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Photo: Emmy Ulmschneider – Her daughter working on a Monarch school project By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener On his last visit,...

Photo: Emmy Ulmschneider By Debbie Rowland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever heard of cochineal? And I am not...

Photo: www.calblendsoils.com By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners On a walk last week, I came across an...

By Debbie Roland, Master Gardener If you have ever had grubs in your yard or flowerbeds you know that they can cause quite a bit of damage. White grubs, sometimes referred to as grub worms, are the larval stage of Junebugs or June beetles. Grubs have four life stages: Egg, larvae, pupae and adult. There are over 100 species and only a few causes damage. However, a few species damage turfgrass and other cultivated plants. White grubs feed on roots and other undergroun

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners It is Monarch migration time! The fifth generation is beginning their long trip...

By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener During the summer, I love to sit out on the patio and watch butterflies in my garden. All day...

By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener If you have ever visited a garden in full bloom, maybe you noticed the vast array of different...

By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener I became a septuagenarian this week and in those seventy circuits around the sun I have seen many...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners As we have been in our yards this season, we both have noticed how few...

By Debbie Roland, Emmy Ulmschneider, and Shirley Kelley, Master Gardeners Insects are the cogs that keep our Earth’s machinery running. ...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Last year when the monarchs were migrating, I wondered where the rest of the...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Most of us are familiar with the European honeybee which was brought by...

Debbie Roland, Master Gardener Several years ago I lucked into a 6’ in diameter tub from the recycling center. It’s about 30” tall and...

Debbie Roland, Master Gardener I love most living things but I have never been able to warm up to spiders or snakes. I do feel like I am...

by Barbara Porsch-Master Gardener-herb enthusiast We haven’t talked about parsley in a long time, so let’s talk about parsley this month....

by Karen Miller, Master Gardener Entomology Specialist There are bad bugs, and then, there are bad, bad bugs. Spider mites are bad, bad,...

by Carl White Master Gardener To those who are unaware, this is one garden pest whose life objective is to destroy your garden or...

by Carl White, Master Gardener We are all familiar with the sounds of summer including bird calls, trilling of crickets, drone of bees...

by Carl White Learning to recognize the insects of the garden is so helpful in order that we don’t destroy the beneficial predators which...

by Carl White, Master Gardener To observe this most beneficial insect, the preying stance in which the powerful forelegs are folded into...