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In this issue: The Dance of Defensible Space All-Star: Crape Myrtle 2023 Spring Garden Faire Spring Plant Sale Biotic vs.Abiotic Plant Problems, BotLat: Farm Animals, Nevada County Demo Garden News, Unusual Edibles: Jujube, Ground Squirrels, 2023 Mother’s Day Garden Tour, Are Your Mature Trees Healthy and…

Regular Haven visitors notice that we frequently change our planting. It's one of the joys of gardening -- there are always new plants to try and experiment with. At the Haven, research on new plants and methods for bee gardens is essential to our educational mission.

For four decades, when a new plant disease infects fields of lettuce or a new regulation is issued for agriculture, vegetable farmers across the state have turned to Richard Smith, the University of California Cooperative Extension vegetable crops advisor, for answers.

One, one hundred, one thousand This little mnemonic, or memory aid, in the title is helpful in remembering the critical levels of toxic constituents in irrigation water.

UC ANR is offering a quick turn-around mini-grants program for this current year (ending June 30, 2023) to support collaborative projects that add value to the impact of statewide programs and institutes or Research and Extension Centers (REC). The deadline has been extended to March 6.

We have a Bearss Lime tree Citrus latifolia (Yu.Tanaka) that produces a large quantity of delicious limes. We use these limes when they are green, like the ones we typically purchase at the local grocer.

If you're a fan of Groundhog Day, you know that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow (Feb 2) and we've got six more weeks of winter. Whether you believe this tale or not, we're definitely in winter. Thank you everyone who shared pictures from throughout California over the last few days.

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I had a beautiful cherry tree many years ago that produced a lot of fruit. If I wanted to pick cherries before the birds ate them all I had to use a ladder. This really wasn't safe because I was leaning over the ladder trying to reach the cherries without getting off said ladder.