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Horticultural Terms - Frass
FRASS: noun. A term meaning debris or excrement left by the larval stage of insects especially caterpillars and wood boring insects. It can be visible to the naked eye depending on the size of the insect leaving its' debris. Entomologists initially used...
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The Garden Gate…..Opening Doors in the Community
Eating Local The tree has been dismantled, the ornaments packed away, and the Christmas sweater you have worn too often lately is now hiding in the closet. It has been a season of too many cookies, candies, and holiday parties. Welcome to...
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Gifts From the Garden
Now that we are harvesting and bedding down our gardens for the winter, our thoughts may naturally turn to sharing or “gifting” some of our bounty. Distinctive and personalized gifts can come straight from our garden, but if you are like me,...
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Growing Knowledge, A Book Review of The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard
Tree rings reveal age, Earth's atmosphere reflects the state of its own health, and waterways move to the tune of a changing ability to support life. The ground upon which humanity stands also discloses itself in a myriad of ways: the quiet seasonal joy...
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Recipes From the Garden: A Taste of the Season
Recipes From the Garden: A TasteWinter soups can warm up the chilliest of nights. Think of these as bowls of comfort; guaranteed to keep your family filled up and cozy. The one pot lasagna soup has all the richness of lasagna with layers of cheesy...
UC Garden Blogs
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Protecting hazelnut trunks from herbicide injury
Sucker control in Oregon hazelnut orchards is a season-long struggle against the tree's natural growth habit. Hazelnut trees grow naturally as a multi-stemmed bush, but in Oregon, hazelnuts are trained as a single-trunk tree to facilitate mechanical...
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UC Davis Seminars: Two USDA Forest Entomologists to Zero in on Bark Beetles
There's so much to know about bark beetles! How can a tiny insect wreak such havoc in our forests? Two USDA forest entomologists will be presenting in-person and virtual seminars at the University of California, Davis on Tuesday, Jan. 31 and Wednesday,...
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Oh, That Elusive Cabbage White Butterfly
No butterfly. No beer. Blame the rain. Blame the cold. As of today, Jan. 26, no one has won Art Shapiro's "Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest," aka Suds-for-a-Bug. Not Art, not anyone. Shapiro, a UC Davis distinguished professor of...
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Diabolical Ironclad Beetle: Crush It With a Car and It Still Survives
If you attended the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house last Sunday on beetles, you may have seen what Bohart research associate Brittany Kohler displayed: a live diabolical ironclad beetle, Phloeodes diabolicus. Curious visitors crowded around the...