Test PB Collection: FTE

If you're a gardener in Napa Valley, you know that winter is not the off season it is elsewhere. In our climate, we can always plant something. When I walk into a nursery at this time of year, I feel like the proverbial kid in the candy store.

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Photographer: "Well, hello there, Jumping Spider! What 'cha doing?" Jumping Spider: "Sunning myself, that's all." Photographer: "And you're not looking for prey? Jumping Spider: "I tried to hide in that red zinnia over there, and ambush a syrphid fly but I missed.

Ornamental Plant of the Month Spiraea spp.

Just roses. Roses are planted bare root in January or February, but other rose tasks may also be done this month. Tasks New roses of many varieties are featured in magazines and articles - or view them online.

Broccoli head rot, also known as pin rot, can cause significant problems, especially in fall broccoli production in Salinas Valley. Two types of head rot are affecting broccoli, including bacterial head rot and Alternaria head rot (Koike 2010).

From an entomologist's perspective, 2023 couldn't have been a more interesting year for oak pests! The first sign of great and awesome things to come was in the spring when it became clear many oaks were going to produce abundant acorns.

There's still time to sign up for our Garden Tool Maintenance Class happening Saturday, January 13 at 9:00 a.m.

Plants, therefore avocados, go through different growth stages, so called phenological stages, regular periods where they grow and differentiate from seed to various vegetative stages, flowering and finally seed production.

[Note: Gray pine (Pinus sabiniana), buckeye (Aesculus californica), and blue oak (Quercus douglasii) are tree species that thrive in rugged local foothill woodland and chaparral habitat. Last edition, we covered the blue oak, and today the gray pine is featured.