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Pest Management & Plant Health
UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo & San Francisco Counties: Event
Full course website: https://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/Nature_Up_Close/ Earn your CalNat certification on the beautiful Central Coast of California, near Morro Bay.
Join the UC Master Gardeners of Napa Valley to plan your vegetable growing for the warming weather ahead. Plant cool season crops now and then transition to heat loving vegetables in a few months. Topics include soil prep, fertilizing, managing pests, irrigation, and planting schedules.
With winter rains, come springtime weeds. Learn how to identify common weeds that emerge in the spring and how you can prevent or control them from popping up in your landscape. Register at https://ucanr.zoom.
Want to solve your pest problems in the garden using methods that lessen risks to people and the environment? Are you interested in less toxic pest management?
Full course website: http://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/ARC/ Audubon Canyon Ranchs California Naturalist course serves as our docent training program. It gives volunteers a firm grounding in local natural history and the ability to recognize and capitalize on teachable moments.
Wasps are a very diverse group of insects. Some species can be a nuisance, creating galls on plants and stinging people, but many others are beneficial pollinators and predators of pests, such as aphids.