The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

Rohrer Seeds has sent seed catalogs from its Smoketown headquarters for more than a century. The 2025 catalog has cover crops like clover plus onion sets and corn, all similar to the ones sold long ...

Finally, we can start planning our indoor seed-starting efforts. I usually plant tender annual seedlings outside around May 15. Your seed packet will tell you how many weeks before that ...

A gardener may find it hard to predict weediness, especially when looking at an immature plant confined to a container at a ...

Planting in raised beds is popular because the container is basically a large box supported by four legs or sits on the ...

Her piece in the exhibit, “Chultún El Semillero” is about migration, of a sort. It honors the ancient Maya people who lived ...

Believe it or not, it’s already time to plant vegetables like onions, leeks, and celery, as well as a variety of flowers.

So, some might say that understanding pollination is one of the most important things we can understand about our gardens, ...

Beginning Tuesday, Cherokee Nation will begin taking applications for a limited supply of heirloom seeds. The project allows ...

Choose a seed starting mix, not garden soil for your growing media. Garden soil is heavy and may contain weed seeds or even diseases. Seed starting mix is sterile and formulated with milled peat moss, ...

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

Growing multiple plants together is a great way to maximize the number of roots in the soil and the biology that makes up the ...