UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

As we start the winter season today, many locals and tourist to our area look forward to the end of winter when the Napa Valley comes alive with the beauty of yellow mustard flower that has been celebrated for many years in the Napa Valley Mustard Festival.

Herbicide resistance is the inability of an herbicide to control a weed species that it was previously effective against. Weed scientists will often tell growers that a means for managing resistance is to rotate herbicide chemistries such that you are rotating among mechanisms of action.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed Thursday a lower court's judgment awarding nearly $48 million in a case that challenged the state's cap on punitive damages.

Working in concert with the California Nursery industry and PlantRight, the UCCE Master Gardeners participated in an on the ground nursery survey to track the retail market for garden related invasive plants in California.

A neighbor asked me to identify a robust perennial that keeps coming up in his garden. It had long, tropical-looking leaves and floppy racemes with small white flowers. This was a new one for me. Turned out it was common pokeweed (Phytolacca americana), a native of eastern North America.