In this issue:

• Fertilizing Your Trees
• Unusual Edible: Chocolate Vine
• Cover Cropping in Foothill Gardens
• Hotline FAQs: Soil for Raised Vegetable Beds
• All-Star: Marina Madrone
• Water-Wise Gardening
• Nevada County Demonstration Garden News
• 2025 Gardening Guide and Calendar Hot Off the Press!
• Insect Bytes: Meet the Spotted Lanternfly
• BotLat: Red Flag Color
• Diagnosing Why a Plant Fails
• Video Tour of The Estes Garden
• Placer County Demonstration Garden News
• Creating a Pumpkin Succulent Centerpiece
• Events Calendar