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Take a break from holiday prep to continue planting cool-season veggie seeds and seedlings.

A recent San Diego Union-Tribune "Garden Mastery" article featured our very own Joyce Gemmell's favorite cool crops for local winter gardens.

 
 

 
  Check it out here:


 
Tis the season to plant poppies, gift gardeners and much more!
 
 
(just in case you weren't busy enough this month)


 
Ever wonder how something so small can be so destructive just overnight? Snails and slugs are the bane of many gardeners.
 
Question: 
What should I do to prevent leaf curl on my peaches and nectarine trees?
 
Answer:
Now's the time to spray.
 
Here's how:


   
Our organization is committed to making gardening accessible to everyone. MG Stephen Cantu shares the 7 principles of "FIG" ("Friendly Inclusive Gardening") in this recent U-T article:



 


 
San Diego is so well known as a mecca for a diversity of attractive plants, especially native species, that we're  featured on a Wisconsin Master Gardener website!


 
 

(BTW, now is the optimum time to plant your own  natives.)




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