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During the drought, your trees should come first! Because many well-maintained trees don't reach their prime until their 4th or 5th decade, it's important to keep them watered during the drought and water restrictions.

It will help control the weeds too. Watch your bearded irises bloom this month. Keep on top of pest and diseases. Put in your squash and melons. What is there already is really taking off now. Tune in for what to do In the Garden this month.

Congratulations to UC Davis doctoral alumnus Anurag Agrawal of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). It's one of the highest honors a scientist can receive.

To see more and register for this free seminar series, go to: Flyer PDF: //ucanr.edu/sites/Climate_Resilient_Agriculture/files/348824.pdf Agenda PDF: //ucanr.edu/sites/Climate_Resilient_Agriculture/files/348822.

UC Davis doctoral alumnus Anurag Agrawal, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

I love perennial vegetables. I have a few of them that I planted once and harvest from year after year - artichokes, asparagus, tree Kale Pentland Brig,' tree collards. I also have Swiss chard, pepper plants, and one eggplant that over-wintered or did not die in the winter.

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Reposted from the UC Irvine News A brush fire in the summer of 2017 consumed large swaths of dried out vegetation on the hillsides of Ventura County, a place that emerged as a hot spot for wildfires over the past two decades, according to a new study by UCI researchers in Nature Scientific Reports.

May is full of events regarding livestock and natural resources management.

Everyone loves home grown tomatoes and other vegetables like peppers, corn, and squash. But pests like them too.