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Welcome Master Gardeners! This page is only accessible by the Calaveras County Master Gardeners using your VMS passwords. We can use this page to enter VMS, to store files, and to create a custom internal website just for us.

Calaveras County Master Gardeners Hotline: 209-754-2880 - Messages can be left at anytime. A Master Gardener checks it every day. Help Desk: Only Wednesdays - 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Phone: (209) 754-6473 Email: calaverasmg@ucanr.

Calaveras County Master Gardeners' Help Desk 423 E. St.

The Master Gardener Program began in Calaveras County in 1985, just a few years after the California program began in Sacramento. We currently have around 70 Certified Master Gardeners volunteering their time to educate our community about home horticulture and always new Master Gardeners in training.

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Continue to rake up leaves for composting and to control pests and diseases. Clean up garden beds. Keep an eye on the weather report, protect frost-tender plants when the temperature falls below 32 degrees. Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.

Keep an eye on the weather report - protect frost-tender plants when the temperature falls below 32 degrees. Divide perennials like daylilies and chrysanthemums. Prune crepe myrtles, cane berries, and roses, and clean-up trimmings.

Above 2000 ft.: prune deciduous fruit trees, cane berries Below 2000 ft.: prune grapes, roses, crepe myrtle. Paint trunks of bare root and young fruit trees to prevent borers and protect from sunburn. Use interior white latex paint with equal amounts of water and apply generously.

Prune grapes and roses. Cleanup: remove mummy fruit and blighted limbs on stone fruit to reduce brown rot. Remove and destroy fallen leaves to reduce peach leaf curl. Mulch cane berries, cut out all old canes and reset new canes in twine.

Pinch chrysanthemums back to 6 inches every month through July. Trim dead flowers but not leaves, from spring bulbs. Mulch cane berries, cut out all old canes and reset new canes in twine. Cultivate and pull weed seedling now to prevent bloom.