Nutrition & Health

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Kitchen Pest Quick Tip Cards

Kitchen Pest Quick Tip Cards contain valuable information on identifying, managing, and preventing common pests in your kitchen, and also a quick guide on earthquake safety.
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Golden-orange tomatoes with red blushing
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Public Tomato Trial

We invite you to join our public tomato trial and be a citizen scientist! Help us gather information by growing trial tomatoes in your garden and reporting the results.
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Pile of long red and yellow peppers
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Spring Garden Fair Peppers/Chiles

We offer a wide range of delicious and unusual pepper/chile seedlings from around the world—India, South America, Mexico, Africa, USA and more. Whether you like sweet and juicy or hot and searing, you‘ll find many choices to please your palate.
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Muscat Grapes. Photo CA Garden Web
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Grapes

When to plant: February to March Harvest window: July to October, depending on variety Fertilization: Light (if any) nitrogen in the spring; monitor for possible zinc and potassium needs Prune in the dormant season, using the pruning system (cane or spur pruning) based on the grape variety.
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Yellow Onions (Photo: Evett Kilmartin)
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Onion Handout

Biennial monocot with prominent bulb, hollow cylindrical leaves, and an odor when bruised. Roots shallow, 12 to 18 inches. Has been used for food since very early times; it was eaten in Egypt before 3000 B.C. Also used as flavoring in nearly every current world culture. Botanically, there are three groups…
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Healthy Living

4-H empowers you to be healthy in both body and mind. Having the confidence and skills to lead a healthy lifestyle improves your overall well-being and ability to tackle today's challenges.
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Harvesting and Preserving Dill
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Harvesting and Preserving Dill

If you allow dill to flower, leaf production will cease; when it sets seed, the plant dies. Therefore, plan your dill harvest based on whether you want to use fresh dill in recipes, preserve leaves (dill weed) and/or preserve seed.
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expert tips for growing Asian greens in the Sonoma County home garden
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Asian Greens

These leafy vegetables are easy to grow in cool weather, spring or fall, in Sonoma County. Plants in an array of colors enliven the garden in the off-season, often indicating spiciness and aroma in the kitchen. Asian greens are known by alternate plant names in different cultures.
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