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In the meantime, stay cool and consider your shade garden. And here's just one small tip to think about. When you water your plants, be certain to occasionally flush out those plants such as Bromeliads that tend to pool water in their cups.

In this issue: Managing Livestock Nutrition on Dry Forage. Fire season is upon us. Planning for planned power outages. Coccidiosis in Sheep and Goats. Sierra Harvest Land Match Program. Observations of Blue Oaks Needed. USDA will require RFID Brucellosis Tags.

Seven years ago, I wrote a blog on wild onion, Allium triquetrum.[1] Since that time, I've learned that I actually have one type of wild onion in my yard and another plant that initially looks like wild onion or wild garlic, Nothoscordum gracile, but actually is not.

Sacramento Valley Almond News - July, 2019 Contents: Cover Crop Seed Selection Summer-Fall Almond Orchard Management Considerations 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings...

Pepino Dulce Common Name: Pepino Dulce or Pepino Melon Solanum muricatum Planting Zone: Sunset 15 and 16, 23 and 24 Size: 2-3 feet tall, spreading to about 4 feet wide.

In a recent article in Fresh Plaza, the flood of imported jackfruit is reported. As recently as 2 years ago, I saw jackfruit advertized on Amazon for nearly $10 a pound. These babies regularly weigh in at 10-20 pounds. In their homeland, they regularly clock in at 80 pounds and more.

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Shahid Masood Siddique has never met a plant parasitic nematode he didn't like--to study, that is. Plant-parasitic nematodes are microscopic worms that extract water and nutrients from such host plants as wheat, soybeans, sugar beets and bananas.

Cover Crop Seed Selection Summer-Fall Almond Orchard Management Considerations 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings...

If a dragonfly lands on your window screen and rests there for several hours, is that good luck? A female red rock skimmer, Paltothemis lineatipes, did just that. She was several feet from our fish pond and several yards from our pollinator garden. And inches from where we stood.