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PHOTO OF THE MONTH: a quick update from the Chapman Elementary School on their 2024 gardening grant project:

The students have been learning about co-planting. This spring they will be planting a classic "three sisters garden", a combination of corn, climbing beans, and pumpkins. The corn provides food, but also acts as a trellis for the beans to climb. The beans provide food, but also add nitrogen to the soil to feed the corn and the pumpkins. The pumpkins provide food, but also shade the roots of the beans and corns so they stay cooler and require less moisture. What a great lesson!

See our school gardening grants page for more info (and to apply for a school grant during our next grant cycle)

Happy March! 🌷 🍀

Now is a great time to do the following:

• begin your indoor seed starting. Use a plant light (text/email Grant M for his favorite) or your sunniest windowsill to get started.

• direct-sow (plant directly in the ground outside) nasturtium seeds

• divide mostly dormant perennial plants (hostas, daylilies, asters, peonies, etc.)--pot up some divisions to donate to our annual plant sale in April!

• plant purchased cool-weather flowers like calendula, pansies, and sweet alyssum

• plant cool weather veggies like kale, Swiss chard, spinach, peas, cilantro and lettuce

• resume mowing your lawn as needed--use a low lawnmower setting (number 2) until it gets hot (then switch to taller settings like 3 or 4)

• plant summer-blooming bulbs like amaryllis (Hippeastrum), canna lilies, calla lilies, gladiolus, Asian and Oriental lilies, tiger flowers (Tigridia), and more.

• clean up any faded camellia blooms to tidy up and prevent disease

• prune leafy shrubs and summer-flowering shrubs (butterfly bush etc), but do NOT prune spring bloomers like forsythia and lilacs--you'll be cutting off their flower buds (prune them immediately after they flower)

• plant container-grown roses

• prune grapevines when dormant; pruning in spring or summer causes them to bleed sap

• plant container-grown perennials, trees, and shrubs

• start adding some liquid fertilizer to your houseplant watering regime (follow package instructions)

Updated February 2026! 🌟

For our March meeting, the club spent a lovely afternoon potting up divisions from members' gardens to donate to our upcoming plant sale, and we planted cute color spot plants into charming containers for the sale as well (April 18th & 19th at the Chico Home & Garden Show at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds)🌱

Click the small photos for a closer look