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Sure, this time of year, your Gilroy lawn looks pretty amazing. Cooler temperatures and a little rain can do wonders. It's probably lush and thick and green and ready for mowing. But you know it won't last.

After all the work home gardeners have done preparing garden beds, pulling weeds and irrigating, summer is normally a time of plenty.

Our water bills are on the rise! And, although we had a very wet winter last year, predictions are for more dry years to come. As you may know, most of our water usage approximately 50 percent goes to our landscapes.

If you want to stay ahead of the game in the garden, now is a good time to do some, or all, of the things on today's list. Fruit-tree pruning Fruit-tree pruning is best done this month and in February. Trim off dead or damaged branches. Open up the tree's canopy by removing crossing branches.

Dandelions are broadleaf plants easily recognizable by their bright yellow flower and puffball of white tufted seeds heads.

(Editor's Note: The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will showcase three museums or collections on Feb. 17: Bohart Museum of Entomology, Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, and the Nematode Collection.

If you're a graduate student engaged in pollinator research, you may want to enter the Graduate Student Research Poster competition, to take place Saturday, March 3 during the fourth annual UC Davis Bee Symposium in the UC Davis Conference Center. The winners will share $1800 in cash prizes.

San Joaquin Valley production of moringa, a purported superfood that is typically imported to the United States from the tropics, might open the door for small scale farmers to break into a value-added business, reported Katrina Schwartz of KQED News.

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