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Master Gardener Teena Spindler will meet with Jodie Cook and discuss the many benefits of a natural garden. Jodie is a Landscape Designer who works closely with In the Garden podcast alum Tree of Life (Native Plant Nursery podcast found on the mgorange.ucanr.edu website).

Such a silly name for a bad, bad weed. This weed seemed to appear overnight in 2010. It is invasive! Catchweed bedstraw is a summer annual broadleaf plant that is starting to show in your gardens now! Its bristles attach to people's clothing and the hair of animals, aiding in its dispersal.

On a conference trip to New Zealand in 2018, I was able to finally meet the final member of the invasive Elodea family, or Hydrocharitaceae. In the United States, we already have the invasive hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata from Asia) and Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa).

Colleagues, The 2018 Call for Cooperative Extension (CE) positions was released on Feb. 7 with the aim to identify positions that address programmatic gaps and emerging needs.

Last week saw the ESRI Developers Summit come and go in Palm Springs, CA. The Dev Summit is billed as being designed to show you how to build cutting-edge apps using advanced mapping technology from Esri.

March 10, 2018 Our CASI (Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation) Center was recognized as the Organization Innovator for 2017 by the National No-till Farmer Association at their recent annual meeting in Louisville, KY. Over 990 no-till farmers were in attendance.

During my rotation at University of California CalFresh Nutrition Education Program, I had a great time and learned about fun and engaging ways to provide nutrition education to children and adults.

With the surging interest in pollinator gardens and habitats, it is great to see so many home gardeners, parks and public spaces embrace the concept. When I first started looking into pollinator gardens, I thought any plant that attracts pollinators would do in all cases.

So, I got the question of what a carton of Meyer' lemons weighs Because different types of fruit are different sized, but usually the container in which it is sold stays the same, the product is going to have a different weight for the same volume.

Advice for the Home Gardener From the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: I need some help in ridding my raised vegetable beds of white grubs. This is a school garden and I haven't had this problem before.