Napa Master Gardener Column

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Bees love flowers. (Unsplash/k-mitch-hodge)
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Beeing Friendly.

August 7th, 2020
By Cynthia Kerson, UC Master Gardener of Napa County For the past few years, I've been researching beekeeping. Recently, I decided to simply supply the bees with food and to let them live where they naturally would.
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Tomato hornworm--the horns are on the rear end. (UC ANR)
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Summer's Voracious Eater.

July 31st, 2020
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County The tomato hornworm that so many gardeners detest has a beautiful future if we let it be. After a winter spent underground and when it is done with metamorphosis, it will become one of the loveliest and largest of the moth species.
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Brugmansia (Eugenio Cuppone Pixabay)
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Brugmansia, Angel's Trumpet.

July 24th, 2020
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County I was recently at the garden of one of my fellow Napa County Master Gardeners, Cindy Watter, and was amazed by her wonderful Brugmansias (Solanaceae) and their huge blooms.
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Compost basics (UC MG of Sonoma County)
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Compost, Powerful Soil Additive!

July 17th, 2020
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Napa County Master Gardeners had many compost classes planned for last spring. Then the shelter-in-place order came through.
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UC Master Gardeners of Napa County is 25 this year!
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Celebrating Master Gardeners!

July 10th, 2020
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County The UC Master Gardeners of Napa County turn 25 this year. It is hard to believe that Master Gardeners have been active in the county that long. Dean Donaldson was the county farm advisor in 1995.
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