Under the Solano Sun

On a hot and smoky Saturday, equipped with a NIOSH N95 rated respirator mask, and a garden hat, I drove to the 2018 Harvest Day in Fair Oaks. The event was hosted by the Sacramento UC Master Gardeners. They called it A Gardener's Dream Day, and they were right on.

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Most people are familiar with a red pomegranate variety called 'Wonderful', which is commonly sold in most nurseries.

It's 99 degrees outside and I am pooped! The only chores on my list for today were moving and spraying the suckering growth around the base of my olive tree a joke on a neighbor's wrong id of the African Sumac tree in my front yard.

Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) just might be one of civilization's oldest crops.