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Vegetable Seed Starting

Gardeners can grow most annuals, biennials, and many non-woody perennials from seed. Growing your own vegetable transplants from seed has many advantages. When compared to commonly available transplants, seeds can provide more varieties that are disease resistant and grow well in your climate.
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Cool Season Vegetable Guide for SLO County

Created by Johannah Varland, UC Master Gardener Plant cool season veggies during the months in the shaded area, according to your location. Use the frost dates and average days to maturity for each vegetable to determine planting and harvest dates.
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Victory Garden Workshops

Our first Victory Garden workshop series was a success! #WeAreSLOCounty #slogardenersrule #WeAreANR Thank you to the participants and thank you to SLO City for the use of the Rotary community garden at Meadow Park.
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Gardening Articles

These brief gardening documents are written by UC Master Gardener Program volunteers for SLO County residents to provide an easy to read summary of local gardening problems and topics of interest.
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Centennial Park Demonstration Garden

UC Master Gardeners of SLO county have partnered with the City of Paso Robles to adopt the garden at Centennial Park in Paso Robles. We are thankful to Common Ground Worldwide for their work and dedication in managing this garden for the past 5 years.
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Tabanidae

If any of you gardeners decided to take a break from gardening and went to the mountains to go camping, then you have undoubtedly been bothered by deer flies.
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Mydid Flies

Youdid, wedid, medid, shedid, hedid, mydid? Mydid Flies, genus Mydas Good bugs or not so good? So, are these good bugs or bad bugs? What do you think they are, wasps or flies? Actually they are considered to be of little consequence, neither good nor bad.
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Advice to Grow By Workshops

Our in-person monthly Advice to Grow By educational programs are held every third Saturday from 10:00 AM to noon (except November & December) in the Garden of the Seven Sisters. Workshops are free and open to the public, and registration is suggested. See calendar at the right for a full schedule.
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Speakers Bureau

UC Master Gardeners are volunteers who have completed an in-depth training curriculum developed by the University of California Cooperative Extension on a variety of horticulture topics, pests and disease management.
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