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A new study on the costs and returns of establishing and producing lemons in Ventura County has been released by UC Cooperative Extension in Southern California and UC Agricultural Issues Center, both part of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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Donating Produce 2020 By Aliza Golan UCCE Master Gardener During the month of September 2020, the local community has been enjoying our donations from the last gasps of summer produce from the Kitchen Garden such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, green beans, and squash.

Pinus Attenuata By Linda Lewis Griffith UCCE Master Gardener Common Name: Knobcone Pine Planting Zone: Sunset 2-10, 14-21 Size: 20-80 ft. tall, 20-25 ft.

Irises Part 2: Lessons Learned By Patty Smith UCCE Master Gardener After documenting the pro trips for separating iris rhizomes, I trundled into the garden with my fancy new three-pronged digging fork and set in to divide. First lesson learned: my summer-dried clay soil laughed at the digging fork.

It's not often you see "passion on passion." That would be the "passion butterfly"--Gulf Fritillary, Agaulis vanillae--on the blossom of its host plant, the passionflower vine, Passiflora. You often see the males patrolling the vine and the females laying eggs on the leaves.

The UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County (MGSC) Garden Sense program via its sponsoring organization, Sonoma Water, was named the recipient of the Smart Water Application Technologies (SWAT) Outstanding Public Engagement Award on October 29, 2020.

As part of its mission of sustainability in agriculture, the University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP) is interested in crops that hold environmental and economic promise such as moringa, the drought-tolerant superfood grown by Central Valley farmers...

I don't know why I never thought about it before, but I just realized that birds like tomatoes! This is probably not a newsflash to most backyard gardeners, but I never knew until I watched a mockingbird happily devouring my Sungold cherry tomatoes today.

We hope you will join us virtually for the 16th annual Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit on March 25-26, 2021.