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  • How about making a New Year's Resolution to start or expand your home vegetable garden?   January is the perfect time to plan your garden layout, start seedlings and start preparing the vegetable beds.   We offer our 6-week Sustainable Vegetable Gardening classes in three locations.  The classes run from January through March.
  • Mark your calendars!  Our 2009 Spring Garden Market will be held on April 4th at History San Jose at Kelly Park, 1650 Senter Road in San Jose.  Same great place as last year and an even wider selection of tomatoes and chiles for sale along with much much more.  Details to come soon.
  • Cool Season Vegetables
  • Cookbooks: Crazy for Citrus and Chile Head Sampler are both available now!
  • Read the latest "Ask a Master Gardener" column in the San Jose Mercury News.
  • Looking for the tomato or chile pepper (PDFs) varieties we sold in 2008? Or view our guides for growing great tomatoes and peppers.
  • Oriental Fruit Flies have been found in the city of Santa Clara. Information about the eradication program begun on August 20, 2008 and a map of the treatment area can be found at this Santa Clara County website. Californians are asked not to bring home fruit or vegetables from your travels. This pest is harmful to agriculture, home gardens and California's native environment.
  • There's still a quarantine due to the light brown apple moth in portions of Santa Clara County. Visit the Santa Clara County web site for more information. Residents are asked not to move plants or produce from their home gardens within the quarantine area.
  • Support the Master Gardeners by making a donation.

Becoming a Master Gardener

Are you interested in becoming a Master Gardener? The next application process will be in summer of 2010.  If you:

  • are a Santa Clara County resident who would enjoy sharing gardening knowledge, and
  • want to learn more sustainable gardening practices,

then you might be a good fit for the program. If you think it sounds interesting, learn more about the process and call us to be notified about information meetings for the 2011 class.

MG Handbook

The California Master Gardener Handbook is an invaluable reference tool for all California gardeners. It's available for sale on-line or in our San Jose office.
MG Handbook