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The UC Master Gardener Program designed the California Garden Web to serve as a portal to organize and extend the University of California's vast collection of research-based information about gardening to the public. The California Garden Web focuses on sustainable gardening practices and uses a question and answer format to present solutions. The blog below highlights gardening issues pertaining to the season.

Can California native plants be used as cover crops to benefit farmers and native ecosystems?

Added October 21, 2021

In late February, in an almond orchard in the Sacramento Valley, the fall-planted cover crop mix of grasses, brassicas and legumes had barely produced a green fuzz above the soil surface, and it was unclear when it would...
UC Davis to lead groundwater and irrigated agriculture sustainability study

Added October 18, 2021

Effort Will Develop Ways to Minimize Risk from Climate Extremes for Southwest Growers Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of...

These Microscopic Parasitic Nematodes or Round Worms Spit Venom

Added October 26, 2021

Who knew? Who knew that you, along with billions of other people, could be infected with undetected microscopic parasitic nematodes, or round worms? And that they spit...