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Summer Pruning Fruit Trees By Leonard Cicerello UCCE Master Gardener I just purchased my first fruit tree and I read about pruning fruit trees in summer. Is this advisable? Samantha T. Paso Robles Take time to inspect your fruit trees thoroughly during the summer and identify areas for improvement.

Soil compaction is often a problem in field crop production and occurs when soil particles are pressed together, reducing available pore space for air and water. About half the soil volume is composed of particles, the other half is soil pores.

June IPM Breakfast Meeting Glenn County Friday, June 15th, 2018, 7:30am 9:00am Join University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Area IPM and Farm Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues.

Authors: Tunyalee Martin and Cheryl Wilen Italian White Snail Slowly Becoming an Invasive Pest (Again) Sometimes an invasive pest takes a while to become invasive.

Authors: Tunyalee Martin and Cheryl Wilen Italian White Snail Slowly Becoming an Invasive Pest (Again) Sometimes an invasive pest takes a while to become invasive.

Last year, we saw a number of disorders in sunflower that were mainly related to a heat stress by parental line interaction. Despite extensive testing by the USDA and UC ANR for pathogens in many affected sunflower plants, no causal agents were found.

As a commodity-based CE Advisor with a background in entomology, weed science is not a familiar subject to me, especially weed identification.

Figure 1: Citrus shoot dieback (top) and gummosis (bottom) caused by Colletrotrichum. A new disease of citrus has been found in the main growing regions of the Central Valley of California.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: I am aware that asparagus is a 2/3/4th year veggie. I am a patient person. However, I am not so talented, or patient enough to start from scratch.

Reading the words bed bug in a sentence is enough to make most people's skin crawl! Bed bugs aren't a pleasant topic to discuss, but if you plan on staying at a hotel, hostel, or motel this summer, learning about bed bugs is a must! June 4-10 was Bed Bug Awareness Week, but it was also California In...