Posts Tagged: harvesting
Lettuce be thankful for year round lettuce
By Yvonne Rasmussen, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Did you know you can grow lettuce...
Summer crisp (Batavia) (johnnyseeds.com)
Speckled trout (fuition seeds.com)
Red sails (pinterest.com)
Red sails organic (pinterest.com)
Little gem (groworganic.com)
Summer crisp (oldworldgardenfarms.com)
Figs.
By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County I still remember my first...
Figs. (thespruce.com)
Figs in antiquity. (studyblue.com)
A few of the many fig varieties. (prnewswire.com)
Painting tree trunks helps prevent sunburn. (hunker.com)
Inside a fig. (pixabay.com)
Keeping fig (and all fruit) trees short keeps them manageable. (growinggreener.blogspot.com)
Fig scions, be sure to label! (figbid.com)
Put scions in soil. (italiangardening.com)
When rooted, plant them. (ourfigs.com)
Use a gopher guard when planting. (thebulkdepot.com)
Just a few of the gazillion fig varieties. (babylonstoren.com)
New Year's Garden Resolutions.
By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Many of us set goals at the...
Plant natives! CNPS logo
Plant for pollinators (NRCS-USDA)
Keep that cash for grass in mind. (Town of Yountville)
African Odyssey: From a Fog-Harvesting Beetle to a Thundering Elephant
Entomologists don't always study insects. If you're James R. Carey , distinguished professor of...
A Racing Stripe Darkling Beetle at Epupa Falls, Namibia. (Photo by Hans Hillewaert, Courtesy of Wikipedia)
The world's second highest sand dune (Sossusvlei's Big Daddy). (Photo by Patty Carey)
Entomologist James R. Carey also took an interest in elephants on his African Odyssey. This is an African elephant in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. (Photo by Patty Carey)
Catch Me If You Can: Harvesting the Rain
By Barbara Ott, Butte County Master Gardener, January 16, 2015 Many plants that do well in our...