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MR. ED’S TIPS:
Deer Proofing:
If deer have been eating the flower buds off your agapanthus, one of our Half Moon Bay garden friends has come up with a solution. When the buds are 1 ½ to 2 inches long she drops a plastic bag over them until the buds start to open and the deer leave them alone. She uses sandwich bags or saves plastic bread bags and uses them.
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Contact Information:
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Telephone:
(650) 368-5908
Address:
492 Woodside Road
Redwood City, CA 94061
Hours:
Sundays
8 am to 5 pm
Mon-Sat
8 am to 6 pm
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Be a Guest Gardener:
Gardeners love to learn from other gardeners "over the fence". We would love to include a tour and/or an article from one of our readers! |
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FEATURED QUOTE :
"Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise."
~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com
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Save gas and time and come to Wegman’s Pumpkin Patch.
Make it a family outing--choose your pumpkins, fall decorations, and have the kids enjoy the Cosmo Jump!
The Pumpkin Patch offers...1st quality pumpkins in all sizes, gourds, colorful squash and mini pumpkins, hay bales, Indian corn, cornstalks and other decorative accents.
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Everyone knows about or thinks of tulips and daffodils (Narcissus) when we speak about spring flowering bulbs. But, there is a large group of so-called Minor Bulbs which also bloom in the spring. Believe it! There is nothing minor about these bulbs!
For greatest success with any bulbs, the soil should be amended with 2 inches of Gold Rush or Bumper Crop plus a dusting of gypsum and Master Start. All three items are then roto-tilled or dug into a depth of 6 to 8 inches. As a general rule the bulbs are planted at a depth of three times their length. Also, many of these "bulbs" are actually corms, rhizomes, tubers or fleshy roots. For simplicity, we just call them all bulbs.
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Ranunculus (Persian buttercup)
They will produce 10 to 16 flower stems per bulb over many weeks in colors of red, yellow, white, orange and blends of those colors. They make wonderful cut flowers on 16 inch stems and produce more flowers per bulb than any other plant. The roots (bulbs) should be dug each year unless you plant them in an area that gets no summer water. Ranunculus will be a work free addition to the landscape in an area near established drought tolerant shrubs such as Manzanita or Ceanothus.
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Sparaxis (Harlequin flower)
These are the smaller cousins of iris in all colors except blue and once planted, you have them forever. Sparaxis multiply through producing more bulbs and scattering seeds. When they cross pollinate, the array of colors multiplies and after several years you will have an unbelievable palette of colors. Sparaxis will naturalize under deciduous trees such as birch where they benefit from late winter and early spring sunshine. They bloom on 12 inch stems, good for cutting in late spring.
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Galanthus (Snowdrops) and Leucojum Aestivum (Summer Snowflake)
These are the first plants to bloom in spring. Scattered under trees and shrubs which provide light shade, the white flowers provide a bright accent against dark tree trunks or ferns. They co-exist with their neighboring plants and the bulbs don’t need to be divided for many years.
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Dutch Iris
Dutch Iris are the perfect complement to daffodils. When daffodils are planted, the Dutch iris bulbs can be dropped between. They bloom as the daffodils are finishing and their foliage will hide the browning foliage of the daffodils. Both Dutch iris and daffodils are absolutely deer and gopher proof, which is a bonus for some gardeners. Dutch iris need full sun and once planted will multiply and come up year after year. The colors of their flowers are in shades of blue or yellow and white on 18 to 24 inch stems, ideal for cutting.
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Ipheion (Spring starflower)
This is the most carefree bulb plant we know. Each bulb will produce 3 to 8 flower stems and 4 to 8 new bulbs each year. The flowers are blue on 3 to 5 inch long stems. These little plants require only winter rain and can be planted in areas which get no summer irrigation. A novel use is to plant two or three bulbs in the lawn. The leaves are grass-like and the flowers will bloom in the spring lawn. The leaves blend with the lawn and can be mowed all summer. The following spring, the cycle begins again.
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These are only a few of the Minor Bulbs available at the nursery. All are worth trying as are freesias, watsonias, anemones and many of the others. Spring can be one of your most colorful times of year! |
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 Wegman’s is a proud sponsor of the South San Francisco and Palo Alto Light the Night Walks. For the third year Wegman’s will provide the Memorial Garden.
