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A caterpillar featured on the Bug Squad blog's pictorial series that won an international award. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Communicators Win International Awards

June 30, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congrats to the University of California recipients of awards from the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE), an international association of communicators, educators and information technologists who focus on communicating research-based information.
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Numerous slender, blackish gray insects congregating on a seed pod.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Invasion of the False Chinch Bug

June 30, 2023
By Lauren Fordyce
The cool, wet spring that California has experienced this year comes with many benefits, but also some drawbacks. For the false chinch bug, a small insect commonly found in grassy or weedy areas, this year's weather may result in a population boom.
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avocado irrigation
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Figuring Fertigation

June 30, 2023
By Ben A Faber
Read All About It Two Pubs that Discuss the INs and OUts of Fertigation Fertigation with Microirrigation Publication Number: 21620 Copyright Date: 2006 Length: 49 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-879906-79-2 Author: BLAINE HANSON $25.
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Capture Woolf cutter February 2, 2022
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Strip-till cover crop tomato crop trialed in Huron, CA, February 2, 2022

June 30, 2023
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Strip-till cover crop tomato crop trialed in Huron, CA, February 2, 2022 A unique - dare we say - "never before attempted in the region," effort to precede strip-tilled tomatoes with a mowed vigorous winter cover crop was conducted in one of the fieldsofWoolf Enterprises, a major tomato and other ro...
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Berm with flat flagstone wall. Cindy Weiner
The Real Dirt: Article

Landscaping with Berms

June 30, 2023
Landscaping berms are mounded hills of soil that can serve multiple functional and aesthetic purposes in the garden. A berm can be placed to block or change the flow of water across the property.
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Aeonium 1 (photos by Jeanine McAnaney)
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Aeonium Flowers: A Different Perspective

June 30, 2023
This is the season for many plants such as aeoniums to send out flowers. This can make gardeners be quite sad. Why, you may ask? According toWikipedia, Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die.
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