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Garden Checklist: Protect plants during extreme heat
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The Garden Check- list is filled with tips and tricks for local gar- deners who wish to keep their greenery, flowers, and herbs looking beau- tiful all year long.
Relax. Beat the heat with a cool beverage while enjoying your gar- den from indoors.
Tasks during this very hot time of year include protecting de- veloping tree fruit from birds and squirrels by placing netting over trees.
Continue deep water- ing of fruit trees and cit- rus to insure a good fruit
crop.
Tie and train climb-
ing plants, including those in the vegetable garden.
When pruning, dead- head annuals and peren- nials to encourage new growth and blooms.
Divide iris every two to four years and save new rhizome growth to replant.
Fertilze lightly and actively growing plants. Give special attention
to container plants. When planting in the summer heat, it can be truly formidable in the San Joaquin Valley. De- lay unnecessary, so de- lay planting until cooler
weather. Bulbs, corms, tubers: naked lady (Am- aryllis belladonna).
Enjoy these now, an- nuals and perennials: lily of the Nile (Agapanthus), floss flower (Ageratum), amaranthus, aster, La- gerstroemia (Crape Myrtle).
Bulbs, corms, tubers: naked lady, canna.
Fruits and vegeta- bles: apricots, beans, blackberries, corn, cu- cumber, peaches.
Things to ponder, the San Joaquin Valley is largely made up of zones 8 and 9. Consider this when selecting plants for your garden.
Permeable hard-
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tomers would wait for their parts.
The other place my dad would visit was the Sanger Nursery. He liked going there to make his keys and pick up random items for the house.
I remember also walking around the Sanger Nursery. Fasci- nated by all the tools.
Fast forward some 35 years to last week. The other day we received notice that the Sanger Nursery was closing its doors.
I felt a sense of sad- ness, and immediately
scapes allow water from irrigation or rainfall to stay in place in the landscape, rather than running off into gutters and storm drains. Exam- ples include pavers and bricks without mortar or grout, decks, crushed rock or gravel.
Source, adapted from “A Gardener’s Compan- ion for the Central San Joaquin Valley,” 3rd edi- tion, currently available from Fresno County Master Gardeners for $30.
Gardening Questions answered at (559) 241- 7534. Prepared by Judy Parker, Fresno County Master Gardener
remember going there with my dad as a child.
This business was in- deed a staple in the com- munity.
The Sanger Nurs- ery was there before Walmart moved in across the street. I re- member only a large field across the street from the nursery. On the corner of Bethel and Jensen was a small fruit stand.
They will close their doors sometime in Au- gust. There is a lot of history in our small towns, that is one place that will stay with me forever.
Last weeks answers
FCCLA
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FCCLA stated that it strives to be the ulti- mate leadership expe- rience for its members
by enhancing career pathways initiatives.
For more informa- tion on Reedley's FC- CLA visit fcclainc.org or contact advisor Lisa Bueno at Bueno-l@ kcusd.com
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