Fresno Gardening Green

Cool fall mornings invite you to enjoy a stroll in the garden with a cup of something hot.

Now that the weather is consistently below 90 degrees F, you can start to fertilize your roses again, if necessary. Don't fertilize just to fertilize.

The look of neighborhood yards has changed radically these last years. Landscape designs that feature highly-manicured, constantly trimmed, raked, and groomed lawns and planting beds are disappearing, by necessity.

Pick a bouquet of herbs in the early morning to retain flavor. Keep them in a vase and use them all week. Tasks Monitor soil moisture after rain and water if needed, especially for trees and shrubs. Renovate cool-season lawns remove thatch and aerate.

In 2020, when libraries were shuttered due to COVID-19 and the public, sequestered at home, began developing greater interest in gardening, an idea took form in the mind of Clovis Library assistant Amy Johnson.