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There are so many reasons to garden! Research indicates that school, home and community garden efforts provide benefits across the board, including evidence that children who garden consume more fruits and vegetables; improved academic performance; reduced food costs for families; a healthier enviro...
Ben Faber covers issues of soil management by way of fertilizer, irrigation, and erosion control. In tree crops he works primarily in avocado, cherimoya, litchi, longan, and citrus.
Soil scientists made this survey to learn what kinds of soils are in the Ventura Area, where they are located, and how they can he used. The soil scientists went into the county knowing they likely would find many soils they had already seen and perhaps some they had not.
The general soil map in this publication shows, in color, the soil associations in the Ventura Area. A soil association is a landscape that has a distinctive proportional pattern of soils.
This section describes the major factors of soil formation, tells how these factors have affected the soils of theVentura Area, and explains some of the principal processes in horizon development .
This section provides information about the general physiography of the Ventura Area, about the climate, and about the water supply and the means of supplying and distributing water in the Area. The Area has a varied physiography made up of a coastal plain, low mountains, and intermountain valleys.
"Growing Avocados in Ventura County" is a reference handbook available here to download for your use. It's broken by chapters and sections for easier navigation to a particular topic.
Avocados are still a relatively new crop in California. The commercial growing of avocados was not seriously considered until about 1910. As is usually the case when a fruit industry is newly established in a region, there was an initial period of relative freedom from serious pests.
