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What are all the essentials you need to know to be a successful vegetable gardener? We'll review the importance of selecting the planting site for sun/shade, improving and preparing your soil, watering, mulching, fertilizing, deciding what to plant, and keeping pests at an acceptable level.

Adopt eco-friendly strategies to manage pests in your garden. Explore Integrated Pest Management techniques, emphasizing non-toxic solutions and minimizing pesticide use to promote a healthy garden ecosystem.

Adopt eco-friendly strategies to manage pests in your garden. Explore Integrated Pest Management techniques, emphasizing non-toxic solutions and minimizing pesticide use to promote a healthy garden ecosystem.

Magnificent Magnolias Description: Come join us to learn about the ancient flowering trees that have endeared themselves to humans for millennia.

This timely topic presented by Solano County Master Gardener Aaron will cover raising hens in an urban/suburban setting, focusing on the pros and cons of hens in the garden, eggs and egg safety, and much more!...

For School Garden Educators, Administrators this workshop covers garden-based next generation science lessons; student notebooks and lesson plans; and engagement in garden-based science activities. Participants will have an opportunity to network with other Expanded Learning staff and connect with UC Master…

Create beautiful, rich, nutritious compost from kitchen and garden scraps, along with help from the vermiculture community. Worms consume the biomass you provide them, digest it, and then excrete worm casting. This workshop, taught by a Certified Composter, will show you how to start the process and keep the…

Learn the steps that professionals use to develop beautiful, cohesive, lower-maintenance planting designs. Hint: buying the plants is the last step.

This workshop explores the nature of weeds, and why it’s important to correctly identify which weeds you are battling. We’ll offer tools to help with this, including a hands-on practicum. Primary strategies for weed control are Integrated Pest Management methods; we’ll have a quick primer on chemical…

learn the steps that professionals use to develop beautiful, cohesive, lower-maintenance planting designs. Hint: buying the plants is the last step.