Posts Tagged: sweet potatoes
More sweet potatoes growing in California
Sweet potatoes are extremely heat tolerant, so they can handle Merced County's hot summer days and moderate nights.
A hungry pest is devouring San Diego County oak trees
Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
The goldspotted oak borer is devouring enormous numbers of oak trees in San Diego County and its devastation could spread to trees throughout California, according to researchers at UC Riverside. "This may be the biggest oak mortality event since the Pleistocene [epoch] 12,000 years ago," UC Riverside natural resource specialist Tom Scott said in a report issued last week. The Times story was prompted by a UC Riverside news release.