Ongoing research

This month we will look at when and how to water your roses. Especially now that the weather is starting to heat up and the rains are probably done until the fall. We live in a Mediterranean climate. Winter rain and summer dry.

Pampasgrass (Cortaderia selloana) is a common ornamental landscape plant that readily naturalizes throughout California's coastal areas and some interior regions.

June days are the longest of the year - take advantage of the extra hours in your garden. Tasks Check drip irrigation lines and emitters for leaks or clogs and adjust to provide adequate moisture. Thin fruit on stone and pome fruit trees. Spider mites can be discouraged by rinsing dust from foliage.

Movento (spirotetramet) has been renewed for use on citrus Asian citrus psyllid in California. It's a foliar spray that is systemic especially moving to new tissue where ACP feeds. It also controls some other pests, such as thrips and leafminer.

Why are wine bottles tall and narrow? That distinctive shape contributes to the happy marriage between cork and a bottle made tall enough to lie on its side so the wine can breathe through the cork as it matures.

Increasing participation in school meal programs can improve dietary quality and reduce nutrition insecurity. School food service directors have indicated an urgent need for marketing materials encouraging school meal participation.

UC Master Gardeners across the state are on a scouting mission for the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), combing their communities and the local countryside to find the undesirable but common tree-of-heaven.

Broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) are obligate plant parasites with a broad range of agricultural crop hosts. In non-parasitic plant species, seeds generally initiate germination when exposed to favorable conditions of temperature, humidity, oxygen, and, occasionally, light.

UPDATES ON FSMA FINAL RULE ON PRE-HARVEST AGRICULTURAL WATER VIRUSES IN SUGAR BEETS 2024 CALIF. DATE PALM WORKSHOP AGRONOMIC CROPS & IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP GOT LIVESTOCK PEST I.V.

Cerca de 200 residentes han sido capacitados en los ltimos siete aos como parte del programa Administradores del Medio Ambiente de UC Durante uno de sus das ms oscuros, Tammah Watts estaba parada frente al sink de su cocina para llenar una jarra con agua.