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Over the past few months, gardeners have asked the UCCE Master Gardeners for help with their grapes.

We've all seen them....garden catalogs or magazine articles with cute little bee houses hanging like birdfeeders, or entire fences made of nesting tubes for solitary bees. We even had them at the Haven -- for a while -- in the form of bee condos.

Emily Bick, who joined the doctoral program in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in September 2015, will present her exit seminar at 3 p.m., Monday, Aug. 5 in Room 158 of Briggs Hall.

Blue Potato Plant By Polly Nelson UCCE Master Gardener Scientific name: Solanum rantonnetii Planting area: USDA 9-11 Size: 5-8 feet tall, 3-5 feet wide Bloom Season: spring through summer to late fall Exposure: Full sun, partial shade in warmer areas Water needs: regular This sun-loving perennial pr...

Come learn basic irrigation management in orchards and vineyards at the Madera Farm Bureau from 8-10 AM on August 27. We will cover evapotranspiration, soil sensors, and pressure chambers. Registration is free, but since space is limited, required.

Congratulations to the recipients of the CDFA Healthy Soils Program! Nine Mendocino farmers were selected for an award, totaling over $300k going to make Mendocino County soils that much healthier.

(Please share widely) Post Doctoral Scholar Opportunity University of California, Davis Small Fruit Insect IPM Post-doctoral Position A post-doctoral position is currently available for two years focusing on spotted wing drosophila (SWD) population biology, insecticide resistance, and management in...

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Climate change is real and it is changing rapidly in our lifetime. As Gardeners, we should be prepared to adapt to the new normal. Climate changes that affect us are: increase in temperatures; rising sea levels; extreme weather swings, droughts; and, wildfires.

For millennia, fires periodically burned through California forests, thinning trees, reducing shrubbery and clearing out downed branches and debris. Without periodic fire, the forests became more dense, with spaces between large trees filling in with a thick carpet of duff, seedlings and shrubs.