The Savvy Sage

The Spring 2025 Yolo County Master Gardeners Plant Sale will take place on Saturday, April 5 and Saturday, April 12, from 9 am - 1pm, rain or shine.

Every spring, Yolo Master Gardeners sell tomato seedlings the first two Saturday mornings in April. This year, the sale features thirty-five varieties, fifteen of which are new to the sale. With rapid climate change, summers are getting hotter and heat waves longer.

As a small child, each year I would find in my Christmas stocking, a fresh orange, which was a special treat to be looked forward to amid the English winter. Now living in California there I still experience that delight in picking fresh navel oranges from a home garden tree to eat or juice.

I think of dahlias as plants that can suit any personality. Are you a person who likes to make a splash whenever you walk into a room? You might find that a fire engine red dinner plate dahlia is just the thing for your dramatic garden.

Every year at this time, when my Eureka lemon tree is laden with more lemons than I know what to do with, I invite my friends over and we turn those lemons into limoncello.