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Under the Solano Sun: Article

How to Garden When You Rent

January 25, 2023
The book How to Garden When You Rent, by Matthew Pottage (Dorling Kindersely, 2022 available for loan from the Solano County Library) is a good reminder that anyone can garden, regardless of whether you own a home, or rent a home, apartment or room.
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Strawberries and Caneberries: Article

Soils Saturated Heavily - What Now?

January 24, 2023
By Mark P Bolda
Along with the rising waters of the past few weeks, concerns about the status of our strawberries have risen as well. For their part strawberry roots, as you can see from paragraph #6 out of the book "Small Fruit Management by Galleta and Himelrick, depend on oxygen.
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This is a net-casting spider that UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Lisa Chamberland studies. (Image courtesy of Lisa Chamberland)
Bug Squad: Article

Lisa Chamberland: About Those Ogre-Faced Spiders....

January 24, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're curious about ogre-faced spiders, then you'll want to hear what UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland has to say about her research at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

My Goldilocks Plant

January 24, 2023
When we bought our Ming aralia it was this stumpy thing with almost no foliage, not my idea of a plant I'd like to own. Fortunately, my husband fell in love with the plant, and home it went. It has been living with us for years, in health, in decline (more on this later!), and renewal.
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Tree prunings on the street awaiting pickup.

Make hay while the sun is shining!

January 23, 2023
By Deanne Meyer
The weekend was lovely. Davis dried out sufficiently to get back into the garden and finish the important dormant pruning before trees aren't dormant! There are plenty of parts of California where people are still evacuated and unable to assess damage from weeks of rain and wind.
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An enthusiastic little girl (future entomologist?) buries her head in a beetle display at the Bohart Museum open house, much to the delight of UC Berkeley associate professor and carabid beetle specialist Kipling "Kip" Will. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Beetlemania at the Bohart: Something Clicked

January 23, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Something clicked at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on "Beetlemania" last Sunday afternoon at the University of California, Davis. But it was not the click beetles. That "click" was the love of science in general, and the love of beetles, in particular.
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