Want to attract bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and other beneficial animals and insects to your garden? Learn the basics of design, from plant selection and proper grouping to encourage them to call your garden their home. This event is free.
Body mechanics can improve longer term gardening. How posture, bending, pushing, lifting effect long term gardening. Joan Sarlatte is a retired nurse practitioner who worked with people with work injuries in her practice . Come learn better body mechanics to protect your musculoskeletal system. This…
Join us for the free East Bay Public Gardens Open House to discover the beauty and benefits of water-wise gardens. Visit a nearby garden for expert tips, garden tours, and resources.In collaboration with EBMUD, CCWD, and UC Master Gardeners of Contra Costa County and Alameda. Here's the direct…
SC REC CIMIS STATIONFor current data from the California Irrigation Management. Information System (CIMIS) weather stations. The station located at the University of California (UCCE & SC REC) is station 75. See the description below. Click here to access the CIMIS WebsiteIrvine #75Southern…
by Jim DeFrisco, UC Master Gardener, for the 2014 Sustainability FairPlanning Your VineyardTable grapes (mostly Vitis labrusca) or wine grapes (mostly Vitis vinifera).Site selection.Lots of sun and good drainage are the most important considerations.Varietal selection.Different varietals require more or less…
Dogs in our gardens can present many challenges. Dogs usually want to please their humans, but the very nature of the beast does not always coincide with our gardening desires and expectations. Dogs can wear paths through yards in unexpected and unplanned places. They might dig unsightly holes, which can…
Alameda County Master Gardener Guy Duran will talk about growing sweet onions in your garden. There is a fee to park in the Gardens if you enter by car. Park near Gate 4. Enter at that gate, turn left and follow signs to the Trials Garden nearby.This event is outdoors and is subject to weather and the UC…
Learn how to grow herbs in containers and a small plot in your garden. This event is free.This event is outdoors and is subject to weather and the UC Master Gardener's discretion. Please dress appropriately!
A team of nine researchers led by UC Davis entomologist Mia Lippey published an important paper today on climate warming and the effect on agricultural pests.The work, “Field Data Challenge Predictions of Universal Crop Pest Proliferation under Warming,” appearing in the Proceedings of the National…
