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Cooler weather is one of the many seasonal changes that changes what needs to happen in our gardens. Regardless, there are always plenty of se…
Throughout the year, vegetable gardens can provide fresh produce. As warm season vegetables finish their season, cool season vegetables are ge…
Throughout the year, vegetable gardens can provide fresh produce. As warm season vegetables finish their season, cool season vegetables are ge…
Colorful bloom can get scarce during late summer, and autumn. However, there are quite a few plants that are pleased to bloom significantly la…
“Another month of summer remains.” is the same as “It will be autumn in only a month.” Seasonal changes necessitate different seasonal chores …
More seed and plants are available by mail order now than ever. Most are what they should be. With some, there is room for error. A few are do…
What lives as a houseplant here lives in the wild somewhere else. Natural tolerance of forest shade or desert aridity are advantages in domest…
Mulch compensates for the unnatural removal of organic matter that plants naturally shed. It retains moisture, insulates the soil, and inhibit…
Ground cover plants can exclude weeds, contain dust, and inhibit surface erosion. They will essentially do whatever mulch does, but with more …
With so many flowers blooming through summer, it eventually becomes necessary to deadhead some that may otherwise waste useful resources as th…
Floral fragrance is intended to appeal to pollinators, so diminishes a need for appealing floral color. Consequently, fragrant flowers general…
Toxic plants, although rarely dangerous, are a potential safety hazard to be aware of in home gardens, especially where there are young childr…
Minimal humidity, which makes warm weather a bit more tolerable here, is not so appealing to tropical, subtropical or understory plants that c…
Perennial plants live longer than annual plants. With a bit of grooming, several are indefinitely sustainable, as they systematically regenera…
Cal Poly athletics are in full Fall form. Find out more about the games, matches and tournaments that Mustang athletes will be competing in this week and weekend with these briefs provided by the Cal Poly Athletics department.
It was not difficult to find a full slate of worthy candidates for the Player of the Week contest.
Graciliano Sanchez helped the Bulldogs to wins over West LA and Bakersfield last week. She finished the week with two goals, an assist and six shots on goal.
The Allan Hancock College football program earned its first win in program history over Cerritos College at home on Saturday afternoon with a …
Bloom gets too much credit. Variegation and colorful foliage also contribute color to the garden. Some plants provide colorful bloom, with col…
Roots generally dislike confinement. Some are merely more tolerant of it than others. Most prefer to disperse freely and uninhibited by contai…
Too many plants that crave more specialized pruning are disfigured and deprived of their bloom and foliar texture by inappropriate and unneces…
Bigger modern homes on smaller modern parcels are not designed to exploit free sunlight. Nor do they leave must space available for classic bi…
As the terminology suggests, a ‘layer’ is a stem that develops roots where it lays on the ground. Intentional layering is a practical method o…
Trees that grow so vigorously that they can not support their own weight can demonstrate spontaneous limb failure during the calmest of warm s…
Tony Tomeo: Wildflowers are not what they were centuries ago. California poppies and lupines must compete with exotic species. Exotic wildflow…
Tony Tomeo: Lawn weeds, whether annual, biennial or perennial, are more challenging than weeds in open ground. Some ultimately integrate into …
Tony Tomeo: Nomenclature was intended to standardize and simplify classification and identification of plants, but has somehow gotten complica…
Tony Tomeo: Deadheading eliminates unappealing carcasses of deteriorating blooms, conserves resources, promotes subsequent bloom, and inhibits…
Tony Tomeo: Springtime is party time for the various vermin who have been laying low and perhaps quietly expanding their now voracious familie…
Tony Tomeo: Many cultivars of California native plants are very different from those that live in the wild. Furthermore, some are not as regio…
Tony Tomeo: Warm season vegetables that are now returning to the garden can benefit from garden rotation in order to avoid soil that was deple…
Tony Tomeo: Cool season vegetables that were productive through autumn and winter will now relinquish their garden space to warm season vegeta…
