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Child Friendly Rose Varieties for Your Garden

Dan June 21, 2019 Nursery Crops, This Land of Ours

If you have a flower garden, you have roses. Cathy Isom tells you about a few of the rose varieties that are ouch-free for your garden. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Roses are known for both their beauty and their thorns, or prickles, that have a tendency to draw blood if we aren’t careful. Accidents and stumbles …

California Medfly and Oriental Fruit Fly Updates
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in September took quarantine actions regarding Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) and Oriental fruit fly (OFF) in California. MEDFLY On Sept. 15, APHIS and CDFA expanded the Santa Clara Medfly quarantine in Santa Clara County. […]
PIECES OF THE PAST — Field Crates: From Mill to Memory
By Brenda Eubanks Burnette The humble field crate has its roots in the practical demands of grove labor, long before citrus became a branded commodity. Often confused with the crate developed in 1875 by E.B. Bean that was used to ship citrus, and which featured colorful citrus crate labels, the field crate’s origin is less […]

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