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Live Well in the Garden

This is your one stop site for information to use gardening techniques to improve your health and wellness, take those techniques to the workplace, or enjoy an activity with loved ones you care for. Gardening is an easy self-care tool that you can do just about anywhere.
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Vegetable Crops

Patricia Lazicki, Farm Advisor for Vegetable Crops The Vegetable Crops Program fosters appropriate research and collects and disseminates relevant information to growers, processors and related industries in the California vegetable industry.
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Pest Management

Rachael Long is an Emeritus Farm Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension in Yolo, Solano, and Sacramento Counties. She has statewide expertise in entomology, Integrated Pest Management, and pollination ecology for field crops production.
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Delta Region Areawide Aquatic Weed Project

Participants NASA Ames Research Center USDA-ARS Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research Unit California Dept of Parks & Recreation - Division of Boating & Waterways California Dept of Food & Agriculture Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy University of California, Davis Local mosquito v...
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UC Master Food Preserver Coordinators

Dear Program Coordinators, Advisors and County Directors, Welcome to the MFP Coordinator website and the UC Master Food Preserver Program! This is an exciting time for the UC Master Food Preserver Program.
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Urban and Community IPM Capital Corridor

This is the web page of Karey Windbiel-Rojas, Area Urban Integrated Pest Management Advisor for UC Cooperative Extension serving Sacramento, Yolo, and Solano counties. Current projects are listed in the left side column.
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Small Farms and Urban Agriculture

Organic Influence of Orchard Grazing on Soil Fertility and Pest Control While Mitigating Food Safety Risks, USDA-NIFA OREI. Pires A (UC Davis), Gaudin A (Co-PI, Dept. Plant Science, UC Davis),Wilson H (Co-PI, UC Riverside), Goodrich B (Co-Investigator, Dept.
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Igor's Urban Website!

Igor Lacan is a University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor for the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in urban forestry. My program of applied research and extension provides technical and policy tools to advance sustainable environmental management.
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UC Cooperative Extension Capitol Corridor

We’re Tilling the SoilWe are currently preparing a new digital landscape for you. Just like a good harvest, a great user experience takes time to root. Our new site is currently germinating and will be ready for harvest soon.   UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE), Capitol CorridorThe UCCE Capitol…
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Fire blight inhibits fruit development on pear. J. Alosi

It’s Fire Blight Season!

April 1, 2026
If you are noticing droopy, dried-out flower clusters on your pears, Asian pears, quince, apples or crabapples, fire blight may be the cause. Fire blight is caused by a bacterium and is a common and frequently destructive disease that usually shows up in April and May, but during dry spell, it may appear in…
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White heirloom roses

Rosie's corner: Caring for April roses

April 1, 2026
 April fertilizing and deadheading After your roses have completed their first bloom, it will be time to deadhead and feed them. You should get a nice second bloom about six weeks after fertilizing. Remember, deadheading is not the same as pruning. There are two steps to deadheading. When the…
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ANR Employee News: Article

Names in the News

March 31, 2026
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Summer Cortez, Ben Baldi, Lauren Hale, Carrie Brown and Evan Talmage joined UC ANR or took new positions within UC ANR recently.
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Honey bee eclosing

'The Little Things That Run the World'

March 31, 2026
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 "The little things run the world," mused entomologist, biologist, naturalist and ecologist E. O. Wilson (1929-2023).He was referring to "the disproportionate role that they and other invertebrates play in food webs, ecosystem services, and generating and maintaining biological diversity," according to…
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UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties: Article

Tomato Disease Resistance Codes

March 31, 2026
By Cathrin Callas
Disease Resistance CodesSome tomato varieties are developed to be resistant to certain diseases and pests. Codes may be listed with the tomato information. Here is a list of some codes that you may see. For more details about some that may apply to our area, see the article Decoding Tomato Disease Resistance…
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Thrips/TSWV status in Yolo & Colusa: Article

2026 First Report--March 31st

March 31, 2026
By Patricia A Lazicki, Neil McRoberts
With a dryer-than-average winter, warm nighttime temperatures, and record-breaking high daytime temperatures in March, 2026 is off to a warm start.   Figure 1. Recorded temperatures (blue bars) between 10/01/2025 and 10/23/2026 for Davis, CA, compared to our normal temperature range (beige…
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UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County: Event

Grow Your Best Summer Garden: Tomatoes, Peppers, and More - Palo Alto

May 9, 2026

It's time to plant and care for your summer jewels, your warm-season vegetables, your most tasty tomatoes, peppers and more! Do they need pollinators, support, protection? Come and learn the secrets to growing tomatoes, peppers and more summer veggies.
UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County
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UC Cooperative Extension Sonoma County: Event

Ant ID Workshop

Apr 29, 2026

Who is invited: Viticulturists, vineyard managers, winemakers, license holders, grower relations, field scouts, field workers, interns, and anyone in the wine grape industry interested in learning how to ID ant species commonly found in the vineyard. Ants protect mealybugs from predators and…
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