Celebrate Earth Day every day
Whether it’s from annual flowers, native perennials or fruiting bushes and trees, bees needs food throughout the year, so keep them and other pollinators in mind when you choose plants for your garden. And...
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Eeek, it’s weed season already!
Crabgrass is easiest to eradicate when it’s about this size. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark, courtesy UCIPM) Bedstraw is the scourge of pet owners. (Photo: Kathy Morrison) The only time I envy gardeners living...
An eye-opening reminder about dangerous pesticides
(Illustration courtesy UC Integrated Pest Management, Pest Note 74126) Pesticides can do more than kill unwanted insects; they can harm you, too. Cherry Hoover found that out the hard way while cleaning out her...