Welcome to Garden Month 2022!
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Week 1
May 5, 7-8pm via Zoom
Soil is the Solution – Healing the Earth One Yard at a Time
Presented by UC Master Gardeners of Napa County
Learn keys to regenerating your garden soil. The choices you make in your garden have an impact on carbon sequestration and climate change. There has been much new research and information one this hot topic. UC Master Gardeners will give you ideas for methods and the motivation to nurture and improve your garden soil.
This is a FREE live zoom event but you must register to receive the link.
Register at http://ucanr.edu/2022MaySoilSolutionLibaryTalk
May 7, 10am-2pm
Compost and Plant Giveaway!
Napa RCD will be set up at CrossWalk Community Church with our friends from the City of Napa Water Division and the Western Monarch Society! We will have compost to share, as well as a pollinator plant container garden kit complete with milkweed plants, a 2-gallon pot, soil, and instructions for care!
Week 2
May 10, 10am-12pm
Guided Tree Walk
UC Master Gardeners of Napa County will be offering FREE GUIDED TREE WALKS at Fuller Park in downtown Napa. For 2022, walks will be held the second Tuesday each month April 12 – October 11.
You must pre-register to attend and space is limited to 12 people per each walk. Each person attending must register separately.
REGISTER HERE FOR MAY 10 TREE WALK
Please for everyone’s safety do not come if you are sick, have symptoms, have tested positive for COVID 19 or if you have been in close contact w anyone who has tested positive in the last 14 days.
May 14, 10am-3pm
Open Garden Extravaganza!
Napa RCD Board Member Jon Kanagy will be hosting an open garden to showcase the many aspects of climate-friendly gardening he has incorporated into his property. Cash for Grass Program? They did it! Replanting with native, drought-tolerant species? Done! Home compost? Happening daily! Raised vegetable beds? This garden’s got them!
The day will include not just the Open Garden, but also two workshops lead by City of Napa Water Division staff and the UC Master Gardeners of Napa County!
Workshop Schedule
10-10:30am:
Soil Health with Master Gardeners of Napa County
Drip Irrigation Conversion with Josh Stokes, City of Napa Water Division
1-1:30pm:
Soil Health with Master Gardeners of Napa County
Drip Irrigation Conversion with Josh Stokes, City of Napa Water Division
We will also have a few local organizations there to spread the word about the work they are doing to help gardeners in Napa County have thriving, water-wise, and beautiful home gardens.
The Open Garden is free, but registration is required. The meeting location will be provided in the confirmation email. Click this link to register.
Week 3
May 21, 10am-2pm
Compost and Plant Giveaway!
Napa RCD will be set up at CrossWalk Community Church with our friends from the City of Napa Water Division and the Western Monarch Society! We will have compost to share, as well as a pollinator plant container garden kit complete with milkweed plants, a 2-gallon pot, soil, and instructions for care!
May 21-22, 10am-4pm
CA Native Plant Society’s Spring Plant Sale!
CNPS Napa County will offer plants that were not available at their fall sale, or that sold out quickly. They will have a wide variety of plants (perennials, shrubs both large and small, ground covers, and bedding plants that provide color and/or habitat) for a variety of growing conditions found here in Napa. Plants at the sale are either grown by CNPS Napa members or supplemented with plants from nurseries that grow California natives. The focus is mostly on drought-tolerant species that will help restore and provide habitat for our local pollinators. These include manzanitas, ceanothus, yarrow, monkey flowers, penstemons, and salvias, to name a few.
Week 4
May 28, 11am-1pm
Greywater Use in the Garden & a Refresher on Irrigation with special guest from Napa RCD to talk about FireWise Landscaping.
Held on-site outdoors at our new Las Flores Learning Garden, a City of Napa and UC Master Gardener partnership, located at 4300 Linda Vista Avenue, Napa. At the corner of Linda Vista Avenue and Culpepper Street. We encourage attendees to bring gloves and wear gardening attire. Plan on opportunities to participate with hands-on activities in the garden.
Note that the event will be canceled if it is raining that day.
Space is limited please REGISTER below for May 28, 2022.
The UC Master Gardeners will be offering monthly educational events on various horticultural topics on the last Saturday of each month at the Las Flores Learning Garden, 4300 Linda Vista Avenue, Napa. For more information on upcoming events and to register see the UC Master Gardener website https://napamg.ucanr.edu
**Fill out THIS FORM if you are interested in having your garden in the 2023 tour.**
Bay-friendly gardens have one or more of the following features:
- Drought-tolerant
- Wildlife habitat
- Heritage oaks
- Chickens, honeybees, or other animals
- Composting
- Orchards, vegetable beds
- Rainwater harvesting through rain barrels and rain gardens
- Creative re-use of materials
- Art
- Greywater systems
- Permeable hardscapes
Presented by Napa County RCD, City of Napa, Town of Yountville, and UC Master Gardeners
Questions? Contact us!