Store Hours
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| 8:30am to 6:30pm at all Sloat Garden Center locations except as noted below:
- Danville:
Mon-Sat: 8am-6:30pm, 9am to 5pm on Sundays
- Pierce Street:
9am-6:30pm
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April in the garden
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Not sure what to do in your garden this month?
From pruning, to planting to
weeding, check out our list! |
Earth Day Celebrations
at Sloat Garden Center!
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We'll be celebrating Earth Day at three different Sloat Garden Center locations on April 22nd. Please join us!
Earth Day Ladybug Release in Danville!
12-1pm.
Visit us in Danville on Earth Day and learn about good and bad bugs in your garden. Help us release thousands of ladybugs into the nursery. Kids can also paint and plant a pot. Lots of fun for the whole family!
SF Ladybug Celebration!
9am to noon. Sloat Blvd (SF) location.
Celebrate ladybugs, other beneficial insects and the plants they love. Learn about local beneficial bugs and insectary plants, play games and win prizes. All kids welcome: ages 0-18. Call to let us know you'll be there and receive a free coloring book, plus beneficial bugs, to take home to your garden.
Earth Day Ladybug fun
in Mill Valley!
9 to 10am. (Miller Avenue location).
Come celebrate ladybugs for Earth Day! Learn about the life cycle of ladybugs with our ladybug release and coloring party!
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Plant a Good Bug Tub for Earth Day
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Pesticide reduction starts in your own backyard by supporting "good bugs".
Many "good bugs" can help manage pests that munch prized plants. These beneficial insects are natural predators or parasites of other insects. If the beneficials stay around your garden, they can be powerful allies, helping to keep in check the three percent of insects that are pests. What does this mean for you? Fewer pests, less pesticides or none, and the foundation for an interdependent-and very interesting-garden ecology. If, on the other hand, you spray pesticides that kill many kinds of insects, the good bugs are killed, too. With their natural enemies gone, pest populations bounce back with a vengeance.
Good bug tubs are great for gardeners with small or large spaces.
This month, visit our Sloat Blvd and Mill Valley (Blithedale) locations to see planted up Good Bug Tubs.
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Spring Time is Soil Time!
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Good gardening = good soil. Read more about Sloat Garden Center soils here.
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* Planting seeds with kids information here. * Gardening activity ideas for kids here. |
Kitchen Gardener
e-newsletter
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If you missed last month's issue of the Kitchen Gardener e-newsletter, we discussed growing and cooking blueberries. Read it here... |
Pottery of the
month: April
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Our pottery of the month is all green pottery, including sugarcane (pictured above). We love to plant up this vibrant, spring green in the warm months. Visit any Sloat Garden Center to see the selection. See more Sloat Garden Center pottery here:
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April is the month to get dirty and get planting! We have so many flowers, shrubs, trees and ready-to-plant edibles at all our locations...and we're bringing in fresh plants each week. See the latest arrivals here.
Also for April, we invite you to rediscover the joy of growing your own food. Learn more about growing delicious edibles in containers here.
Sloat Notes:
* Join us at select Sloat Garden Center locations to celebrate Earth Day with ladybugs on April 22nd. Also, we invite you to plant a Good Bug Tub for Earth Day. One way to encourage visiting beneficial insects to become permanent pest patrollers is to grow flowers that produce lots of nectar and pollen. With your help these beneficials will have food when pest populations decline. See left column for more information.
* New gardening seminars have been scheduled for April. Read left column for details!
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Our March / April newsletter
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Inside: all about mini-gardens, new plant introductions, plan to can, indoor gardening, cool weather tomatoes. Read more here...
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Sedum
With all the spring flowering plants to choose from, why pick Sedum? It just so happens that many are native to California. This workhorse of a plant is well suited to our climate, thriving along the cool coast to well inland where conditions are hotter and drier.
They are also resistant to frost.
As the common name Stonecrop implies, these succulents require little soil or water. They can be planted as ground covers, tucked into crevices between pavers or in stonework, and used in miniature gardens. They are also a major component of livingroofs and vertical gardens. By the way, not all Sedum are low growing spring bloomers, there are a myriad of taller growing varieties that bloom in the late summer and fall. The huge blooms are beloved by bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. These taller types die to the ground in the winter and are better placed in perennial and garden beds.
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Garden Guru: April
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Dear Garden Guru,
What are the pink, flowering plants that are growing up the sides of so many San Francisco homes? They get to be very tall and seem to grow like a vine. Also, what are some big evergreen plants/trees for a small shady patio that will fill out the area in green/flowers all year round? Thanks for your help! Nicole in San Francisco
ANSWER: For our answer, visit the Garden Guru More questions for our garden guru? Ask away on our Facebook page! You can also ask questions by emailing the garden guru here. |
April Gardening Seminars
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Tomato Tomata
Norma Novy, soils and garden enthusiast, helps us get our groove on in all things tomato.
April 4 - Sloat Blvd., Wed., 6:30pm
April 15 - Mill Valley (Miller Ave.), Sun., 10am
April 15 - Novato, Sun., 1pm
Salvage Gardening
Mary TeSelle returns to tell us how to use and repurpose household objects and building components in a quite contrary way.
April 14 - Mill Valley (Miller Ave.), Sat., 10am
April 18 - Sloat Blvd., Wed., 6:30pm
Citrus Pruning
Welcome back Elizabeth Ruiz, aesthetic pruner. Elizabeth will guide us through the steps on how to train and shape our citrus trees for fruit production, shape, and health.
April 15 - Danville, Sun., noon
Pruning the Acid Lovers: Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Camellias, and Hydrangeas
Our favorite pruner, Elizabeth Ruiz, returns one last time this season to explain and show us how to shape and prune these most daunting plant subjects.
April 29 - Danville, Sun., noon
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