The Stanislaus Sprout

In December, UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners in Stanislaus County offered library classes on planting and pruning deciduous fruit trees.

Knowing when to harvest any citrus fruit involves the question of its degree of maturity. Technically speaking, there is no ripening process in citrus fruits and no such thing as "tree ripe" fruit.

This past week, Master Gardener volunteers Alice and Crystal taught an Herbology class at the Modesto branch of the Stanislaus County Library on December 16, 2022.

Are you signed up for our Online Class, Marvelous Monarchs? You won't want to miss this.

Peach leaf curl, a fungus disease of peach and nectarine trees, is very common in home gardens. Cool and rainy weather provide ideal conditions for the spread of the disease. Recognizing the disease is simple, since it occurs only on peaches and nectarines and has very definite symptoms.