Summer is a wonderful time for vegetable gardens, with plants thriving under the warm sun. However, it's also the peak season for pests, which can threaten your hard-earned harvest.
Soil testing is a helpful practice for gardeners aiming to achieve healthy plant growth and a bountiful harvest. Understanding the composition of your garden soil helps tailor gardening practices to meet the specific needs of your plants.
No matter what you grow - trees, shrubs, flowers, veggies, turf areas - they all require some kind of irrigation in our Mediterranean climate. We had a good and late rainy season this year, so our plants were happy when the growing season kicked off and moisture banks' were full.
Editor's Note: This blog post originally appeared on the Master Gardener Program of Alameda County website. Do you have space for a tree in the parking strip, that no man's land between the sidewalk and the street? If you do, there are many advantages to having trees grow in that space.
Spring is here, and it is time to think about fertilizing citrus and fruit trees, berries, flowering ornamentals, and vegetables. Decisions need to be made about whether to fertilize, what to fertilize, how much to fertilize.
