Humboldt County Gardening

Miller’s is having four really great workshops this month:
Fruit Tree Pruning with Sam Polly on the 9th
Rose pruning with the Rose Society on the 16th
Growing and Pruning Berries on the 23rd
And Coastal Fruit Tree selection and care on the 30th.
Miller’s always put on a good show and I remember the Rose Pruning lecture I went [...]

From the Miller Farms Newsletter:
People have been planting by the moon’s phases for
centuries, in the belief that something in the lunar light or
gravity affects the way plants grow. Some of the gardening
chores you can do during the Decembers “New Moon Phase”
(increasing light of the moon) are: Repot and groom
houseplants, graft fruit trees, plant evergreen and [...]

In the next couple weeks, bareroot roses will be arriving in the nurseries. This is the perfect time to plant them because they get their roots established before spring and take off much more quickly than if you buy them during the growing season.
Need help choosing which to buy? Here are two articles that might [...]

UPDATE Dec 4th: Millers now also has Bahco loppers, hedging shears, a nifty and very slim little garden knife that would make an excellent stocking stuffer, and some other cool Bahco goodies. I am definitely going to be saving up and buying each of the new Bahco tools they have in the coming months, because [...]