In this Issue: Pasture Aeration Trial Research Update on Using a Rotary Wiper 2010/11 Northern California Winter Pasture Experience Effects of Heavy Grazing on Tarweek and Vinegarweed Controlling Wire Grass in Irrigated Pastures A Method…
Come see our succulent collection, and bring any succulent questions you may have! This will be our first succulent sale of 2026. Treat yourself, or your Valentine, to a beautiful new plant or succulent arrangement for the New Year.Free entrance; variable succulent pricesNote: The park charges $6 for…
By Kevin Marini, UC Community Education Specialist: Natural ResourcesFrom The Curious Gardener, Spring 2023 In this day and age, it can be challenging to find common ground on a myriad of social and environmental issues that confront us in our modern societies. It has become a societal norm to hold a…
In this Issue: Operation Organized Chaos...with food Steer Tagging Date Pollination Garden Date County Ambassador Team in Action Countywide Favorite Foods Day - registration is open Stills Day Camp Volunteers Happy Valley…
Suds for a bug. A butterfly for a beer...If you find and collect the first cabbage white butterfly in the three-county area of Sacramento, Yolo and Solano, and you are judged the winner of the annual "Beer for a Butterfly" Contest, you will receive a pitcher of beer or its equivalent.And bragging…
Have you noticed some curly, spikey, gray-green alien-like plants resting in a shell, hanging from a ceiling, perched on windowsills, clustered on coffee tables…no soil or water in sight?Meet tillandsias, also known as air plants, a wondrous family of plants that literally thrive on air! They are low…
By Kathryn MacRoberts, UC Master Gardeners of Placer CountyFrom The Curious Gardener, Winter 2013“One berry, two berry, pick me a blueberry. Hatberry, shoeberry, in my canoeberry. Under the bridge, and over the dam, looking for berries, berries for jam.” Would you like a Berryland? Who doesn’t love…
By Laurie Meyerpeter, UC Master Gardeners of Placer CountyQ: I have a black bamboo that is too large for the pot. How and when should I divide it? A: Black bamboo is a running bamboo so it is wise to grow it in a container or use a bamboo barrier product if grown in the garden. Mature running…
By Laurie McGonagill, UC Master Gardener of Placer County The currant is a fruiting vine in the genus Ribes you may have avoided because of the prickles. Rest assured, it is the gooseberry—also in Grossulariaceae, the gooseberry family—not the currant, which has spines (prickles). Currants are…
By Nicole Harrison, UC Master Gardeners of Placer CountyFrom The Curious Gardener, Fall 2021 Arboriculture is a broad industry and there are different types of Arborists with different qualifications. The term ‘Arborist’ is broad. Most industries have a term like this that has a broad meaning. Think…
