By Bob Frey After a near record setting rainfall this winter, preparing for the upcoming fire season is not a high priority for most homeowners. However, with this abundance of rainfall we see the beautiful hillsides resplendent with green vegetation that will surely turn brown in the early fall. By June this vegetation will serve […]
By Judith Wolinsky The iconic black, orange and white monarch butterfly finds a welcome home in San Diego gardens. Besides being a beautiful addition to your garden, it’s an important pollinator. Creating a monarch garden habitat is easy, enjoyable and a fun multigenerational project. You will also be helping the monarch, whose numbers have been […]
By Rita Perwich Most gardeners today want to grow roses with less effort and without the use of pesticides and fungicides. For our own health and the well-being of our environment, we know we should adopt sustainable practices in our gardens, and so we have been demanding roses that are disease resistant, easy to […]
By DAWN STANDKE It all started with a drip drip drip off the patio roof. University of California (UC) Master Gardener Pam Kirpalani put a pan from the kitchen out to save the water from that drip. Soon the pan was full and she switched to catching the drip in clean trash cans. When those […]
