Riverside Drive Cleanup & Beautification Project

KTMB Great Clean Up date is May 2nd. Sign up to volunteer here:

KTMB Volunteer Opportunities — Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful Join KTMB for our Golden Eagle Cleanup on March 29th, 2025, or save our yearly events to your Google Calendar: The Great Community Cleanup, Bicentennial Flower Planting, and Truckee River Cleanup.

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It's winter and these bright cold days remind me that the next phase is spring, when the ground warms and plants begin to emerge, greening as they reach for the sun. I'm waiting.

The Biggest Little Bulb project lives! This is your leader Debe Fennell, and I'll be your point of contact for the planting event. I've managed these gardens for 10 years and work closely with City Parks and KTMB to help make Reno beautiful. You can help: Saturday Oct. 18 from 9am to noon will see Rotarians and other volunteers planting 1600 tulips along Riverside Drive. To help us bring a hat, water and sunscreen. We;ll supply tools and vests, water and directions. We'll have bags of bulbs to plant along the street...please be aware of traffic on the street.Here's sign-up google form link:
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Remember...This Saturday (9/13) we're meeting at Lundsford Park, not Bicentennial. Street parking. This is near Hub Coffee on the west end of the Riverside gardens.

September 13th is the date for the next Clean Up with KTMB. 9-noon. Stay tuned for the link to sign up or go to KTMB.

We have an “Early Lawn Care Pamphlet” we would like to share with you! Click here - https://bit.ly/3G969aQ 🌱🌱🌱Learn our steps for a great lawn👇 Help your lawn wake up and grow well. As the snow melts we rake through the beige dead grass blades and we rake up the pine needles, sticks, pinecones, and old leaves. This lets in air and sunlight to discourage fungi above and to warm the soil below. Now is a great time to rent a deep-tine aerator to plug the lawn before fertilizing, top dressing, and repelling moles. The holes help get oxygen to roots which is essential and allows for the compost, fertilizer, and castor oil granules to go deeper into the soil. We apply Mole-Max castor oil (granules or liquid) now to deter the moles before they begin to hunt for worms in earnest. We spread a light spring fertilization with slow-releasing, organic, and biologically active G&B Lawn Fertilizer. AND we spread Topper fine-screened finished mature compost over the lawn to feed, warm, speed decomposition of old blades, hold moisture in the soil, and to make a lawn look better immediately (the dark behind the new green).2 cubic foot bags of Kelloggs Topper cover about 200 square feet each and are Buy 4, get 1 Free. We also have a couple of compost spreading rollers that we loan out with a purchase.For more information click here - https://bit.ly/3G969aQ 🌱🌱🌱We have 3 palettes of Topper currently in the Nursery and 6 more palettes on their way here this week! Villager Nursery Kellogg Garden #lawnmaintenance #lawncaretips #truckee #mountaingardening #coldclimategardening

Clean up day April 13th from 1 to 3pm on Riverside Drive. Bring some gloves and come help us spruce the flower beds up for spring. The daffodils are already bloomig!

Midseason Sales. Refresh your summer color and plant shade trees - Sierra Gardener - hardy perennial are plants always happier in the ground than in pots. Mid-Season Sale! According to NOAA, Truckee's "frost free period" ("less than a 15% chance of frost") is July 15-August 15. We'r

The next clean up day at Bicentennial Park & Riverside Drive is April 7th, starting at 8am til noon, followed by a BBQ at Bartley Ranch. Here's the link to volunteer:

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It’s going to get chilly tomorrow morning, especially over 5k feet. Cover your tender plants. When it warms up tomorrow mid morning, uncover. I use pots, tarps, old shower curtains, sheets, towels. Whatever suits the plant’s situation. If it’s clear you might see an aurora boriealis tonight.