When homeowners spot a small animal scurrying across the kitchen floor or digging in the yard, they may wonder if they have a problem with voles or mice. Both of these rodents are five to eight inches long and have gray or brown fur; voles are stockier than mice with shorter tails, larger eyes, and […]
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Spring is here and so are the weeds! Are you seeing grasses, dandelions, bindweed, and even wild blackberry popping up in your lawn, flower beds, vegetable gardens, or other exposed spaces? Even in teeny spaces between bricks on your patio? What’s a gardener to do with such a bounty of weeds? The most effective method
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It’s National Spinach Day and that crop of delicious greens you’ve been nurturing might disappear overnight. The culprit? Likely snails and slugs; they love to eat plants with tender foliage and fruit. Favorites include seedlings and plants with succulent foliage; they seriously damage many vegetable and flowering plants. These mollusks (related to the octopus!) move
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It’s National Animal Poison Prevention Week. You may not think twice about it since you don’t use any poisons. Or do you? Spray ant killer in the kitchen when you see ants? Feed your roses with an All In One product that kills aphids while fertilizing the plant? Put out bait to knock out those
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Spring is nearly here, and flowers are blooming – bulbs, fruit trees, vines and more. National Plant a Flower Day, March 12, is a good time to get some plants in the ground, and especially those that can attract and support beneficial insects in the yard. Planting a Healthy Garden includes types of plants to
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Saturday, March 13, 2021, 10 – 11 a.m. Did you know that 90% of the bugs we see in our gardens are actually good bugs? Encouraging beneficials is one of the best ways to effectively reduce the number of pests in your garden. Want to learn about the most important beneficials, what they do in
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Hard to think sometimes, that the things we may do or use in our yards can end up harming nature, including our precious water supply. It’s National Groundwater Awareness week, highlighting the importance of preserving and protecting groundwater resources for drinking, bathing, recreation, agriculture, medical uses, and much more. While Marin doesn’t rely on groundwater
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Visions of plump, juicy peaches dance in your head as you tend your fruit trees in the early days of spring; you’re already dreaming of peach pie, ice cream, or fruit plucked warm off the tree. But your daydreams might be squelched by seeing instead, blistered, bumpy, puckered, twisted leaves – not exactly what you’re
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Your image of weeds may be the dandelions growing in a lawn, the clover nudging your vegetables aside, or poison oak displaying its fall colors. Weeds can be any plant type – tree, shrub, vine, grass, perennial, or annual plants. Marin has some BIG weed plants – blue eucalyptus and black acacia, Scotch broom and
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Saturday, February 27, 2021, 10 – 11 a.m. Think before you reach for that weed killer! Want to learn what you can do “now” to ensure fewer weeds all year long? And about organic, eco-friendly techniques for safe and effective weed management? Join us for the second program in our series, “Kick the Chemicals: Caring
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