Organic calendar for February 2012

This is the month to prune fruit trees and companion-plant vegetables.

Garden Calendar

Tsugawa Nursery: 410 E. Scott Ave., Woodland. Events are free unless noted. * Register: 360-225-8750 or http://tsugawanursery.com.n 11 a.m. Jan. 21: Defining a deciduous bonsai to enhance its winter silhouette.n 11 a.m. Jan. 28: Learn pruning and dormant spraying of fruit trees.

Martha Stewart: Potted citrus trees capture the sun for gloomy winter months

Your orange, lemon or lime tree can grow in a container, thriving indoors during cold-weather months before basking outside in spring and summer.

Home and Garden Digest, Feb. 4, 2012: UCSC farm will ease blueberry worries

Farm will ease blueberry worries The UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden is introducing a class on blueberries 10 a.

Citrus Restrained By Nursery Tree Shortage, Greening Fears

The Florida citrus industry is stuck in neutral and could remain there through the end of the decade. The state's grove acreage, ravaged since 2004 by hurricanes and the deadly citrus greening disease, already stands at the lowest point since 1966, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture began counting citrus trees and acreage.