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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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Don't Pinch Me! I'm Green
The metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon subtilior, need not worry about being pinched on St. Patrick's Day. It wears iridescent green all year around. The pollinator I photographed several years ago was then known...
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CC Edwards Elected Chair of Youth Professionals, American Mosquito Control Association
Carla-Cristina “CC” Edwards is going to be more busy than the "skeeters" she studies. CC, a second-year doctoral student in the lab of UC Davis medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, is the newly elected chair of...
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Olive growers, enthusiasts invited to UC olive webinar April 4
Growers and others interested in growing table olives or olives for making olive oil are invited to a California Statewide Olive Seminar on Friday, April 4. The online seminar, a series of presentations from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., is sponsored by the...
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Bohart Scientists Explain Venomous vs. Poisonous
UC Davis arachnologist James "Jim" Starrett answered scores of questions at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed "Poisonous vs. Venomous." They included: What is the difference between poisonous and...