Lake Tahoe Basin

Gardening for fire defensible space serves to limit the threat of wildfire spreading to or from a structure. It includes the selection and maintenance of plants and mulch for low fire risk. Sustainable fire-wise landscaping should be easy to care for with minimal irrigation.

A Tahoe Friendly Garden will utilize science-based knowledge and practice with climate and growing seasons, soil conditions, moisture, and pest control can help you grow your own vegetables and become self-sufficient! Home-grown food: food gardening at altitude in Lake Tahoe's granite soils can pres...

Tahoe Friendly Garden Presentations Tahoe Friendly Landscape Design 2023 Tahoe Friendly Garden Design 2023 Choosing the Right Plant Tahoe Friendly Gardening for Defensible Space Gardening through the seasons -- Spring in Tahoe 2019 Gardening through the seasons--Summer in Tahoe 2019 Gardening throug...

Most gardening books, catalogs, and seed packets refer to plant hardiness zones, climate zones, or growing zones. Temperature hardiness climate zones are based on normally expected high and low temperatures and serve as guides to help you know which plants will grow where you live.

Office Location: 1100 Lyons Ave, Room D-3, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 CalFresh Healthy Living, UCCE Nutrition Educators: Alejandra Giron agiron@ucanr.edu Cristina Luquin cnluquin@ucanr.

Advice to grow by Ask us! Thank you for your interest in the Tahoe Friendly Garden Project. It is a non-regulatory, voluntary sign-up administered by the UC Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe.

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Compost: A recipe for mudpies Start with Your Soil Yard Waste is Not Wasted Yard Waste is Not Wasted - Part Two Edible Landscaping, part 1 Edible Landscaping, part 2 Growing Food in Tahoe - A Christmas Valley Family Garden Growing Food in Tahoe - Workshops: A Year in Review Let's Talk Herbs Onion Ph...