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Prune Apricot and Cherry Trees in August If you have apricot, cherry, or related hybrid tree varieties such as aprium and pluot in your yard, plan to prune them before the end of August.

by Kathrine Parsons What is common among fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, living landscapes and grazing lands? They all grow in soil and require water. More importantly, they support all human and animal life either directly or indirectly.

A cartoon character that looks suspiciously like a Department of Plant Sciences professor leads an animated, online tutorial that recently won a 2022 Gold Award from the Association for Communication Excellence.

I love Bread & Butter Pickles! One of the things I love best about them are the onions. We have just harvested our onions but don't have our cucumbers yet. I decided to make a version with just onions.

One of my neighbors, David Graves, is a partner in the Carneros winery Saintsbury. It's a small but thriving enterprise and very attractive because of its garden, making it a pleasant place to sit and enjoy the flowers and the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds attracted to them.

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.

In This Edition 2- Committee & Council Meetings 2- New Council Officers 2- Incentives & Recognition 2- Enrollment Note 3- National 4-H Week 3- Leadership Training Day 3- Fresno Fair Reminders 3- Need a 4-H Uniform?

Well, that's something you don't see every day: a leafcutter bee sunning itself on a milkweed leaf. The narrowleafed milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis, beckons monarch butterflies (the host plant), aphids, praying mantids and assorted other insects, but once in a while, you'll see a leafcutter bee.

Updates on 2022 MG Graduation and changes to elected officers and project coordinators for West County Advisory Board (WCAB) and Desert Advisory Board (DAB) along with both 2022-2023 Rosters.

Dear Colleagues: As part of the university's commitment to transparency and public accountability, including the way it compensates faculty and staff, UC is conducting its annual disclosure of systemwide employee compensation for calendar year 2021.