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Pinus Attenuata By Linda Lewis Griffith UCCE Master Gardener Common Name: Knobcone Pine Planting Zone: Sunset 2-10, 14-21 Size: 20-80 ft. tall, 20-25 ft.

Irises Part 2: Lessons Learned By Patty Smith UCCE Master Gardener After documenting the pro trips for separating iris rhizomes, I trundled into the garden with my fancy new three-pronged digging fork and set in to divide. First lesson learned: my summer-dried clay soil laughed at the digging fork.

It's not often you see "passion on passion." That would be the "passion butterfly"--Gulf Fritillary, Agaulis vanillae--on the blossom of its host plant, the passionflower vine, Passiflora. You often see the males patrolling the vine and the females laying eggs on the leaves.

The UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County (MGSC) Garden Sense program via its sponsoring organization, Sonoma Water, was named the recipient of the Smart Water Application Technologies (SWAT) Outstanding Public Engagement Award on October 29, 2020.

As part of its mission of sustainability in agriculture, the University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP) is interested in crops that hold environmental and economic promise such as moringa, the drought-tolerant superfood grown by Central Valley farmers...

I don't know why I never thought about it before, but I just realized that birds like tomatoes! This is probably not a newsflash to most backyard gardeners, but I never knew until I watched a mockingbird happily devouring my Sungold cherry tomatoes today.

We hope you will join us virtually for the 16th annual Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit on March 25-26, 2021.

Anyone anxious this week? And it's not over, yet. My Pollyanna voice says that while the country is divided, no one is on the short end of a landslide. Some important firsts' took place across the country (NY, DE, NM), too, suggesting changing times. An interesting week, indeed.

Nitrogen Management in Small Grains Webinar Join UCCE's Grain Cropping Systems Specialist, Mark Lundy next week (11 a.m. on November 6th, 2020) for a presentation on nitrogen management in California Small Grains (hosted by the California Wheat Commission and Golden State Grains). Dr.

Valuable forage for livestock and wildlife is often lost on rangelands after wildfires.