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Cultivate Your Passion: Enroll in the 2024 Master Gardener Training Class
If you love to garden, have an interest in lifelong learning, enjoy sharing your knowledge and are committed to community service, the Master Gardener program might be the place for you. The UC Master Gardener Program of San Joaquin County offers...
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Nurturing Agriculture and Communities: The San Joaquin UC Cooperative Extension
California's San Joaquin Valley, often referred to as the nation's salad bowl, is a cradle of agricultural abundance. This region, with its fertile soil and temperate climate, has been instrumental in feeding not only the state but also the nation and...
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Water Tips for Gardening in Very Hot Weather
This last year of unpredictable weather of up and down temps, hot and cold, some rain and dry weather, did not bode well for this gardener and maybe not for others. In my neck of the woods of the San Joaquin Valley (Stockton), spring began with...
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Pests of the Season - Fall 2023
WEEDS: Broadleaf weeds Once they take over your yard, weeds are difficult to manage or eradicate. Pioneer plants, or “weeds”, as we know them, grow in bare soil, and even though they perform fundamental ecological functions like...
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Fall Garden Chores - October, November, & December
Gardening provides serenity, exercise, produce, and beauty that changes with the seasons. What's not to love about getting outside, putting our hands in the soil and watching what we plant grow into healthy specimens? Wanting to do a little planting now...
UC Garden Blogs
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Bohart Museum Open House: What You Should Know About Mosquitoes
If you've been following the breaking news about the invasive mosquito, Aedes aegypti, detected recently in Yolo, Solano and Sacramento counties--you can learn more about these disease-carrying mosquitoes at the Bohart Museum of Entomology...
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EVENT :: AAIE Conference
Anil Shrestha (Weed Science Professor, with the Department of Plant Science at CA State University, Fresno) will be speaking at the Association of Applied IPM Ecologist (AAIE) Annual Conference in Visalia, CA. His talk on "Managing weeds in an IPM...
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Infected citrus pest that spreads disease found in Ventura County
Residents urged to check their citrus trees for Asian citrus psyllid An insect carrying the huanglongbing bacteria, a pathogen that kills citrus trees, has been found on a residential citrus tree in Ventura County, according to the...
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Bohart Museum Open House: Learn About Mosquitoes, Ticks, Bed Bugs, Lice, and Fleas
You won't want to miss the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Household Vampires," targeting mosquitoes, ticks, bed bugs, lice and fleas. The open house set from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 23 in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge...