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WHO LOVES POPPIES!!!

Time for Planting California Poppies

December sowing gives poppies a head start for brilliant early-spring blooms.

🌼 Tips:

• Scatter seeds on top of soil
• Keep moist until rains start
• No fertilizer needed

🌱 MG Tip: Once established, poppies reseed and naturalize beautifully.

For more information about California Poppies, click here:

https://class.ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/FactSheet_Flower_California%20Poppy_2021.05.24.pdf



ucanr.edu/sites/RiversideMG

Photo credit: Pam Elias

Wait to prune these most stone fruit

Do not prune apricots (and cherries) now.

While winter pruning is encouraged for most (stone & pome) fruit trees it is not ideal for apricots or cherries.

We encourage you to mark your calendar for apricot & cherry pruning in late summer.

"Apricots should be pruned in late August to allow time for the pruning wounds to close. This will help to prevent Eutypa fungus from invading the tree. Allow 6 weeks prior to the beginning of winter rains for wounds to close." http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/CULTURAL/apripruning.html

"Eutypa dieback, also known as Cytosporina, gummosis, and limb dieback, causes limbs or twigs to wilt and die suddenly in late spring or summer with the leaves still attached. Rough dark cankers may develop at pruning wounds. The bark has a dark discoloration with amber-colored gumming."

More info: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/DISEASE/eutypadieback.html

California Farm Water Coalition Food Grows Where Water Flows

Love the desert 🏜

Seed Starting Tips Plus How to Care for Seedlings Read our most helpful advice on starting plants from seed and taking care of seedlings, including how to transplant them.

Way to go

Massive wildlife overpass opens in Colorado - The Wildlife Society Completed in under a year and below budget, the new crossing improves safety

⏰ Happening TOMORROW! ⏰

🔧 Free Hand Tool Maintenance & Repair Workshop 🔧

Give your garden tools a second life! Join us tomorrow, Saturday, January 3, from 9 a.m. to noon for a hands-on workshop focused on sharpening, restoring, and maintaining hand tools.

✔️ Bring your favorite pruners, shovels, or old tools
✔️ Learn from experienced instructors
✔️ Free and first come, first served

📍 LandUse Learning Center
4500 Glenwood Dr., Riverside

👉 Register now: http://bit.ly/432UTFD

And don’t forget—our Master Gardeners will be on-site to answer your gardening questions!

Heal the Bay Aquarium Experience the Santa Monica Bay! Heal the Bay’s public Marine-Education Center!

👋🌿 Stop by and Say Hello! 🌿👋
We’ll be at the Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival with a booth full of fun, information, and ways to connect with the Cosumnes River Preserve. Come meet our team, learn about our work, and say hello — we’d love to see you! 💛

📍 Where: Hutchin Street Square Community Center - 125 S. Hutchins Street, Lodi, CA
📅 When: November 7th, 8th, and 9th