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California natives have adapted to thrive in our California climate.

Fall and winter are the time to plant most California Natives.

Prepare your perennial vegetables for the coming winter.

View as a webpage Think fungi are little more than moldy growths? Guess again. Scientists found one that creates fake flowers to attract insect pollinators.

Jos Luiz Carvalho de Souza Dias joined UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) on Nov. 2, 2020, as an area agronomy and weed management advisor in Merced, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties.

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A summer of smoke and ash in many parts of California has raised questions about the safety of produce growing on farms and in the garden, eggs laid by chickens who peck around in ash-laden areas, and remediation needed to safely and effectively grow food in the future.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's weekly virtual seminars resume Wednesday, Dec. 2 with a program on nematodes, or "roundworms.

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As I sit here after removing ONLY half of the Plumbago bush in the front yard, I'm thinking of an article in ARCHOLOGY Magazine I just read in the March/April 2018 edition by various authors who are studying how gardening was way back when in such places as the Bay of Naples and Pompeii in Italy, Se...