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Sacramento Valley Field Crops: Article

Soil Health Connection

September 3, 2020
By Sarah E Light
UC Cooperative Extension and Colusa RCD Launch Soil Health Connection University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) and Colusa County Resource Conservation District announce the launch of the Soil Health Connection, an informative outreach YouTube channel.
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A cuckoo bee, Xeromelecta californica, rests on a leaf in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Ever Seen a Cuckoo Bee?

September 3, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Ever seen a cuckoo bee? They're also called parasitic bees or "kleptoparasites" or "cleptoparasitises." They cannot carry pollen (no apparatus) and do not construct their nests. They lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts and then eat the food meant for the hosts.
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The Stanislaus Sprout: Article

Fall Vegetable Garden YouTube Available Now!

September 3, 2020
By Anne E Schellman
Planning to get your fall garden started? If you missed our live presentation of the Fall Vegetable Gardening class, you can now watch it on our YouTube Channel! Fall Vegetable Gardening was recorded on August 25, 2020.
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Figure 3. Bean plant with poor pod set. The arrows indicate where flowers did not set pods. The pictured, opened pod shows no lygus stings, suggesting that heat (and not lygus) caused poor pod set at this field.

Lima Bean Heat Stress

September 3, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles, Rachael Long
Last week, I visited a baby lima field in the southwest part of San Joaquin County that had overall poor pod set. Pods were filling lower in the canopy, but flowers had not set higher on the plants.
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Figure 3. Bean plant with poor pod set. The arrows indicate where flowers did not set pods. The pictured, opened pod shows no lygus stings, suggesting that heat (and not lygus) caused poor pod set at this field.
UC Dry Bean Blog: Article

Lima Bean Heat Stress

September 3, 2020
By Rachael Long, Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
Last week, I visited a baby lima field in the southwest part of San Joaquin County that had overall poor pod set. Pods were filling lower in the canopy, but flowers had not set higher on the plants.
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Corn Cob Jelly - tastes like honey! Recipe at https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_07/corncob_jelly.html
Food Blog: Article

Not your grandma’s jam

September 3, 2020
By Susan Mosbacher
As a UC Master Food Preserver Program Coordinator, I've had the privilege of teaching new volunteers eager to learn more about food preservation, who then teach in their local communities.
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