Event: September General Meeting
Speaker: Ernesto Sandoval
Topic: Healthy Roots for Happy Shoots: Soil and Container Media Management
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025 • 7 p.m.
Location: Shepard Garden & Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento
Ernesto Sandoval will discuss the importance of understanding and managing the variables of temperature, moisture and oxygen, pH, as well as nutrients and salts. In an easy-to-understand format, he will explain why and how pH matters for nutrient uptake, why oxygen is so important for roots, and help us understand the roles that roots play in keeping plants healthy and thriving.
Ernesto 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.
