With September here, time to prepare for fall gardening (Las Vegas Review-Journal) With nights cooling and new growth emerging on established shrubs, it's a great time to plant vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees and shrubs. Fall planting means fewer plant losses next summer. Here are tips to make gardening easier.

Green Thumb club to hold gardening class (Fond du Lac Reporter) The Green Thumb Garden Club of Fond du Lac will hold a gardening class on Wednesday, Oct. 8, and Thursday, Oct. 9, at American Legion Post 75, 500 Fond du Lac Ave.

Gardening enthusiasts sought master gardener class (South Side Journal) Do you enjoy gardening? Do you have experience with gardening and a desire to learn more?

ON GARDENING: Sedges give texture, beauty to landscape (Bradenton Herald) Words like bronze, copper, orange and toffee describe a great group of plants that will really strut their stuff in the next few weeks. They look pretty doggone good the entire gardening season, but the grass-like plants we call sedges also hold great promise for cool-season landscapes.

Gardening may help lower grocery costs (High Plains Journal) Since we all have to eat, lowering grocery costs isn't always easy to do--unless you try gardening, that is. "Growing our own food may be one of our best defenses against high grocery costs," commented Samantha Snyder, Horticulture educator for the Oklahoma County OSU Cooperative Extension Service.

Search for excellence (The Union) The gardening needs of Western Nevada County are as diverse as its natural setting and its inhabitants.

Eagle Co. opts for greener gardening (Vail Daily) Neils Lunceford landscapers Red Waldron, left, and Corey Brown work on the Eagle County Xeriscape project Tuesday at the county building in Eagle. EAGLE, Colorado — Horticulturist Laurel Potts has a message about Eagle County’s new landscape project at the county administration building in Eagle.

Gardening Anywhere, Tools and Ideas for Smaller Spaces (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - Whether it's five stories up in an apartment building or in a tiny backyard, it's possible to grow greenery. As long as there is access to water and sunshine, people with the desire to add a little plant life to their living space can break out the watering can and create a green space.

Gardening for food independence (The Garden Island) A new program at Kaua‘i Community College offers tips on how to start a home garden and a chance to vet those skills in a community garden.

Time to start thinking about autumn gardening (The Record-Courier) Unbelievably, it is time to start thinking about autumn, at least in terms of caring for our plants. The average first frost date is Sept. 15, but in colder areas or microclimates, freezing temperatures are likely to occur sooner.