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Fresno Gardening Green: Article

This week in the garden: Sept. 13 - 19

September 13, 2024
If you don't have a fall or winter garden, prepare for spring planting. Tasks Repair damaged spots in cool-season lawns (such as tall fescue) by scratching with a rake, seeding and covering with mulch. Keep moist until the new grass seedlings are well established.
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A female praying mantis, Mantis religiosa, pops up between the petals of a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. Surprise! (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Jackie-in-the-Box

September 12, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
In your childhood, somebody probably gave you a jack-in-the-box toy, a music box that you crank up, and then the lid springs opens and out pops a wildly dressed clown, startling you and everyone around you. A praying mantis sighting is something like that, but without the music box.
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Tulare County Cooperative Extension: Article

2024 Advances in Pistachio Production Short Course

September 12, 2024
November 5-7, 2024 Visalia Convention Center, Visalia, CA Designed for orchard decision makers, the Advances in Pistachio Production Short Course includes presentations from UCCE Farm Advisors and Specialists, covering pistachio production topics, such as pistachio cultivars, field preparation, plan...
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A migrating monarch butterfly stops on Halloween, Oct. 31 to sip nectar from a milkweed in a Vacaville garden. She was on her way to an overwintering site in coastal California. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

A Halloween Surprise: A Migratory Monarch

September 11, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's beginning to look a lot like...Halloween. If you haven't noticed, stores are gearing up for Halloween with assorted ghosts, goblins and ghouls for you. We remember Halloween 2023 when a female migratory monarch fluttered into our pollinator garden.
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fertilizer tank
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Managing Fertigation Videos

September 11, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Informational Videos Covering Fertilizer Application through Irrigation Water Now Available in English and Spanish Nicole Nunes FREP Grant Program Through a grant from the Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP), Cal Poly's Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC) has developed a seri...
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