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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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Electrical weed control in organic blueberry - Oregon State cooperators
Several of us are part of a multi-state project on electrical weed control in organic blueberry and orchard crops. Tong Zhen is the lead grad student researcher on the UC Davis part of the project and we are working closely with our counterparts at...
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Monarchs and California Golden Poppies: Color Them Orange
Monarchs and California golden poppies...Color them orange...Color them bold...Color them beautiful... And color them natives... The California golden poppy, Eschscholzia californica, California's state flower, is popping up all over, while...
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Lagoon Fly: Seeing Spots
Ever seen a lagoon fly? It's a syrphid fly, Eristalinus aeneus, distinguished by small black spots patterning its eyes. Syrphids, also known hoverflies or flower flies, hover over a flower before foraging....
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Understanding cattle grazing personalities may foster sustainable rangelands
Matching herds to landscape can support animal growth and ecological needs Not all cattle are the same when it comes to grazing. Some like to wander while others prefer to stay close to water and rest areas. Recognizing those personality differences...