Test PB Collection: FTE

Chickens are delightful creatures that not only provide us with delicious eggs, they also provide many reasons for us to include them in our gardens!

Orange County averages about 13 inches of rain per year (Metropolitan Water District of Orange County), which puts us a few inches away from being a desert, which averages ten inches of rain per year. Recent drought years have focused attention on the amount of water we use in our landscape.

1. Check your irrigation system. Turn on your sprinklers for a few minutes and check for overspray, runoff, and broken sprinkler heads. Make necessary adjustments and repairs. 2. Adjust your irrigation timer to water early in the morning.

Turf has it's place in the landscape. It's a great surface for recreation and it also acts as a filter for pollutants. There are several choices available to us in southern California.

Invasive shot hole borers, both polyphagous shot hole borers and Kuroshio shot hole borers are killing trees throughout Orange County. Both beetles introduce Fusarium fungus into the tree, which eventually kills the tree. Over forty species of trees can be affected.

Chilli thrips (scirtothrips dorsalis Hood) were first reported in Florida in October of 1991 and made their way to Orange County by August of 2015. They prey on over 200 different plants including, as their name implies, peppers.

The Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) has been in Orange County since 2008, but did not become a serious threat to citrus trees until a disease, Huanglongbing (HLB) arrived in the Los Angeles area in 2012. Asian Citrus Psyllids are sucking insects.

Adin SWEEP Meeting Presentation...

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California 4-H and FFA youth have the opportunity to take home and train a Devils Garden Wild Horse weanling. The weanlings are 4-6 months old at pick up.