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Hispanic Heritage Month began on Sept. 15 and continues through Oct. 15. October Hispanic Heritage Month events will be in Spanish and will take place via Facebook Live. Follow UC ANR en Espaol on Facebook. Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1 2 p.m.: Susana L. Matias Medrano: Healthy living Susana L.

Karrie Reid didn't plan to become a scientist, but she fell in love with plants. Reid joined UC Agriculture and Natural Resources as the UC Cooperative Extension environmental horticulture advisor for San Joaquin County in 2010, with funding from the county's Public Works Solid Waste Division.

Did you miss the Carbon Sequestration on Monterey County Rangelands: Ranching is part of the climate change solution! workshop? If so, not to worry. We recorded the workshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNb3bZXi69U&t=11029s. The workshop was held on September 22 in Salinas.

I had just completed 19 weeks Master Gardener training when Ted gave me my first plant identification challenge. Ted has a gorgeous garden of flowers and abundant vegetables that he has tended for decades in Trinidad. He had never seen such a shrub that volunteered in his horse pasture.

Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How to Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 09-26-2022" ET Report 09-26-2022 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

Register now for the UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County online "Victory Vegetable Gardening for TRUE Beginners" series. Offered October 15, 22, 29, and November 5 from 10am -12 pm. Two-hour classes are held once each week for four weeks.

What is summer without home-grown tomatoes and fresh basil (Ocimum basilicum)? But every year I feel like I spend hours of time watering my large-leafed sweet basil. The stems get floppy, or the leaves get sunburned and then wilt on the hottest days. So, this year I decided to try something new.

The invasive pest spotlight focuses on emerging or potential invasive pests in California. In this issue we are covering the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB). Brown marmorated stink bug facts BMSB can cause severe crop and garden losses and become a nuisance in and around homes and other buildings.

With ongoing drought and local water restrictions in place in many areas of California, you may start to see landscape plants suffering from stress caused by a lack of water, calledwater stress. Water-stressed plants can have symptoms that resemble diseases caused by plant pathogens.