Under the Solano Sun

Blog article by Paula PashbyIt is a great feeling to have veggie seedlings tucked into their new home in my garden. I double-check my sketched-out planting plans and take one last walkthrough to make sure all the plants are set for the growing season - everything looks good! I love anticipating another…

I came across the UC Master Gardener program about eight years ago, while walking along the Vallejo Farmers Market on a Saturday morning. A small table with small stacks of cards and flyers with information on all manner of gardening topics, from composting to vegetable gardening, to watering, to drought…

Blog by Karen MetzRecently, I headed to a local nursery.  It was a beautiful day, and I had a list of things I needed.  I also had two gift cards; life doesn’t get much better than that. Since it had been so long since I had been there, I had to go up and down each and every aisle. I was…

Blog by Melinda NestlerodeIn July of 2020 we had a huge pool removed from our backyard (see Under the Solano Sun Blog Post “New Beginnings”, August 21, 2020). The kids had grown up and moved on, and we felt that there were more productive uses for our backyard space. Naively, we believed we would have the…

Blog article by Michelle DavisIn March of 2014, a very dear friend gave me a cutting of her huge jade plant, Crassula ovata, actually a 4 to 5-foot tree, that she had on her west-facing front porch. She had planted the cutting in a 12-inch ceramic pot with a good drainage hole and had used a bagged succulent…