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Recipes from the Garden: A Taste of the Season
Nothing beats the winter blues better than a steaming bowl of soup. Soup can warm your body up from the inside out while chasing a dreary winter day away. Soups are so versatile, whether as a lunchtime meal, a first course, an appetizer for a winter...
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Winter Landscape Chores: A Seasonal Guide
Winter, a season often associated with tranquility and hibernation, presents challenges for gardeners and landscape enthusiasts. While the garden may appear dormant, much must be done to ensure its health and vitality. By performing essential winter...
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Transforming Your Landscape: Part 3
As cooler weather finally arrives, bringing a refreshing break from our valley's scorching summer, it's a welcome shift for both us and our gardens. If you've been following my series on transforming my front...
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Horticultural Terms: Autochory Seed Dispersal
In the last few blogs I have highlighted two different methods of seed dispersal: myremochory (via ants and eliasome) and epizoochory (via animals). Remember, the sole purpose of a plant and its seeds is to reproduce! Since I like to read the...
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Help Desk—Planning a Pollinator Garden
Question: I want to plan a pollinator garden and was wondering what I need to do? Planting a pollinator garden is a good thing to do because pollinators have been in a decline for several decades. No insects will result in no food. About three-fourths...
UC Garden Blogs
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Learning About the Importance of Blow Flies Through Maggot Art
Young artists learned about the importance of blow flies last Saturday at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house as they engaged in maggot art. Under the supervision of UC Davis Entomology Club members Riley Hoffman and Emi Marrujo, the...
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Best Practices for Using Glufosinate in Hops
Reposted from the "Weeders of the West" blog with author's permission. Marcelo Moretti summary of research on glufosinate best practices in hops (direct link to article). -Brad Best Practices for Using Glufosinate in Hops Posted by...
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No Bumble Bee Winner Yet
Update: No bumble bee winner yet. No announcements as of today regarding the winner of the fifth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble Bee-of-the-Year Contest, sponsored by the Bohart Museum of Entomology. The gist of...
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Stinknet spreads because it’s a difficult weed
Stinknet (Oncosiphon pilulifer) is an annual weed spreading aggressively in the southwestern US. This species was first found in North America the early 1980's in Southern California and it continues to spread aggressively in California and Arizona and a...