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UC Master Gardeners- Diggin' it in SLO: Article

Acacias

November 15, 2018
Acacias By Andrea Peck UCCE Master Gardener Common Name: Purple Fernleaf Acacia Latin Name: Acacia bayleyana purpurea Planting zone: USDA 9-11 Size of Plant: This plant grows 20-30 feet tall and wide.
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Tarantula
UC Master Gardeners- Diggin' it in SLO: Article

Tarantulas!!

November 15, 2018
California Tarantulas (Aphonopelma sp.) By Norman Smith This is the time of year when you might see tarantulas wandering around the woodlands and crossing roads, often in broad daylight - unusual for a spider. Well, what you are seeing are male tarantulas, looking for a female.
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Notes in the Margins: Agronomy and Weed Science Musings: Article

Upcoming Extension Meetings: December 2018

November 15, 2018
Water Measuring and Reporting Shortcourse Senate Bill 88 requires that all water right holders who have previously diverted or intend to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year (riparian and pre-1914 claims), or who are authorized to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year under a permit, license, or...
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Small Grains Injury
Notes in the Margins: Agronomy and Weed Science Musings: Article

Cold injury, nutrient deficiencies or herbicide carryover in small grains?

November 15, 2018
It's that time of year again. Time to get small grains seeded, especially considering that there is the potential for a weather system to move through our area next week (Wednesday, November 21, 2018). Water in our weather? Current forecasts suggest that rain could move through the area next week.
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Gamemaster Deane Jorgensen (far left), research scientist at Sygenta, and ESA president Michael Parrella (far right), dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Idaho, flank the national Linnaean Games Team champions. In the center (from left) are Emily Bick, Brendon Boudinot, captain Ralph Washington Jr., Zachary Griebenow and Jill Oberski. Parrella is a former professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. (Joe Rominiecki Photo)

Congrats! UC Linnaean Games Team Wins the National Championship

November 14, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
They did it! Again! The incredible University of California Linnaean Games Team, comprised of graduate students from UC Davis and UC Berkeley, won the national championship at the popular and highly competitive Linnaean Games hosted this week at the Entomological Society of America's meeting in Vanc...
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hand lens hold
Nursery and Flower Grower: Article

Taking a closer look: the best field hand lens and how to use it

November 14, 2018
By Steven A Tjosvold
As you walk quickly down the nursery walkway on the way to the sales team meeting, you glance over at the 1- gallon stock that's almost ready to sell. Then you stop; something is wrong with the Chamaecyparis lawsoniana. Yikes, the older portions of the branches are browning on many plants.
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