Under the Solano Sun

Please join us for a Rose Class-put on by Sterling S, UCCE Master Gardener. See the photo for details.

What's the best time to begin teaching kids about composting and feeding the soil instead of the plants? Now! And the perfect book to do it is, Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth.

A few years ago I attended Ken William's Irrigation class at Solano College. One evening the class was re-piping the overhead sprinkler system in the greenhouse. Pipes were cut out and replaced and during this process there were a few plant casualties.

Be careful what you wish for. Last fall I moved to Vallejo and bought this cute little house off of Georgia Street. It had a good size front yard and a large backyard. I wanted a yard to put in a garden and a green house.

As we prepare to prune back our roses in January, it's fun to imagine them fully blooming once again in the coming spring. We might even be tempted by all those catalogs arriving in our mailboxes, to invest in a new bush or perhaps a climber or a rose tree. I must admit, I'm very tempted.