Under the Solano Sun

UC Cooperative Extension County Master Gardeners (Solano & Yolo) are currently renovating the 900 square foot Willis Linn Jepson Native Plant Garden at the Pea Adobe in Vacaville.

In my journey with growing and propagating African Violets, I have learned a few things along the way. Such as: violets are not just the purple kitchen windowsill flower that most of our grandmothers and mothers had! African Violets come in almost every color (except yellow), and many sizes.

This last year we had to level our yard to address drainage issues that would have compromised our foundation. We removed the lawn and leveled the yard and now had a blank slate to work with, so we decided to create a berm.

Happy Valentine's Day! What are you giving or hoping to receive for the day? Maybe, some perfume or cologne? Scents, smells and odors are vaporized, volatile molecules of a substance (another body or maybe our own, a flower, some decomposing matter) that we take into our own bodies when we inhale.

I don't know about you, but I have never tried growing spinach before. I thought they are harder to grow especially in Vallejo where the temperature starts to warm up after the last day of frost. My good friend Darren Goon gave me some spinach seeds a few years ago and I never planted them.