Garden Checklist:
The cooler
weather is perfect for working in the garden. Finish fall cleanup.Tasks: cut warm-weather grasses short and seed with cool-season grasses--annual or perennial rye or fine fescue.
Pruning: Deadhead and shape rose bushes to promote a final fall bloom.
Fertilizing: Do not feed citrus and other frost-tender plants.
Planting: winter and spring annuals and cool-weather vegetables from cell packs; snapdragon (Antirrhinum), English daisy Bellis perennis), campanula glomerata, chrysanthemum morifolium; vegetables from seed: beets, carrots; abelia, acacia, horse chestnut (Aesculus), strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo).
Things to ponder: There is a slight chance of frost in October, as the frost date varies from year to year.
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Garden Calendar for Fresno:
Curing and Preserving Olives--9:30 am, Saturday at the Garden of the Sun (1944 N. Winery Ave), 456-7285--$15.
Fall Plant Sale--benefits the Clovis Botanical Gardens--8:00 am to 1:00 pm, Saturday (945 N. Clovis Ave), 349-1811.
Fresno Catus and Succulent Society--meeting with Nels Christianson, speaking on succulent flora of Bahis, Brazil--7:00 pm, Oct. 1 (Deaf and Hard of Hearing Service Center Inc., 5340 N. Fresno St.), 252-2360.
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