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Ventura County Master Gardener Newsletter, Let's Get Growing!
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Garden Checklist for October
Photo credit: Lyonshall Nursery
| October is when we should finally feel the shift to cooler temperatures and shorter days. It's a great month to purchase native plants from nurseries, plant cool season edibles, select your bulbs for spring color, and plan for the upcoming fall and winter winds, which typically run from October to June. Mums and marigolds are a great way to add fall color! |
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Be Water Wise!
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Happy Arachtober!
It's October and Arachtober: the month to celebrate spiders and other arachnids.
As arachnologists will tell you, arachnids are arthropods that include spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and...
Zeroing in on Honey Bees
The next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology promises to be of great interest to bee scientists, beekeepers, and all those who want to learn more about honey bees.
An international leader in honey bee...
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