Garden Notes

Silver bells and cockle shells, how does your garden grow? One chore per week, just four per month, to keep a garden growing. April Ideas ONE Check all of the sprinklers and drip lines to be sure they are working properly and not wasting water.

Master Gardeners are a statewide, even nationwide, community of people who love to garden and who willingly share what they've learned in an effort to make gardening inclusive, enjoyable, and fulfilling. In this larger community of like-minded people, we often share articles with one another.

You should inspect healthy and unhealthy trees on a regular basis. Although some tree failures are not predictable and cannot be prevented, many failures can be prevented. Large trees have a greater hazard potential than small trees and should be inspected more frequently and in greater detail.

Since the drought of the late 1970's, the University of California researchers, UCCE San Joaquin Master Gardeners and many others have compiled an arsenal of resources and tools to help the California gardener cope with a Mediterrean climate and all too-frequent droughts.

Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) is an aromatic perennial plant of the Lamiaceae family that grows throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.