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Winter Daphne By Leonard Cicerello UCCE Master Gardener Daphne odora Planting area: Sunset zones 4-10, 12, 14-17 Size: 4' high and 6' wide. Bloom season: Spring. Exposure: Morning sun and afternoon shade. Pruning needs: Minimal pruning to correct shape.

Kiwi By Andrea Peck UCCE Master Gardener Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) Planting Area: Full Sun, USDA Zones 7-9 Size: Grows 15'-30' tall and 6;-10' wide Bloom Season: Spring Fruit Season: Fall Exposure: Sensitive to frost/freeze. Pruning Needs: Twice yearly Water Needs: Medium.

This one doesn't show too much in strawberry here on the Central Coast, so I was glad when the sample was brought in to me. Complaint was fairly significant numbers of a reddish mite mixed together with a mess of twospotted mite. Are these going to cause a problem was the question.

In the past year, UC has announced several agreements with major publishers of scholarly journals, including Elsevier and Springer Nature.

Register now for the Urban & Community IPM webinars! All webinar information and registration links are available on our webinar website. Webinars are the third Thursday of every month from 1:00-2:00pm Pacific time. Webinars are free and open to the public but you must register in advance.

It's also for apple. And an apple tree acts more like an avocado tree than an alfalfa plant. Perennial woody plants have certain characteristics that are distinct from herbaceous plants. They are all plants, but how you prune, fertilize and irrigate are different.

The University of California Office of the President seeks employee comments on the two policy changes proposed below. PPSM-2.210 Absence from Work Pay for Family Care & Bonding Employee Consultation Period The University of California is proposing revisions to PPSM-2.

There's still time to register for the online Honey Adulteration Symposium, hosted by the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center and featuring keynote speaker Michael T. Roberts of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law. The 2.

We are having some computer issues, so here is the Santa Cruz 4-H program newsletter. Please see attached for updates.

It is federal reporting time. Katherine and her team are hard at work assembling the reports based on stories a group of academics gleaned from Project Board. I had a chance to take a quick peak.