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Pozo Blue Sage By Jackie Woods UCCE Master Gardener Planting areas: does well in alkaline soil, clay and sand; tolerates seaside conditions. Size: can grow 3-6 feet tall and just as wide. Bloom season: blooms for about 6 weeks starting late spring. Exposure: full sun.

Penny Pawl, U. C. Master Gardener of Napa County Worms are not native to North America. About 20,000 years ago, our continent experienced an Ice Age, along with Europe and Asia. The phenomenon decimated the worm population, with the only survivors in parts of Turkey and the Mediterranean.

(See PNAS paper) A newly published study by a team of scientists at Chiba University, Japan and at the University of California, Davis shows that inhibiting an enzyme, the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), plays a key role in curbing the inflammation associated with the development and progression of...

Please see the attached flier with information about the upcoming Beef Quality Assurance Transportation Workshop on May 23, 2018.

I saw an advertisement for the California Honey Festival last year and was unable to go. Fortunately, the opportunity arose again this year and I was able to attend this past weekend.

Native Bees and Bee Nests workshop Saturday May 12 10am to noon $10 You will learn about native bees (they are way different than honey bees) and how to attract them to your garden. You will also be making a bee nest like the one on the flyer. We only have materials for 20 bee boxes.

UCCE gathered parents from Earlimart Elementary School to participate in the school's memorial garden. Parents were given a designated garden bed and there they planted cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, and yellow squash.

A recent blog by Farm Advisor Rachel Freeman Long in Yolo/Solano/Sacramento Counties alerted me to a weed that I thought was mainly a northern California plant. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.

Help for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request (via phone): Help! My roses are showing some sort of diseases. My neighbor says that there are both Powdery Mildew and Black Spot on the roses.

By Cindy Watter, UC Master Gardener of Napa County About 25 years ago, my next-door neighbor brought home a half-dead tangle of a plant that she called a passionflower (Passiflora). She planted it in a large trough and set to work spraying it lavishly with Miracle-Gro.