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On Sunday 11/15/26 at noon at the Corralitos Grange Hall:

Ernesto Sandoval Live Seed Growing Demonstration

Ernesto will share his tips, and tricks for improving seed germination in a special live demonstration.

If you haven’t tried growing from seed, or if you are looking for ways to increase your success rate, check out his presentation, which will include a hands-on demo.

He will share seeds of succulent plants.

Participants will take home a pot of sown succulent seeds to watch them grow at home!

Ernesto Sandoval has been pondering and seeking answers to the question of why plants grow and look the way they do for nearly 40 years. Now he explains and interprets the world of plants to a variety of ages and from amateur to professional gardeners. He regularly lectures to various Western Garden Clubs throughout the year, particularly to succulent clubs throughout California. Desert plants are his particular passion within his general passion for plants. He describes himself as a “Jack of All Plants, Master of None” and loves learning from the experiences and passions of others and his own. Ernesto thoroughly enjoys helping others, particularly gardeners, understand why and how plants do what they do.

When he was about 13 he asked his dad why one tree was pruned a particular way and another tree another way. His dad answered bluntly, “Because that’s how you do it.” Since then, he’s been learning and teaching himself the answers to those and many other questions by getting a degree at UC Davis in Botany and working from student weeder/waterer to Director over the last 30 years at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, and now as a Graduate Student getting his Master’s (actually skipping to a PhD) in Horticulture and Agronomy at UC Davis with a focus on the propagation and cultivation of drought-adapted plants.

The Show and Tell category is Aloe.

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All are welcome!

Join us every 3rd Sunday of the month for informative and fun meetings @

Corralitos Grange Hall #487
165 Little Corral Way
Watsonville, CA 95076

There is plenty of parking near the hall and the building is ADA accessible.
Doors open at 11:30am
Bring your own lunch starts at 12:00pm
Meeting starts at 12:30pm

There is always an amazing plant raffle and other goodies!