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Green Scene Late January 2023

January 25, 2023
40th Annual Landscape Management Seminar Horticulture Classes for Landscapes and Gardens Spring 2023 Horticultural Tour Shade Tree Pruning, A Cautionary Note A Reminder: For Maintenance Gardeners and Those Who Employ Them...
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

New study shows variation of WIC participants’ perceptions and satisfaction with WIC nutrition education and services by race, ethnicity, and language preference

January 25, 2023
By Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie
The federal Special Supplemental Nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, aims to safeguard the health of over 6 million low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 in the United States by providing nutritious foods, information on healthy eating, and referrals for ad...
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Blooming Bermuda buttercup next to a residential fence.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Weeds in Landscape Plantings

January 25, 2023
By Lauren Fordyce
[Originally featured in the Winter 2022 Issue of UC IPM's Green Bulletin Newsletter] Weeds can be a problem in any landscaped areas including around trees, shrubs, flower beds, or lawns and turf.
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

How to Garden When You Rent

January 25, 2023
The book How to Garden When You Rent, by Matthew Pottage (Dorling Kindersely, 2022 available for loan from the Solano County Library) is a good reminder that anyone can garden, regardless of whether you own a home, or rent a home, apartment or room.
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Strawberries and Caneberries: Article

Soils Saturated Heavily - What Now?

January 24, 2023
By Mark P Bolda
Along with the rising waters of the past few weeks, concerns about the status of our strawberries have risen as well. For their part strawberry roots, as you can see from paragraph #6 out of the book "Small Fruit Management by Galleta and Himelrick, depend on oxygen.
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This is a net-casting spider that UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Lisa Chamberland studies. (Image courtesy of Lisa Chamberland)
Bug Squad: Article

Lisa Chamberland: About Those Ogre-Faced Spiders....

January 24, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're curious about ogre-faced spiders, then you'll want to hear what UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and arachnologist Lisa Chamberland has to say about her research at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
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Under the Solano Sun: Article

My Goldilocks Plant

January 24, 2023
When we bought our Ming aralia it was this stumpy thing with almost no foliage, not my idea of a plant I'd like to own. Fortunately, my husband fell in love with the plant, and home it went. It has been living with us for years, in health, in decline (more on this later!), and renewal.
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