Master Gardeners

Do you have gardening questions? We're here to help!

The trained volunteers of the UC Master Gardener Program extend the services of your local Cooperative Extension advisors by providing practical and accurate horticultural information to home gardeners.

You can contact us with your gardening questions by:

calling our 'hotline' at (530) 822-7515,
dropping by our office at 142A Garden Highway, Yuba City, Tuesdays, 9-12 noon, and Thursdays, 1 to 4pm, or
e-mailing us at cesutteryuba@ucdavis.edu. Please include your name and a phone number.

A sample or picture is worth a thousand words. We encourage you to bring samples or enclose digital photos with your e-mails.

Our Yuba City Office

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Do you want to know....

How to preserve all that garden produce?

What to do about garden pests?

When, where, and what to plant?

Find these answers and more at

"California Gardening"

http://cagardenweb.ucdavis.edu/

Blog

An Uncommon Bee
Posted 5/21/2012 - Sometimes you get lucky.While watching floral visitors foraging last week in our rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora), we noticed a tiny black bee, something we'd never seen before.Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of...

Katydid, Katy Didn't
Posted 5/18/2012 - My late father, who called me "Katydid," loved poetry.Decades after he passed, a cousin gave me a set of his books from his childhood home. One was "The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," published in 1899 by T. Y. Crowell and Company.In it is a...

A Pomegranate Kind of Day
Posted 5/17/2012 - It was a pomegranate kind of day. Red, bright and wonderful.The papery-thin reddish blossoms in our yard draw both beneficial and pestiferous insects. Honey bees are there for the pollen and nectar; ladybugs are there for the pesky aphids. Occasionally...

Shirley Luckhart: Outstanding Mentor
Posted 5/16/2012 - The honor is so well deserved. UC Davis molecular biologist Shirley Luckhart, professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) and a graduate student advisor with the UC Davis Department of Entomology, has just received a 2012 Outstanding...

Sounding the Trumpet (Vine)
Posted 5/15/2012 - If you're looking for a good bee plant that offers a little bit of an obstacle, try the violet trumpet vine (Clytostoma calystegioides). It's one of the UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars.What's an Arboretum All-Star? The UC Davis Arboretum horticultural...