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Egg-cellent Gardens: Cultivating Success with Backyard Chickens
More and more home gardeners are discovering the joys of raising backyard chickens. Beyond the delight of harvesting fresh eggs at your doorstep, there's an added bonus – top-notch fertilizer for your garden. However, to harness this natural boon...
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Recipes from the Garden: A Taste of the Season
Recipes From the Garden: A Taste of the Season A roundup of soups welcoming in the New Year guarantees comfort and warmth this winter season. Maybe you have heard the hype: Trader Joe's mini wontons are the perfect dumpling to elevate your wonton soup...
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Plants of the Season
PERENNIAL SHRUB: Chinese hibiscus or tropical hibiscus. This is a gorgeous flowering shrub that will provide large beautiful blooms all summer and fall. There are over 200 species but the pretty variety you want goes by the name Hibiscus...
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Pests of the Season
A Weed, a Pest, and a Disease Yellow Nutsedge, a weed:Nutsedges are common weeds in our area, but not common in my garden. This past spring, however, brought an invasion of an unfamiliar grass-like weed that was overtaking an area normally occupied by...
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Horticultural Terms - Grafting
Reprint from 2017 Article by Budding and Grafting: Methods of plant propagation used to grow more than one variety, and in some cases, more than one species, of fruit on a single tree. Scion: A branch, shoot, or bud removed from one plant and grafted...
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Organic strawberry yields boosted by technique refined through UCCE research
Anaerobic soil disinfestation helps suppress weeds, disease without fumigants Troubled by puny plants, low yields and persistent mite problems, third-generation Southern California strawberry grower Glen Hasegawa was ready to give up on his transition...
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Admiring the Red Admiral
One of the first butterflies we see in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in midwinter is the Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta. Yes, this butterfly overwinters as an adult. It's picture-perfect with black wings, red bands and white spots....
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Invasive plant time bombs: A hidden ecological threat
Non-native species can wait decades or centuries before spreading Invasive plants can stay dormant for decades or even centuries after they have been introduced into an environment before rapidly expanding and wreaking ecological havoc, according to a...
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Sol Wantz Sheds Light on Jerusalem Crickets and Other Insects
Those Jerusalem crickets aren't as scary as some folks imagine them to be. UC Davis third-year entomology student Sol Wantz, an intern at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, and an...