It's Sacramento's best garden event of the year: Harvest Day, at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center in Fair Oaks Park. It's coming up next Saturday, August 3rd. Sacramento County Master Gardeners Judy McClure and Gail Pothour give us a preview. Dr. Norman Gary, author "The Honeybee Hobbyist." Upcoming garden events.

Master Gardener Pam Bone talks about the importance of nurturing your plants' roots; plus, tips on planting trees and shrubs. Want to control black widow spiders? Leave it to the mud dauber wasp. Upcoming garden events.

Baldo Villegas, entomologist and Master Rosarian offers summer rose care tips as well as what pests may be lurking in the garden now. Warren Roberts of the UC Davis Arboretum discusses July’s showy plants. Upcoming garden events.

Quentyn Young, Master Gardener and Manager of Fair Oaks Blvd Nursery, drops by with some tasty fruits and vegetables that might be a mystery to you. Best yet, you can grown them here. Controlling puncturevine (goat head weed). Upcoming garden events.

Steve Zien, Sacramento's Organic Advocate. Claims to be retiring. I doubt it. But to give him his due, I've brought him beer. As a result, he promises to share his best organic gardening tips with us today. Upcoming garden events.

We attend a blueberry tasting. College opportunities to study horticulture. Growing parsnips. A visit to Marlene "The Plant Lady" Simon's home garden.

Debbie Flower. Horticulture professor extraordinaire, helps solve our late spring/early summer garden woes due to the wildly fluctuating temperatures and record May rain. Eric Trygg of the Sacramento Bromeliad and Carniverous Plant Society. Warren Roberts on the showy June plants at the UC Davis Arboretum. Upcoming garden events.

Look around, and you'll see plants that are thriving in our hot summer sun. Don Shor of Redwood Barn Nursery talks about the best ones for our area. Blueberry tasting at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. Upcoming garden events.

Horticulture Professor Debbie Flower drops by to talk about warm season annuals and answer your garden questions. Master Gardener Gail Pothour explains straw bale gardening. Upcoming garden events.

The rain in May is one for the record books. Nearly three and a half inches in downtown Sacramento, so far (normal is less than an inch.) What are the ramifications for gardeners? Steven Zien of Living Resources Company has the update. Upcoming garden events.