Advice to Grow By ... Ask Us!

The UC Master Gardener Program designed the California Garden Web to serve as a portal to organize and extend the University of California's vast collection of research-based information about gardening to the public. The California Garden Web focuses on sustainable gardening practices and uses a question and answer format to present solutions.

The blog below highlights gardening issues pertaining to the season.

Study offers insights on reducing nitrate contamination from groundwater recharge

Added March 22, 2023

Light irrigation before flooding stimulates microbes to remove nitrates from soil With California enduring record-breaking rain and snow and Gov. Gavin Newsom recently easing restrictions on groundwater recharge, interest in “managed aquifer...
Project Learning Tree: Shaping the future of California forests

Added March 21, 2023

On this International Day of Forests, we at UC Cooperative Extension Forest Research and Outreach invite you to celebrate the future of California's trees with us. Considering the recent news coverage regarding tree mortality in California, we want to...

'Undescribed Species' Discovered at the Bohart Museum

Added March 22, 2023

"Spiders have been around for 400 million years and they are an incredibly diverse group with more than 50,000 species described with probably another 200,000 remaining to yet be...