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Suggestion: Would it be possible to get wall-mounted soap dispensers in the building showers? Bringing your own soap isnt ideal.

Over the last several years, my wife and I have been setting up a raised bed garden on the west side of our home. There are about 10 Eucalyptus trees on the west edge of the garden that provides some shade from the very hot late afternoon sun. These trees are about 35 years old and well established.

KUCI Host and UC Master Gardener Dece Morgan visits the Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary.

I recently attended a Santa Ana River Orange County Weed Management Area (SAROCWMA) meeting and there was an opportunity for participants to update the group about new invasive plants as well as give an update on management of these and others.

Just call it "my old flame." Well, it's not mine, but it is a flame of sorts, a flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) and it's firecracker red. We see this species frequenting our pollinator garden in Vacaville, which includes a fish pond, flower beds, and bamboo stakes for their perches.

Glyphosate was commercialized in 1974. Since then, it has become one of the most widely used (and studied) herbicides. According to Duke (2018b), almost 20,000 scientific publications and patents have included glyphosate as a focus; only 2,4-D surpasses it with respect to citations.

Summer 2018 has seen a surge of this disease around Yolo County. Conditions have been more optimal. Although it is a vascular pathogen like those causing Fusarium and Verticillium wilt, this one differs in that it is bacterial and has rapid and easy secondary spread during the season.

It seems like California has been under a heat advisory all summer. Many gardeners wonder how their plants; trees or shrubs can survive. With a little extra planning, your plants can survive the hot summer weather. Don't fertilize plants or trees during hot weather.

The news that Americans are getting about California's devasting fires is not being hyped up by the media, said UC Cooperative Extension area fire advisor Lenya Quinn-Davidson on the nationally broadcast NPR program On Point.

Monitoring efforts during the week of May 14th showed the first emergence of VCLH nymphs for the season (see Table 1/Figure 1 for # VCLH nymphs per leaf).