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Have you looked at the ingredients in a bag of soil mix lately? Some provide peat. Some contain coir. Does it really make a difference in your container or your garden? Peat is very slowly decomposing vegetation found in watery, anaerobic areas like bogs.

Prey tell, where are all the praying mantids? Last fall, a Stagmomantis limbata deposited her egg case, or ootheca, on a clothespin on our outdoor clothesline. On April 9, the clothespin sprang to life. Hundreds of nymphs emerged, scrambled away, and vanished.

Webinar: Practical Canker Management in Almond and Prune Thursday Sep 29, 2022 9:00 AM Register in advance: https://ucanr.zoom.

Dear Colleagues, The Western Extension Risk Management Education Center is announcing three competitive funding opportunities for educational projects designed to help agricultural producers improve their economic viability through targeted risk management strategies.

Family meals; Seasonal produce; Apple-Butternut Squash recipe...

The Informatics and GIS (IGIS) Statewide Program has announced their fall 2022 workshop schedule. All workshops will be on Zoom and are free for the UC ANR community. Workshops include Introduction to ArcGIS Online Fri 9/30 1-4 p.m. Intro to R 3-part series Part 1 Tues 10/11, 3:30-5 p.m.

So what happens to an avocado tree when it runs out of water? The stomata close and stops transpiring. When water no longer evaporates from the leaf surface, it heats up. If it gets hot enough, and it will, the leaf sunburns and dies.

Webinar: Practical Canker Management in Almond and Prune Thursday September 29, 2022 at 9:00 AM Register in advance at: https://ucanr.zoom.

Webinar: Practical Canker Management in Almond and Prune Thursday September 29, 2022 at 9:00 AM Register in advance at: https://ucanr.zoom.

Do you wonder what seasonal gardening tasks should be done month-by-month? Or what seasonal pests to be looking out for? The Humboldt/Del Norte Master Gardener Help Desk Team is providing you with some tasks that will help you maintain and grow beautiful edibles and landscape plants.