UC site maps out a month-by-month checklist on preventative measures and management techniques By Jodi Bay (This article originally appeared in the January 11, 2025 edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune) It’s the beginning of 2025 and the cusp of another year of gardening. Gardening has seasons where plants grow best, flowers bloom, vegetables provide […]
By Suzanne Mullins Have a garden, landscape, or botanical question ? Contact the San Diego County Master Gardeners Hotline. Their answers are research-based, free, and available 24/7. Anyone can submit a question by phone (858 822 6910) or by email, using this link: Hotline – Master Gardener Association of San Diego County. Typical queries […]
BY LEO McGUIRE This time of year, I often receive the question on the Hot Line, “My citrus leaves are yellow, do I have HLB, will my tree die?” This question really scares me. HLB is the easy way to say Huanglongbing, a bacterial disease also known as citrus greening. There is no simple way […]
One of our recent Hotline questions was: Should I clean up the dropped leaves in the yard now to make it “nice and clean” for the new year/season? Answer: I couldn’t help but remember my Grandmother urging me always to maintain cleanliness…”If you don’t wash your ears every day, watermelons will grow out of them!” […]
Compiled by Suzanne Mullins Master Gardener Class of 2012 If you garden anywhere in San Diego County, you are witnessing remarkable, albeit unusual, growth throughout your garden. Now is the time to take a good look at your mini jungle and decide what has survived the months of drenching rain. The rains have increased the […]
