Topics in Subtropics

Topics in Subtropics Blog

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Ojai Pixies?

August 3, 2022

By Ben A Faber

Lisa Morehouse https://www.kqed.org/news/11919000/ojais-famous-pixie-tangerine-struggles-to-survive-wildfires-and-a-hot-real-estate-market On his organic orchard in Ojai in May 2022, Jim Churchill picks the last of the season's Pixies.

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Avocado Varieties and Rootstocks

August 2, 2022

By Ben A Faber

August 17 (1-3 PM) Live Seminar and Hybrid Zoom Topic Speakers: Mary Lu Arpaia - UC Riverside Extension Specialist/Plant Breeder Avocado Varieties: Current status and crystal ball gazing towards the future Consuelo Fernandez - Brokaw Nursery R&D Manager Performance of Commercially Available Rootstoc...

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What's that Weed?

August 1, 2022

Useful Weed Identification Tools The UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program's website contains many useful features to help identify pests and problems in the garden and home.

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gopher Crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher

Gopher Farmers

July 29, 2022

By Ben A Faber

Eric Hamilton Eric.hamilton@ufl.edu Root-farming gophers might be our closest agricultural relatives Although you'll probably never see them, you can spot them by the tell-tale mounds of sandy soil dotting a field: pocket gophers.

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Beneficial Wasp Coming Our Way?

July 25, 2022

By Ben A Faber

Kym Pokorny - Oregon State University Destructive Pest of Cherry, Grapes, Peaches, Blueberry, Fig and Lots of Other Fruit to Come Under Wasp Control? Corvallis, Ore.

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