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2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar

It's here!

Our 2025 edition is on sale now.

For only $12 (plus postage) you can have a whole year of gardening advice delivered to your door.

We are here for you!

Video library of gardening topics.
Publications. Enjoy!
Facebook updated every day.
YouTube Channel with all the past Virtual Harvest Days and Master Gardener videos.

Snap a pic of your problem plant or mystery bug and email it to the Help Desk: mgsacramento@ucanr.edu

2024 holiday office hours

The UCCE Office will be closed:

Monday, December 23, 2024 through Wednesday, January 1, 2025 for end of the year holidays

December Horticulture Center Updates

In the WEL

December is a lovely time in the water-efficient landscape gardens at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center.

For more favorites, please visit our plant lists for Fall and Winter.

In the orchard

Spray peach and nectarine for peach leaf curl as soon as leaves have fallen.

Begin winter pruning. Protect citrus from frosts and damaging freezes.

See more December orchard tasks.

The vegetable garden

This is a good time to jot down how your summer garden did. Keep a journal!

Our 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar is the perfect place to record your gardening notes.

Backyard berries

Enjoy fall color on some blueberry varieties.

See more tips for December.

Grow herbs!

Rosemary is an edible garden winner. It's tough, drought tolerant, evergreen and need we say tasty! Whether you choose ornamental or culinary varieties, all are edible and all make a show with their blue flowers in spring into summer.