Napa Master Gardener Column

By Denise Seghesio Levine, U.C. Master Gardener of Napa County Even if you are busy harvesting and giving away zucchini, picking tomatoes for salads and sauces and preserving summer's sweet fruits for winter treats, it is time to take a break and plan next year's garden.

By Cynthia Kerson, UC Master Gardener of Napa County For the past few years, I've been researching beekeeping. Recently, I decided to simply supply the bees with food and to let them live where they naturally would.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County The tomato hornworm that so many gardeners detest has a beautiful future if we let it be. After a winter spent underground and when it is done with metamorphosis, it will become one of the loveliest and largest of the moth species.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County I was recently at the garden of one of my fellow Napa County Master Gardeners, Cindy Watter, and was amazed by her wonderful Brugmansias (Solanaceae) and their huge blooms.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Napa County Master Gardeners had many compost classes planned for last spring. Then the shelter-in-place order came through.