Fresno Gardening Green

Create a visual feast with pomegranates, miniature pumpkins, Indian corn, gourds, fall flowers, and herbs from your garden The tuberous roots of sweet potatoes will be ruined if the foliage is damaged by frost.

Pumpkins make great Halloween and fall decorations, but don't throw out your pumpkins as fall turns into winter. Pumpkins are versatile and can provide a variety of products. Best of all, it is easy to grow pumpkins from your seeds.

Shorter days mean there is less time to spend in the garden. Peruse gardening websites, magazines and seed catalogs instead Stake newly planted trees in windy areas Clean up debris to eliminate hiding places for pests (if necessary).

Chaste trees (Vitex shrubs Vitex agnus castus) are extremely popular in our area and for good reason - they are consistently great performers. So, it's surprising that Vitex shrubs are so infrequently seen, a missed opportunity to be sure.

Last season's torrential winter rains provided a much-needed relief from 20 years of drought.