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Now that rain has returned to Solano County and the nights are chilly, it's time to get prepared to protect your plants from upcoming freezes. Just a reminder there are a few simple steps you can take now to protect frost-sensitive plants from damage or death due to freezing temperatures.

Guacamole from Mexico Fuels Surge of Avocado Imports This new article from the Giannini Foundation looks at factors associated with recent rapid growth in demand for processed avocados, including adaptation and adoption of High-Pressure Processing (HPP) technology.

Peach leaf curl is a disease that affects peach and nectarine trees. Although you may not see symptoms right now in the dormant season in California, it's time to think about treatment, especially if your tree had the disease last year.

by Melody Kendall Labyrinths have been around for centuries. They are not designed like a maze to confuse and confine, but are created to be open and straightforward. Labyrinths are meandering and often unicursal: (a new word for me) being composed entirely of a single continuous path or line.

In 2017, I started getting reports of a watergrass biotype/species (Echinochloa spp.) that was difficult to control using our suite of herbicides registered in rice.

Scott Stoddard, University of California Cooperative Extension (Merced County) Farm Advisor, takes a look at weeds in a corn field, cotton field and a ditch in the Dos Palos area. He discusses cultural management, biological management and possible benefits of weeds. https://youtu.

By Cindy Watter, UC Master Gardener of Napa County After the sedate revelry of our pandemic purgatory (and a happy new year to us all), it is time to get back to work in the garden.

Learning more about insects ought to be one of your New Year's resolutions. Here's a good place to start: read the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology's Insect Information Sheets.

I love a well prepared turkey. The crisp skin, the juicy dark meat and the white meat leftover for sandwiches. Its too bad we only have turkey ba few times a year. But one thing we do have, and we have it often is chicken.

Researchers from Sacramento State and the University of California, Riverside are requesting input from citrus industry members to help examine the economics of Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) and huanglongbing (HLB) management in California citrus groves.