UCCE Master Gardener Oange County News

This week on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, we bring you a gem of a show! Our beloved Master Gardener and original radio DJ Mark Fierle produced a show called “Specialty Vegetable Gardening” some time back. He talked to fellow MG Greg Stevenson about Greg’s passion for home gardening using…

Question: I have some tomatoes that haven't ripened yet and have these brown scars on the bottom and this one also had some large bites out of the other side. I've been spraying the tomatoes with a bit of cedar oil diluted with water in the mornings but no other things.Do you know what might be causing…

This week on In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners is Part 2 about preserving the harvest.  With and without refrigeration! UC Master Gardener Katrina Kirkeby will continue her talk with Ernest Miller from last week. Here are ways to retain a lot of the nutritional benefits of fresh-picked fruits and…

Your Spring garden has been producing a bounty of warm season crops. What to do with all the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and such you are bringing in from your beds? This week on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, UC Master Gardener Katrina Kirkeby will talk with the late chef, historian,…

Plumerias! Maybe the most coveted of the tropical flowers grown and blooming now in Southern California! While more likely identified as Hawaiian being a favorite flower for leis, they are actually endemic to Mexico and Central America. But any tropical environment in the world is ideal for the growing…