Description: Learn the secrets to a successful, healthy and colorful succulent landscape from Janice Moody, a local Master Gardener, nursery owner and garden designer. She will discuss pre-planting considerations before you go out and buy a truckload of plants and then ponder where to put them. …
Fire Safe Landscape.Join UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County online for a Garden Talk on Fire Safe Landscape.Topics Covered will be:Meaning of Fire SafeDefensible SpaceLandscaping for FireChoosing Plants
Let’s talk summer gardening in Sonoma County!Native bugs and beesHappy fruit trees!Tomatoes and veggies, please!Learn about attracting pollinators that make your garden successful, caring for fruit trees, and growing great tomato and vegetable harvests. Wildflower seeds available while supplies…
June is peak growing season here in Sonoma County, but it’s also prime time for pests in the vegetable garden! Join us for this informative workshop. We will explore how to identify, prevent, and manage common garden pests that threaten your crops. Learn about organic and integrated pest…
It's time to plant and care for your summer jewels, your warm-season vegetables, your most tasty tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash, and cucumbers. Learn how to water, feed, protect, and support your plants so you can grow a fruitful bounty. Which plants need pollinators to set fruit or are fussy about how…
The gardening technique of the "Three Sisters" where corn, beans, and squash are planted together in a mutually beneficial arrangement. Enjoy discussing the 3 Sisters planting method with UC Master Gardener Aparna Bugwadia. We will discuss the history of the 3 Sisters planting, and how it is a sustainable…
You’ve got tomato & pepper seedlings ready to go into your garden, but what about some salad and main-course vegetables? With warming garden soil and lengthening days, now’s the time to start cucumbers, squash, beans, and more from seed. You can plant seeds of many warm season vegetables directly into…
Have you heard about the recent reports of the decline in monarch butterflies? Do you wonder how you can help? Join us for an upcoming workshop presented by Santa Clara County Master Gardener Rebecca Schoenberger. In the workshop, you will learn about the monarch butterfly’s life cycle, habitat, and…
The Bay Area's mild climate supports multiple seasons for growing a diverse number of Asian vegetables. Come and learn how to plan for and grow a variety of nutritious and delicious Asian Vegetables throughout the year.
This week on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, you are in for a real listening treat! A replay of a wonderful broadcast from 2016. UC Master Gardener and show host Teena Spindler devotes the entire hour to the “Joy of Blooming Perennials.” Her guest is Horticultural Consultant and “The Plantsman…
