 or email: mgeldorado@ucdavis.edu ========================================== Date:  Saturday, June 29, 2013 Event:  El Dorado Master Gardener Public Class "Soils and Fertilizers" Time and Location:  9:00 AM to noon.  Veterans Memorial Building, 130 Placerville Drive, Placerville, CA Details:  Learn about the all-important plant medium: soil.  Class will discuss foothills soils and how they affect everything that grows.  Explore the fascinating world of tiny creatures that make their home in the soils and are responsible for the health of plants.  Amendments, mulches and fertilizers will be discussed: when and how much to apply.  Save money, garden responsibly, and have the best results ever! Contact: Master Gardener Office: 530-621-5502 or email: mgeldorado@ucdavis.edu ==================================== Tuesday, July 2  McKinley Park Tree Tour 6:30pm-8:00pm., McKinley Park. Tour Begins/Ends: Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento 95816 Join the Sacramento Tree Foundation for a tree tour of Sacramento's beloved McKinley Park. The tours will begin near the Shepard Garden and Art Center parking lot. The tours will be lead by a Certified Arborist.   Participants are encouraged to bring a tablet or smartphone and will be shown how to identify trees, edit data, and a lot more using GreenprintMaps.  Digital technology is not required to enjoy the trees and the tour. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Date:  Sat. July 13, 2013 Event:  El Dorado Master Gardeners Public Class:  "Shade Gardening" Time and Location:  9:00 am to noon.  Venue:  TBA  (Most classes given at Veterans Memorial Building, 130 Placerville Drive, Placerville, but call or check website prior to attending) Details:  Shade Gardens offer cool beauty to your landscape.  They add texture, color and flowers to your garden.  Join Master Gardener Merry Campbell as she teaches what plants thrive in all kinds of shade--dappled to deep. Contact:  Master Gardener Office:  530-621-5502 or email: mgeldorado@ucd.edu for further information. =============================== Monday, July 15 Mulch Madness!  6:30pm -8:00pm., McKinley Park. Meet near the Pond Join the after-work mulching party at McKinley Park. Volunteers are needed to help care for the park by applying mulch rings around the park trees. The Sacramento Tree Foundation will have wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Date:  Sat. July 20, 2013 Event:  El Dorado Master Gardener Public Class: "Gardening for Wildlife" Time and Location:  9:00 am to noon.  Venue:  TBA  (Most classes given at Veterans Memorial Building, 130 Placerville Drive, Placerville, but call or check website prior to attending) Details:  A beautiful and productive garden can also be a certified National Wildlife Federation haven.  Learn how to provide food, water and shelter for creatures great and small fromMaster Gardener Judy Thompson. Contact:  Master Gardener Office:  530-621-5502 or email: mgeldorado@ucd.edu for further information. ============================ Date:  Sat. July 27, 2013 Event:  El Dorado Master Gardener Public Class:  "Living with Oaks" Time and Location:  9:00 am to noon.  Venue:  TBA  (Most classes given at Veterans Memorial Building, 130 Placerville Drive, Placerville, but call or check website prior to attending) Details:  El Dorado County is graced with handsome and enduring California Oaks.  New construction, irrigated lawns and cultivated land can endanger them, and they need proper care to continue to thrive.  Join Master Gardener Heidi Napier for a presentation on the various methods to maintain and protect these wonderful trees. Contact:  Master Gardener Office:  530-621-5502 or email: mgeldorado@ucd.edu for further information. ========================================== Sat. July 27 Lake of the Sky Garden Club's 25th annual garden tour, the Incline Village Garden Tour, July 27th, 10am-4pm.  View 7 gardens, including 2 lakefronts; light refreshments; tickets $25.  Tickets on sale at local Tahoe/Truckee nurseries.  Supplies limited and may not be available on tour day, so get your tickets early.  Visit www.lake-of-the-sky.org. ============================================ Tuesday, July 30 McKinley Park Tree Tour 6:30pm-8:00pm., McKinley Park. Tour Begins/Ends: Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento 95816 Join the Sacramento Tree Foundation for a tree tour of Sacramento's beloved McKinley Park. The tours will begin near the Shepard Garden and Art Center parking lot. The tours will be lead by a Certified Arborist.   Participants are encouraged to bring a tablet or smartphone and will be shown how to identify trees, edit data, and a lot more using GreenprintMaps.  Digital technology is not required to enjoy the trees and the tour. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Monday, August 12 Mulch Madness!  6:30pm -8:00pm., McKinley Park. Meet near the Pond Join the after-work mulching party at McKinley Park. Volunteers are needed to help care for the park by applying mulch rings around the park trees. The Sacramento Tree Foundation will have wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Tuesday, August 20 McKinley Park Tree Tour 6:30pm-8:00pm., McKinley Park. Tour Begins/Ends: Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento 95816 Join the Sacramento Tree Foundation for a tree tour of Sacramento's beloved McKinley Park. The tours will begin near the Shepard Garden and Art Center parking lot. The tours will be lead by a Certified Arborist.   Participants are encouraged to bring a tablet or smartphone and will be shown how to identify trees, edit data, and a lot more using GreenprintMaps.  Digital technology is not required to enjoy the trees and the tour. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================= Tuesday, August 27  6:30pm -8:00pm., McKinley Park. Meet under the elms, near the tennis courts near the picnic tables.  Join the after-work mulching party at McKinley Park. Volunteers are needed to help care for the park by applying mulch rings around the park trees. The Sacramento Tree Foundation will have wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Monday, September 9 6:00pm -8:00pm., McKinley Park. Meet near the Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd. Join the after work mulching party at McKinley Park. Volunteers are needed to help care for the park by applying mulch rings around the park trees. The Sacramento Tree Foundation will have wheelbarrows, gloves and rakes. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events ======================================================== Monday,  September 23  McKinley Park Tree Tour 6:00pm-7:30pm., McKinley Park. Tour Begins/Ends: Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento 95816 Join the Sacramento Tree Foundation for a tree tour of Sacramento's beloved McKinley Park. The tours will begin near the Shepard Garden and Art Center parking lot. The tours will be lead by a Certified Arborist.   Participants are encouraged to bring a tablet or smartphone and will be shown how to identify trees, edit data, and a lot more using GreenprintMaps.  Digital technology is not required to enjoy the trees and the tour. For more information, contact Anne Fenkner, Sacramento Tree Foundation (916) 974-4303 or visit www.sactree.com/events           ==============================

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