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, read our list!
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Kitchen Gardener
e-newsletter
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In last month's Kitchen Gardener e-newsletter, we talked about growing and cooking with cilantro. Read the Kitchen Gardener here.
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At Sloat Garden Center we deeply believe gardening is good for the planet -- we urge gardeners to plant something this Earth Day.
Another way to celebrate Earth Day is to keep chemicals out of the garden when trying to get rid of harmful insects. Instead, manage pests by using one of the oldest and most successful methods of pest control on the planet; attract beneficial insects that will prey on pests. Ladybugs, lace-wings, praying mantis and beneficial nematodes will eat nuisance insects. They truly are "good" bugs!
You can attract the beneficial insects that feed on plant eating critters by creating a environment for them to live, feed and lay their eggs.
Good bug tubs are great for gardeners with small or large spaces. Read more here:
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Pottery Color
of the month
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Our pottery color of the month is Atomic Red. This bold, bright red pottery will announce that spring has arrived in your yard or patio.
Visit any Sloat Garden Center location to see our large array of pottery. View more Sloat Garden Center pottery here:
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Call the Sloat Garden Center Design Department the spring. We can help you develop simple, success oriented, low maintenance planting plans for gardens, decks, and terraces, as well as provide indoor plant consultations. We can even help brainstorm unique garden ideas and problem solve gardening solutions.
To schedule an appointment, call us at 415-388-3754 or email us: design@sloatgardens.com.
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Our garden centers are absolutely bursting with gorgeous spring color. We have so many flowers, shrubs, trees and ready-to-plant edibles at all our locations...and we're bringing in more each week. See some of our latest spring arrivals here.
- Plant a Good Bug Tub for Earth Day (April 22nd). 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 our Good Bug Tub article below. -
Enter your best tomato or strawberry recipe in our Spring Recipe Contest! If chosen, your recipe will appear in our April Kitchen Gardener (about tomatoes) or May Kitchen Gardener (about strawberries), and we'll send you a $25 Sloat Garden Center gift card. Send your entry, along with a picture of the finished dish, to: recipes@sloatgardens.com by Friday, April 5th, 2013. We will contact the contest winners by April 15th. - Free membership has rewards! Learn about Sloat Garden Center's new reward program.
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 Join Sloat Garden Center for Tomato Time: April 12th through April 21st -- a celebration of tomatoes! We'll have:
* 50+ organic tomato varieties
* Mighty Mato, the grafted tomato, returns!
* Tomato growing seminars and tomato growing information
Shop during Tomato Time for the most abundant selection of the season. April is the best time to plant tomatoes!
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March/April Gardener's Notebook
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Inside: Climbing vines, new bird feeders, Trixi Combinations, Compost tea, Coleus under the Sea and more... Read it here...
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Our April Plant Pick
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Polygala Petite Butterflies
This neat and compact shrub has become the new garden darling. Bright purple/magenta blossoms resembling sweet peas cover the plant from mid spring to fall. Use it as an informal hedge, foundation planting or container plant. This plant will take full sun to part shade and will tolerate seacoast conditions. Provide well- drained soil and monthly feedings with EB Stone All Purpose Fertilizer April through September. Cut back hard in late winter to maintain compact shape.
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Garden Guru: April
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Dear Garden Guru,
We have a dirt hill that backs up to open space. This year there is way more than usual gopher or moles, so many that I worry about the integrity of the hill. What is the best way to deal with them? I really don't want them to reach my flowers and vegetables.
-- Jo in San Rafael
ANSWER: Learn how we help solve this gardening challenge by visiting the Garden Guru.
Do you have questions for our garden guru? Ask away on our Facebook page. You can also ask questions by emailing the garden guru here.
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April Gardening Seminars
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Pruning and Maintenance of California Natives
Wednesday, April 3rd 6:30pm at Sloat Blvd
Saturday, April 6th 10:30am at Miller Ave. in Mill Valley
Tomato Growing Secrets
Join Norma Novy of The Soil Sisters and Brad Sheehan,
the Vegetable Guy, for a talk on all things tomato
Saturday, April 13th, 1pm, Miller Ave., Mill Valley (Norma)
Saturday, April 13th, 12 noon, Danville (Brad)
Wednesday, April 17th, 6:30pm, Sloat Blvd. (Norma)
Home Composting for Busy People
Join us for a 90 minute workshop on composting
and vermicomposting conducted by the Central Costa
Contra Solid Waste Authority
Sunday, April 21st, 12 noon - 1:30pm, Danville
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