Test PB Collection: FTE

State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program Project Funding up to $100,000 Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - UCCE Kern County 1031 S. Mt.

State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program Project Funding up to $100,000 Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - UCCE Kern County 1031 S. Mt.

Posted on October 6, 2019 by jaylund by Jay Lund Here is a partial collection of truisms on water management. These are common ideas that seem obviously true (particularly in the western US), but still offer insights and perspective.

So here are all these milkweed bugs clustered on a showy milkweed leaf, Asclepias speciosa. It's early morning and the red bugs are a real eye opener.

Like many Master Gardeners, Christy Gray came to the program with a range of experiences and a strong affinity for her San Bernardino community.

Even though summer has ended, there's still a ton of tasks for gardeners this month. In October you should continue to clean up any fruit that has fallen to the ground and to remove any fruit mummies left on the tree to help minimize diseases.

Its not too late to register for the San Joaquin Valley Spray Application Short Course (November 12-14). Here's a link to the webpage: https://ucanr.edu/sites/SJVSprayApplication/Home/ Here's a link to the full agenda: https://ucanr.

Boom, just when you think everything is going fine, you run across a reminder that there are little things going on in the orchard that are out of our control.

Since apples are available in stores year-round, it's easy to forget that their peak season is in the Autumn but nothing announces the arrival of Fall quite like a crisp apple.

I started growing milkweed a few years ago when I heard about declining numbers of Monarch butterflies. I planted Narrow-leaf Milkweed or Asclepias fasicularis, a California native. This plant is a perennial that dies back every winter but comes back in spring.