The Palo Alto Walk is Saturday, October 4 at Palo Alto High School. Registration begins at 5 pm and the walk at 7 pm.
The South San Francisco Event will be at Oyster Point on Saturday, October 16. Registration and festivities begin at 5 pm and the walk at 7 pm.
Light the Night is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s nationwide annual evening fundraising walk to celebrate and commemorate people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Participants walk along a two-to-three mile route in their neighborhoods, carrying lighted balloons, white for survivors and red for supporters.
You can click on the link below for additional information.
South San Francisco Details
Silicon Valley/Palo Alto Details
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Mandevilla is great trellised in containers or in hanging baskets. Quantities of fragrant flowers compensate for sparse foliage and for the care mandevillas require. The flowers are produced in early summer and again in early fall, even when plants are very young. Outdoors, grow mandevillas in sun or partial shade. They need rich, well-drained, sandy soil with humus added. Provide a frame, trellis or stake for support. Pinch young plants to induce bushiness.
In late winter or early spring before growth begins, prune by removing old, crowded stems and shortening others. Even if mandevilla is pruned almost to the ground, it will bloom the same.
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The genus name cyclamen is derived from the Greek word kyklamenos which means "circle form." I'm not sure whether this refers to the circle at the tip of the flower or to the round shape of the tuber from which sprouts forth this unusual plant. Cyclamen have been a popular cultivated plant since Plato's time, the fourth century B.C.
The genus Cyclamen resides in the Primulaceae family. This same family is home to about 20-30 genera such as primula (primroses), dodecatheon (shooting stars) and lysimachia (loosestrife.)
The cyclamen plant is considered a tuber. A flowering size plant has a tuber that averages about 2"-3". To grow hardy cyclamen in the garden, they need very good drainage! If you remember nothing else about growing these marvelous plants, that must be remembered.
The second most important thing to remember about growing cyclamen, keep the top of the tuber at the soil level. Keeping a layer of grit around the tuber serves a threefold purpose. First of all, it makes it rough for our slimy enemy the slug to travel over and to get the leaves which are a delicacy. Second, it keeps standing water away from the top of the tuber during rainy periods which can cause rot. And third, it provides a dry surface upon which the maturing seed capsules can rest and drop their seeds to germinate.
The first flower buds appear at the end of August. Appearing before the leaves, they flower over a long period of time. Most plants flower in a deep, clear, vibrant pink. There are, however, some white flowered forms and they are just as clear and pure in color as the pink ones. White forms will almost always come true from seed if the parent plants are isolated from the pink ones.
That’s another great quality about cyclamen: once you see how beautiful the flowers are and realize how easy they are to grow, you're going to get hooked and crave more of them!
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Easy Livin’ Master Green Lawn Food (25-6-4)
Prepare for the cooler weather; take some time to feed your lawn. Easy Livin’ Master Green Lawn Food is a granular fertilizer designed to produce a rich green lawn and a sturdy root system. Feed your lawn about every 60 days during the growing season.
Available in 20 lbs for $20.99 and 32 lbs. for $30.99
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Wegman’s also has Annual Rye grass seed available for those who like to over seed their lawns for winter.
$1.09 per pound. A pound covers 1,000 square feet. |
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Trivia
Question: When the Chinese were building the fifteen hundred mile long Great Wall Of China, they sustained themselves on __________ pickled in wine.
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Question, answer, and winner from September 18th
edition:
Question: Which vegetable has the highest content of beta carotene (vitamin A) of all vegetables?
Answer: Carrots
This week's winner: Sherry Blackburn
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- 1 pound dry fettuccine pasta
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 cup chopped green onions
- 1 cup chopped parsley
- 1/2 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1/2 pound scallops
- 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Step by Step:
- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente.
- Meanwhile, pour cream into large skillet.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until just about boiling.
- Reduce heat, and add herbs, salt, peppers, onions, and parsley.
- Simmer 7 to 8 minutes, or until thickened.
- Stir in seafood, cooking until shrimp is no longer transparent.
- Stir in cheeses, blending well.
- Drain pasta. Serve sauce over noodles.
Yield:
6 servings
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