“Winterizing” Your Garden – Villager Fall Class Series Prepare your garden so well this fall that it will reemerge healthy and vigorous next spring. Cut back perennials, tie trees and shrubs, prepare your lawn and “Fertilize with Biosol in Fall.” While it is...
In the 2002 July-October V30 3/4 Issue of FREMONTIA – a journal of the California Native Plant Society, there was a terrific article by Robbin W. Thorp, Peter C. Schroeder, and Carol S. Ferguson: Bumble Bees: Boisterous Pollinators of California Native Flowers....
Kellogg / G&B 15th Annual Free Planting Days Join us FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, May 31 & June 1, 10 AM-2:30 PM. Create colorful flower baskets and bountiful herb pots to enjoy all season. Here’s how it works… 1. You purchase the flower, herb or veggie plants...
We desperately need fuels reduction work throughout and all around our community. USFS and Tahoe Donner have been doing some terrific projects in quite a few outlying, surrounding locations but we need a great deal IN town, especially open spaces and public lands....
April in Truckee and Tahoe teases us. While it is a GREAT time to plant wildflowers, hardy vegetables and herbs, over-wintered dormant plants from the nursery, it is too cold to bring in trees and shrubs from warmer climes that have leaves. April’s average...
What a year, weather-wise. It finally stopped snowing in late June and we had snow and lows in the single digits by early September. November was largely kind of nice, for a winter month. When we received snows they were very cold. Unless you turned your irrigation...
