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What Can Happen With Too Much Rain? And Mud? Rain is wonderful stuff. If it comes and washes the accumulated salts of the last several years out of the root zones of citrus and avocado, that's a good thing.

Planning and Planting the Small Orchard Block February 23-26, 2023 Course Overview This new short course will offer a wealth of information from orchard expert, Orin Martin, long-time manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden and instructor at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology.

U.S. EPA proposed changes to rodenticide labels for agricultural use: opportunity for public comment Roger A.

If the citrus fruit has a swollen stem end, it's called "sheepnose" and it's a swollen nipple or blossom end, it's also called "sheepnose". A swollen nipple is much more common. The fruit also tends to be coarse and the skin thick.

This odd pattern that has shown up on polyethylene irrigation tubing was sent in by an observant Santa Paula grower. The fruit trees were covered with aphids and there was sooty mold growing on the honey dew dripping onto the tubing.