The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

The temperatures in February this year remained all time high, around 13.7°C above normal, which triggered premature blooming in almond and apple trees weeks ahead of schedule.

Join us for these great gardening talks and get your questions answered afterward. Talks will be held outdoors on our parcel. Most will last about 45 minutes. Use our free Plant Daycare for your ...

Next time you enjoy a juicy pomegranate, save some seeds to grow your own tree.

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. Soon the blooms would need spraying, and he would feed all 105 acres with the ...

Apples, plums, and other fruit trees don’t need as much fertilizer as fast-growing vegetables that complete their entire lifecycle in a single season. However, fruit trees that are growing slowly or ...

The ground has thawed and is being seeded, and fruit trees are budding in the Shuswap region. Just off Highway 1, at the top of the hill in Salmon Arm, B.C., the DeMille orchard is more than a week ...

The late Robin Williams famously said, “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party.’” For gardeners, it’s easy to understand the sentiment — with bulbs bursting into bloom, flowering cherries and ...

Growing your own peaches is easier than it seems.

Fruit trees are wonderful, but they require a lot of space to thrive. If you're restricted to a patio or small back yard, consider citrus you can grow in a pot.

My azaleas are dying, one after the other. This has been going on for the past year. Is this a disease? Is there anything I ...

Let’s see if that continues this month as we head into spring gardening! March is the time to start your summer vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Started now, your seedlings will be ready to ...