NEW! Check out our new Vegetable Planting Guide! 
Learn what and when to plant throughout the year in Placer County.

Growing Vegetables During a Drought
For a list of the best vegetables to grow during a drought and tips for taking care of them when water is limited, click here.

Visit the UC Vegetable Research and Information Center.

Vegetable Planting Guides

• Vegetable Planting Guide 2025

Preparing Your Vegetable Garden

• Growing Vegetables in Less Than 6 Hours of Sun
• Preparing for Your First Spring Garden
• Preparing the Soil for a Vegetable Garden
• Use of Manure in Vegetable Gardens
• Vegetable Garden Basics (UCANR)
• Vegetable Garden Irrigationv2
• You Can Grow a Successful Vegetable Garden This Summer

Planting and Caring for Vegetables

• 2022 Sum Whats Wrong With My Tomato
• Ask a Master Gardener--What Does F1 Hybrid Mean
• Basic Tips for Vegetable Garden Success
• Blossom-end rot
• Creating a Salsa Garden
• Fall Vegetables
• Indoor Starts vs. Direct Sown
• Maximizing Your Basil Harvest
• Organic Seeds
• Perennial Vegetables
• Plant a Colorful Late Winter_Early Spring Garden
• Planting in the Winter
• Seed Packets--The Revealing Truth
• Seed Starting Supplies--the Old, the New, the Cheap
• Tomato Blossom Drop
• Tomato Nematodes
• Tomato Problems
• Vegetable Crop Rotation
• Vegetables in the Winter Garden
• When to Plant Your Vegetables

Harvesting and Storing Vegetables

• Harvesting Seeds from the Garden
• Storing Your Harvest
• Tips on Harvesting Veggies

Vegetables A to Z

• Growing Cabbages
• The Nightshade Plant Family
• Potatoes
• Tomatoes In The Home Garden #31-159

Growing Herbs

• Integrating Culinary Herbs into the Garden
• The Multi-Purpose Herb Garden