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How To Make A Showcase Garden
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PODCAST: How To Make A Showcase Garden

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Apr 7 2025

This week on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, the topic is How to Create a Showcase Garden! We are coming up on the high season for weddings, graduations, and all of those outdoor summer events we all love. Three UCCE Master Gardeners Teena Spindler and Kay Havens will discuss how to get your…
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This Month In The Garden – April
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PODCAST: This Month In The Garden – April

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Apr 3 2025

It’s the start of April so time for This Month In The Garden, the monthly tips and tricks show hosted by our own Master Gardeners Teena Spindler and Katrina Kirkeby. Color pops in the garden this month with perennials such as lavender, camellias, azaleas, dahlias, and flowers like bearded iris, gladiolas,…
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Valley oak tree atop a hill of brown grass.
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Webinar: Mediterranean Oak Borer & Other Pests of California Oaks

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Apr 10 2025

The Mediterranean Oak Borer (MOB) is an invasive ambrosia beetle that infests several species of white oaks in California: valley oak, blue oak, and Oregon oak. The beetle is spreading rapidly in Napa, Lake, Sonoma, and Sacramento Counties and has been detected in neighboring El Dorado, Yolo, and Mendocino…
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Horn Worm on a tomato plant
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Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

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Apr 8 2025

Integrated Pest Management--Managing pest with environmentally sound methods, and answers to your "bugly" problems.   Come and hear about multiple techniques for effective pest control that are the least toxic.  Discover methods to keep bad pests away and encourage beneficial insects, all…
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Central Sierra: Back to Basics (EDC MG)

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Apr 19 2025

Are you brand new to gardening, but have a burning desire to learn proper practices? Have you had some gardening experience, but not much success achieving healthy plants? Plan to attend MG Sheri Burke's free public education class on "Back to Basics.
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Central Sierra: Container Magic (EDC MG)

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Mar 29 2025

Dive into the world of container gardening with Master Gardeners. Learn everything you need to know to create a thriving container garden in any space – from choosing the right container, to plant selection and planting techniques, and the how to-s of container plant care.
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2025 Grange Spring Plant Give and Take

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Mar 29 2025

2025 Spring Plant Give and Take The Plant Give and Take event is a FREE event for all community members to exchange plants and other garden items, presented by the Merced Colony Grange with volunteer help from UC Master Gardener Program of Merced County.
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 Field bindweed, a noxious weed in California has distinctive leaves and white flowers. Jeanette Alosi
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What Makes a Weed a Weed?

April 21st, 2025
For many of us, gardening involves a constant battle with weeds. Basically, a weed is nothing more than a plant growing where it is not wanted, the classic example being dandelions in the lawn. But as the old saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” and there are many “weeds” that are, in…
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