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Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management
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Reduce Soil Pests with Sunlight

Soil solarization is a method home gardeners and farmers can use to manage soilborne pests such as weeds, disease pathogens, nematodes and insects. Solarization can reduce help reduce pesticides used to control these pests. Soil solarization is...
New Invasive Plant Resources

Invasive plants—plants that can disperse, establish, and spread without human assistance or disturbance—pose a serious problem in California's waterways, wildlands and rangelands. Common garden weeds, unlike invasive plants, don't generally...
Giant Reed in a stream. (J. DiTomaso)