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What to Plant This Month- January
 
January is all about bare-root planting and spring bulb and seed ordering!
BARE-ROOT: Bare-root plants are typically produced more economically than containerized plants, and that savings is often passed on to you! Look for good buys on fruit and nut trees and shrubs, landscape trees and shrubs, artichokes, asparagus, berries and roses. To help you select fruit varieties, visit the Dave Wilson Nursery website. Preeminent wholesale grower, Dave Wilson Nursery, supplies fruit, nut and berry varieties to local retail nurseries. Also see University of California's Backyard Orchard Page and Peaceful Valley Farm Supply's bare-root selection.
SEEDS & BULBS: Order seeds and bulbs for the summer garden. Summer bulbs (and tubers) start showing up in stores toward the end of January. You can plant now if weather permits and soil's workable, but most gardeners wait until early spring (after frost danger has passed). Many seeds can be started indoors now (see seed package for best planting dates). Don't have a greenhouse for starting seeds? Use a domed seed-starting kit like the one pictured at left.
ANNUALS: If your yard is crying out for some color, cool-season annuals come to the rescue. Look for pansies, primrose, Iceland poppies, ornamental kale, forget-me-nots, snapdragon, sweet peas, stock and more.
PERENNIALS: Cyclamen, tuberous members of the primrose family, are blooming now and many nurseries offer a wide selection. Cyclamen do best under an overhang where flowers won't become rain-spotted.

VEGETABLES: Plant transplants of asparagus (crowns), endive, broccoli, leeks, lettuce, bulb onions, peas, radish, rhubarb, and spinach. Want to know which veggie seeds you can start indoors now? Print out this handy UC Vegetable Research & Info SEED-STARTING WORKSHEET, grab a calendar and start calculatin'... You'll need the avg. last frost date, coverwhich VictorySeeds.com lists as March 23 for Sacramento and April 13 for Auburn.


More Resources:
Yearly Vegetable Planting Calendar
UC VRIC Table 2: Vegetable Gardening at a Glance: How to Plant and Store (pdf file, requires Adobe  Reader)
Vegetable Gardening
LAWNS: Minimize foot traffic. Have weeds been a problem? UC IPM Pest Note 74113 teaches you the least-toxic ways to reduce lawn weeds.

LANDSCAPE TREES: While not the ideal time (earlier in fall is ideal) for planting containerized landscape trees, you can, weather permitting. Visit the Sacramento Tree Foundation's website for the lowdown on Sacramento area trees. Also see my picks and the City of Sacramento's Tree Planting Guide. If you're a SMUD customer, you may qualify for free shade trees! Click here to see what trees are being offered the Sacramento Shade Program and how to get them. Wait until Spring to plant citrus.

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