The Stanislaus Sprout

In August we featured an article by former Environmental Horticulture Advisor, Ed Perry, called "Save the Right Seeds." This article discussed how to successfully choose which vegetable seeds to save to plant in your garden next year.

Ready to learn more about pollinators? If you took our Virtual Native Pollinators class, you learned about the local native bee pollinators and hummingbirds you might see in your backyard, and what kind of plants they prefer.

Planning to get your fall garden started? If you missed our live presentation of the Fall Vegetable Gardening class, you can now watch it on our YouTube Channel! Fall Vegetable Gardening was recorded on August 25, 2020.

Some of the seeds from plants growing in your garden may be worth saving, but others are genetically incapable of producing satisfactory crops.

It's been a buggy spring and summer in my new garden, where I've encountered varieties of scale, aphids and flies I hadn't experienced before. About 18 months ago we moved to a new house in a new neighborhood.