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Meet the "meat bees." Yellowjackets, commonly known as "meat bees," in comparison to the "vegetarian" honey bees, will be among the wasps featured at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept.

Did you know that you can get free gardening advice from our University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardeners? Our Help desk is a free public service available to the home gardener in the Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

It is important that we all do our part to eradicate Pampas Grass on our property and in the environment. Drive anywhere along the coast this time of year and you will see huge stands of large 6'-10' tall grasses with dramatic pink plumes blowing in the wind like flags.

Most of the living things that gardeners see when they peer into their compost piles need to be there for compost to happen. Earthworms, white worms, sow bugs, pill bugs, millipedes, snails, slugs, and mites all help break down the organic matter in the compost pile.

Test your fire danger awareness: 1. I'm safe from wildfire because I live close to the ocean and we have the marine layer to protect us.

Good Morning 4-Her's We have a vegetable judging at fair next week on September 30th. We also have a knowledge bowl on Wednesday of fair. I hope to see all of you at these events. See the flier for details on vegetable judging.

Birds do it, bees do it, Even seaweeds in the seas do itwith apologies to Cole Porter The origin of animal pollination has long been assumed to be a terrestrial phenomenon, starting with the evolution of flowering plants (angiosperms) during the late Cretaceous (99.6 to 65.5 million years ago) [1].

Avocados are a staple. Every person who opened an avocado has probably put the pit (seed) into water and hoped for a tree to harvest their own. Reality check: Avocado growing doesn't work that way. Yes, you might get a tree, and yes, after 10+ years it may produce fruit under the right conditions.

About: Powdery mildew is a group of fungal diseases that afflict a wide variety of plants. There are many species of fungi (e.g., Erysiphe spp., Sphaerotheca spp. Golovinomyces cichoracearum) that infect plants and cause the suite of symptoms we commonly call powdery mildew.

Gattone, Toni. THE LIFELONG GARDENER, GARDEN WITH EASE & JOY AT ANY AGE Timber Press, 2019 Portland, Oregon 214 pages. Who can resist a book whose preface begins, The year I became a Master Gardener, I couldn't wait to apply the information I'd learned so I could transform my garden.