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By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Although the nursery rhyme tells us that Little Miss Muffet was frightened by them, spiders are in fact beneficial insects.

What do ice cream, potato chips, Scotch and Spanish Broom, and Tree of Heaven have in common? While they're all tempting to indulge in, less is more.

Happy summer! It's time to get the barbecue grilling and the pool party started. To keep your summer healthy and fun, UC ANR offers some important safety tips. Food poisoning is a serious health threat in the United States, especially during the hot summer months.

Editor's note: Master Gardeners are keeping busy in their own gardens during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Somehow we missed having this posted for June 20. Catch up now! Article for June 27 will be posted June 29. By Pat Hitchcock, U. C. Master Gardener of Napa County Plant some beans! Warm settled weather found me planting beans in the garden.

Picture this during National Pollinator Week: five monarch caterpillars and assorted honey bees sharing tropical milkweed. It was love at first bite. Or love at first sip. The 'cats kept munching and the bees kept foraging. Neither species seemed interested in the other.

In this issue: Advisor Farewell Pre-Harvest Walnut Orchard Management Managing Mold in Walnuts Ethephon in a Straggled Leaf-Out, Lean Price Year Managing Walnut Orchards for Insect-Eating Birds...

I had a good patch of California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) that had just finished flowering when I noticed the foliage on one of them was somewhat grayer in color than its neighbors. I did not think much of it at the time and put it down to being some sort of natural variant.

This year has brought many changes to our personal and professional lives especially in how it has changed how we interact.

The Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences program in the Central Sierra values community health and health equity, and recognizes that these goals will never be achieved as long as racism and structural inequality persist in our communities and in our country.