The Coastal Gardener

Avocados are a staple. Every person who opened an avocado has probably put the pit (seed) into water and hoped for a tree to harvest their own. Reality check: Avocado growing doesn't work that way. Yes, you might get a tree, and yes, after 10+ years it may produce fruit under the right conditions.

About: Powdery mildew is a group of fungal diseases that afflict a wide variety of plants. There are many species of fungi (e.g., Erysiphe spp., Sphaerotheca spp. Golovinomyces cichoracearum) that infect plants and cause the suite of symptoms we commonly call powdery mildew.

Gattone, Toni. THE LIFELONG GARDENER, GARDEN WITH EASE & JOY AT ANY AGE Timber Press, 2019 Portland, Oregon 214 pages. Who can resist a book whose preface begins, The year I became a Master Gardener, I couldn't wait to apply the information I'd learned so I could transform my garden.

Winter is coming and what is more satisfying on a cold winter day than a bowl of nourishing hot soup?

Do you wonder what seasonal gardening tasks should be done month-by-month? Or what seasonal pests to be looking out for? The Humboldt/Del Norte Master Gardener Help Desk Team is providing you with some tasks that will help you maintain and grow beautiful edibles and landscape plants.