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

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...

Red Alert!
Posted 5/14/2012 - Our yard is filled with such bee friendly plants as salvia, lavender, catmint and rock purslane. Lately, however, the honey bees have taken a liking to the sugar-water mixture from our hummingbird feeder. Manufacturers' bee guards are meant to deter...

Nature's Poetry
Posted 5/10/2012 - If you head over to the 137th annual Dixon May Fair, the state's oldest continuous fair, you'll see a flurry of butterflies. The fair, located at 655 S. First St., Dixon, opened Thursday, May 10 and continues through Sunday, May 13. Colorful...

Why Honey Bees Stop the (Waggle) Dancing
Posted 5/9/2012 - A honey bee foraging in a lavender patch encounters a jumping spider and narrowly avoids becoming prey.HB returns to the hive only to notice a sister doing the waggle dance to communicate (erroneously) what a good foraging site this lavender patch is,...

A Call from TED, Enough Said!
Posted 5/8/2012 - When TED extends an invite, that's a high honor.Scientists-artists Diane Ullman and Donna Billick, co-founders and co-directors of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program, have been invited to speak at the second annual TEDx...