
Food Gardening Resources
FOOD GARDENING RESOURCES
NEW TO FOOD GARDENING?
- Growing Vegetables
- Sustainable Food Gardening
- Protect and Nurture the Soil
- No-Till Food Gardening
- Vegetable Seed Sources
WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN
- Year-Round Food Gardening in Sonoma County
- Vegetable Planting Summary
- Average First and Last Frost Dates for Sonoma County
- Vegetable, Fruit and Herb Articles
- Right Plant, Right Place, Right Time
- Choosing Vegetable Varieties
- The California Backyard Orchard
PROBLEM DIAGNOSIS AND INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM)
- UC Integrated Pest Management for the Home Gardener
- UC Davis Vegetable Research and Information Center
SEASONAL FOOD GARDENING
Also see “What to Plant and When” above

THE FALL AND WINTER GARDEN
- Cool Season Vegetable Gardening
- The Late Fall and Winter Food Garden
- Sample Vegetable Bed with Focus on Cool-Weather Vegetables
- Cover Crops
- Growing Salad Greens
THE SPRING AND SUMMER GARDEN
- Sample Vegetable Bed with Focus on Warm-Weather Vegetables
- Spring to Summer Succession Gardening
- Food Gardening with Less Water
- Sample Summer Vegetable Bed
- Conserve Water in the food garden
- Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden
FOOD GARDENING SPECIALIST (FGS) ZOOM MEETINGS
(Join us the second Tuesday of the month (except December) 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., for a FREE “Veggie Happenings” zoom meeting—pre-registration required. An FGS panel will make brief presentations on current food gardening topics followed by Q&A. Unique references, if any, for the two most recent zoom meetings follow.)
FRUIT TREE PRUNING (Steve’s January 2021 presentation on the basics of dormant fruit tree pruning)
- Fruit and Nut Trees, The California Backyard Orchard, University of California
- Pruning and Training, The California Backyard Orchard, University of California
- Fruit and Berry Articles, Sonoma County Master Gardener Website
- California Rare Fruit Growers, Redwood Empire Chapter
GROWING STRAWBERRIES, RASPBERRIES AND BLUEBERRIES (Fred’s and Kitty’s January 2021 presentations on planting bare root berries)
- Growing Berries, The California Garden Web, University of California
- Fruit and Berry Articles, Sonoma County Master Gardener Website
COVER CROPS (Cathy’s November 2020 presentation on growing cover crops to feed and protect the soil and to provide nectar and pollen to bees and beneficial insects)
- Green Manure/Cover Crops, Sonoma County Master Gardeners
- Grow Cover Crops to Attract Beneficial Insects, Add Nutrients, Suppress Weeds and Build Soil, UC Green Blog
- Cover Crop Data Base, UC/ANR
PUTTING THE FOOD GARDEN TO BED (Tobi’s November 2020 presentation on sustainable practices so that your garden is in its best possible shape for spring 2021 planting)
- Putting the Garden to Bed, Sonoma County Master Gardeners
- Important: Compost, compost, compost! Mulch, mulch, mulch!
The following books can be borrowed through Sonoma County libraries:
- Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2018
- Growing a Revolution, David Montgomery, W. Norton & Company, 2018
- The Soil Will Save Us, Kristin Olsen, Rodale, 2014
VISIT US
- UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County Website and Food Gardening Page (with monthly tips and tasks); página web en español
- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube
- Sonoma County MG Information Desk COVID notice: Currently, we are not accepting walk-ins or specimen drop offs at our Information Desk at the UCCE Sonoma office. Please send an email with your inquiry. Our Information Desk team is checking the emails regularly and will respond to your questions as soon as possible.