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Help for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County IMPORTANT NOTICE: We are moving to Concord. Our Pleasant Hill location is now closed. We expect to reopen in Concord on Monday, 8/6. Our new address and phone number are:.

Summer is all about being outdoors and enjoying camping, swimming, playing, and other activities with family and friends. But it's a real drag when pests such as ants, yellowjackets, or mosquitoes ruin the fun.

Reality has set in that I need to spend more days at a desk in front of a screen or on the phone. Ughhh. As a result, I spent the weekend trying to catch up; I've long since decided there's no point in thinking I can get ahead.

The Butte Cluster's Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences Advisor and the UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program partnered with the Fit Quest Family Camp and the Fit Quest Specialists to provide families with a fun filled day of nutrition and physical activity.

Sometimes they barely notice you. Such was the case of a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, spotted on our Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a bee worth? Priceless.

Hello all, Please find the attached document to provide the previous weeks estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa, and pasture in Stanislaus County.

China Agricultural University (CAU) took home top honors in the 2018 ASABE Robotics Student Design Competition, held July 31 in Detroit. CAU teams won in both the advanced and beginner divisions.

Experimental plots in mid January, 2018. Photo by Surendra Dara In the recent years, interest in biological products nutrient, biostimulant, soil amendment or pesticide products of plant and microbial origin is increasing for use in agriculture.

Since last week, I have been receiving samples with red aphids to get the identification. It turned out that this time, most of these reddish' aphids were identified as the lettuce aphid, Nasonovia ribis-nigri (Fig. 1).

I recently had to replace a small section of sidewalk next to my garage. Not sure what caused it, but it had become uneven, leaving a dangerous lip I could easily have tripped over.