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UCCE gathered parents from Earlimart Elementary School to participate in the school's memorial garden. Parents were given a designated garden bed and there they planted cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, and yellow squash.

A recent blog by Farm Advisor Rachel Freeman Long in Yolo/Solano/Sacramento Counties alerted me to a weed that I thought was mainly a northern California plant. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.

Help for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request (via phone): Help! My roses are showing some sort of diseases. My neighbor says that there are both Powdery Mildew and Black Spot on the roses.

By Cindy Watter, UC Master Gardener of Napa County About 25 years ago, my next-door neighbor brought home a half-dead tangle of a plant that she called a passionflower (Passiflora). She planted it in a large trough and set to work spraying it lavishly with Miracle-Gro.

Tadpole shrimp (TPS) are starting to pop up in rice fields. A grower asked me when is the period when rice is safe from TPS. He is seeing very small shrimp, and seedlings are already past the first leave stage of rice (lsr).

In this issue: Considerations for a Successful Sorghum Silage Crop 2018 California Leopold Conservation Award Seeks Nominees Small Grains and Soil Health Field Meeting Managing Water for Drought and Salinity Nitrogen Efficiency in Almond Production Nitrogen Management in Tomatoes...

It's not just honey bees that will "share the love" Saturday, May 5 at the second annual California Honey Festival. Although the festival, set from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

With the majority of fall-planted California small grain crops reaching grain ripening stages and annual precipitation mostly finished, let's review 2017-18 seasonal weather patterns across the small grain regions of the state and at the UC small grain testing sites.

May 4, 2018 Geoff Koch, a brand new PhD student in the Department of Soils and Biogeochemistry at the University of California, Davis, working with soil scientist, Will Horwath, and CASI Cooperative Extension partners, Jeff Mitchell and Dan Munk, began his research project in earnest this week with...

In this issue: -Fashion Revue Highlights -All Star & Leadership Team Information -Summer Camp Information...