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ANR News Releases: Article

Pierce’s disease-resistant grape varieties give growers hope

August 22, 2022
By Saoimanu Sope
UC Cooperative Extension Ventura County recently hosted a Pierce's disease grapevine demonstration meeting at Ojai Vineyard, in collaboration with owner and long-time winemaker Adam Tolmach. Participants were invited to taste wines made from the new varieties as well as examine the vines.
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'Forest' of Milkweed - PPashby
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Monarch Butterfly Habitat

August 22, 2022
My family and I recently went for a walk through the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. There are beautiful gardens and tree groves where you can reconnect with nature and see others also enjoying the space.
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San Benito County: Article

Fair T-Shirt & Sweatshirt pre-orders

August 21, 2022
Dear 4-H families, We are hosting a fundraiser with the profits benefiting the 4-H program. We are selling San Benito Fair t-shirts and sweatshirts with the fair logo. We have received permission to use the fair logo. Order your t-shirt and/or sweatshirt today.
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Weed Technology journal
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Weed zapping

August 21, 2022
By Gale Perez
From the EurekAlert! website :: Cambridge University Press :: Aug. 1, 2022 Researchers from the University of Missouri recently conducted two field studies to explore the effectiveness of electricity in weed control.
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Capture Tom Willey SWCS
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Tom Willey presents CIG Project's reduced disturbance organic vegetable production project in You Tube video

August 21, 2022
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
August 21, 2022 Madera, CA long-time organic farmer and key farmer member of California's CIG reduced disturbance organic vegetable project, provided a recorded copy of the presentation that he gave at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society in Denver, CO on August 2nd.
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UC Marin Master Gardeners: Article

September 2022: Introducing the Honeyberry

August 21, 2022
A small bush grew unnoticed at the edge of the Edible Garden for several years until a new garden pathway was needed and the bush was in the way. Only then did a garden volunteer find a tag identifying the bush as a honeyberry.
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TeddyBear Sunflowers 2021 (elaine kearney)
Napa Master Gardener Column: Article

The Helianthus, a Most Joyful Sun Tracker

August 21, 2022
About 25 years ago, my children and I planted a particularly exuberant flower garden in the backyard. We had pink and purple, and white cosmos, brilliant blue morning glories and many colors of zinnias.
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Homemade PVC structure to shade cabbage growing late into the summer season by Sara Hoyer
HOrT COCO-UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa: Article

In the Vegetable Garden When is Full Sun Too Much?

August 21, 2022
By Help Desk Team
Problem While most of our garden plants need at least 6 hours of full sun to be productive, too much sun, especially when combined with too much heat, can be too much for plants to bear. Problems arise especially when temperatures are over 85 to 90 degrees F.
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A departmental seminar on Sept. 28 will explore "The Effects of Ethyl Oleate Pheromone on Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Overwintering Physiology." UC Davis master's student Nissa Coit will be giving her exit seminar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Department's Seminars Announced for Fall Quarter

August 20, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Emily Meineke, assistant professor of urban landscape entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and coordinator of the department's seminars for the 2022-23 academic year, has announced the list of speakers for the fall seminars, which begin Sept. 21.
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Case in point: there were like twenty flies around this fruit and we had to go another 15 feet or so to find another like it.
Strawberries and Caneberries: Article

Fruit Sanitation in Strawberry and SWD

August 19, 2022
By Mark P Bolda
I am currently underway with a field trial investigating the relationship between spotted wing drosophila and leak rot in strawberry. The hypothesis is that the flies, which wound the fruit with their egg laying are also accelerating the spread of this wound and bruise loving fungus.
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