Ongoing research

In order to accommodate Delta harvest timing, I have scheduled a morning field meeting to view the 2013 NC-140 Orchard Systems Trial at Shadowbrook Farms in Hopland (Mendocino County) on JUNE 28, 10:00-NOON.

It's Sept. 4, 2019. We notice a monarch butterfly laying eggs on milkweed in an enclosed Vacaville retail nursery. We purchase the plant and add it to our pollinator garden. Did the eggs ever hatch? Did we ever get caterpillars, chrysalids and adults? No. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

Two Assistant Project Scientist positions are available at the Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Do you wonder what seasonal gardening tasks should be done month-by-month? Or what seasonal pests to be looking out for? The Humboldt/Del Norte Master Gardener Help Desk Team is providing you with some tasks that will help you maintain and grow beautiful edibles and landscape plants.

Walking a passionfruit vineyard in Carpinteria recently, we saw wilted leaves and total plant collapse.

If you're trying to find a praying mantis in the wild, go where the food source is. Sounds pretty easy, right? But oh, they're camouflaged. They lie in wait, as ambush predators, and strike. Now you see the predator, now you don't.

Our updated for 2022 Organic Strawberry Cost of Production Study is now available, finished it a couple of weeks ago. Nice work once again with Jeremy Murdock and the team at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis.

See attached for upcoming events...

Consider what spring-flowering bulbs to buy.

Vice President Glenda Humiston visited San Diego County on Aug. 3.