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Is your yard filled with compacted clay soil and just the thought of attempting to grow vegetables and flowers seems daunting? Or perhaps you’re searching for a raised bed to avoid a lot of bending and stooping. Have you considered trough gardening? Galvanized livestock water troughs, also known as…

 UC Davis doctoral candidate Alexia “Lexie” Martin of the laboratory of Rachel Vannette, associate professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be displaying bee life stages at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on Sunday, May 18.The event, free and…

Snap vs ClipWe were out harvesting GEM avocados the other day and what a set of gymnastics it can require to get at the fruit stem or peduncle to make a nice cut.  The peduncle on the GEM can be quite long – up to 12 inches - and it gets wrapped around its sister fruit stems and also around branches and…

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