Rainy, cool weather is fast approaching for many parts of California. To help you determine what to do in the landscape during this time of the year UC IPM offers a Seasonal Landscape IPM Checklist. The online checklist provides monthly pest management to-dos for your region so you can prevent pests and their damage in the garden and landscape.

Here are some general pest tips for the month of November:

• Apply a preventive spray for peach leaf curl once or more AFTER leaf drop in the fall if peach leaf curl has been a problem on nectarine or peach.
• Manage weeds using nonchemical methods such as cultivation, handweeding, or mowing.
• Avoid pruning olive and oleander during wet weather if olive knot and oleander gall, or knot are a problem.
• Prevent root rot by not overwatering plants and improving drainage.
• If pines need branch removal, prune during October through January to prevent pine bark beetles, pitch moths, western gall rust, and wood borers.
• Monitor citrus plants for signs of pests such as Asian citrus psyllid or leafminers.

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Pest prevention tips for November.