- Author: Pamela M. Geisel
Lye cured, water cured, pickled, salt cured, kalamata, black olives, green olives...how do you know what to do to make safe home cured olives? Come find out from the experts!!! Bill Krueger, UC Olive Expert and chair of the UC Davis Table Olive Symposium will be conducting a workshop on home olive curing and will describe the many methods that you can use at home to create those delicious snacks. The workshop will be on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Historic Mills Orchard Ranch located at 7782 County Road 16 in Hamiltong City, CA. (Near Chico, CA) Cost is $30.00 per person and includes olive tasting, refreshments and home olive processing guide. Checks can be made payable to UC Regents and mailed to...
- Author: Pamela M. Geisel
The California Center for Urban Horticulture and the California Master Gardener program have partnered with Burchell Nursery to bring you Your Sustainable Backyard: Fruit Trees on Friday August 20th at Burchell Nursery in Oakdale, CA. We’re very excited to have the workshop hosted at a nursery and hope that you will join us for this exciting learning opportunity. Our workshop will focus on selecting trees, planning for your home orchard, summer pruning and staking, and troubleshooting pests & diseases. A highlight for the day will be a fruit tasting and...
- Author: Pamela M. Geisel
Every year, I try to keep my tomatoes up off of the ground by installing a trellis system in advance of the tomatoes needing to be trellised. My usual system is the "post and twine" system in which 2 inch posts are pounded into the ground using a stake pounder at 10 foot intervals and then wrapping/weaving the twine around the poles at 10 inch vertical intervals. It works pretty well and I am not unhappy with it. However, the downside is that the cotton jute that I prefer to use because it is compostable stretches, sags and becomes brittle as you go through the summer. The plastic twine that most "growers" use works better but it has to be disposed of in the landfill since it isn't recyclable or compostable. This year, as an...
- Author: Pamela M. Geisel
This was a rough winter for young citrus trees. Many may have died and most did suffer from frost/freeze damage depending, the degree of which depending upon the duration of low temperatures this winter. At our house, it was 17 degrees F for at least 4 nights in a row and since we were out of town, there was no one home to either irrigate, put lights under the trees or cover them. They were on their own and they did suffer.
Several of the trees appear to have died but others are still green in parts, and others now have small young shoots that may grow out and become a tree one day. The questions to ask now is what can I do to help these trees recover?
The first thing is to go ahead and fertilize lightly with a...
- Author: Pamela M. Geisel
Local artist Laurelin Gilmore and the Sacramento Bee have teamed up to feature honey bee art and education at the Sacramento Bee on Saturday, May 8! Amazing honey bee art arrived from very talented and generous local artists. These pieces will be for sale on Saturday and proceeds will be donated to UC Davis for honey bee research.
Saturday May 8, 2010
3-8 PM
Sacramento Bee outdoor courtyard
2100 Q St., Sacramento, CA 95816
The Department of Entomology will have an observation hive on display, Sacramento Area Bee Keepers Association will have honey samples and we’ve got great educational tables where you can learn about our campus’ Honey Bee Haven garden and how you can support...