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Backyard Gardener

Offers gardening tips and other horticultural information

Issues Articles Type Date Added
Summer 2012

So, You Wanna Be a Farmer?; Full Sun or Part Shade; Beasts Be Gone!; Cultivating Community in Local Gardens; To Market, To Market; Master Gardener Help Line; Hot Off the Press; Upcoming Workshops; Eastern Sierra Gardening Info; Garden Tips.

PDF 7/16/12
Spring 2012

In This Issue: Pesky Pests; The Mystery of Mulch; Accident Corner; Keeping a Garden Journal; Winter Gardening Checklist for the Eastern Sierra; IMACA CSA; Growing Soil in Southern Inyo; News and Notes; We're on Facebook!

PDF 3/16/12
Fall 2011 PDF 9/13/11
Spring 2011

Pumpkin Patch, Garden Space is Where You Find It, Eye Candy for Enthusiastic Gardeners, Spring & Fall Freeze Possibilities, Ants, Digging for Green!, Want to Grow Berries? and Food Safely Prepared

PDF 5/3/11
Winter 2011 Time to Think About Pruning Roses Get into Viticulture! Gardening for Backyard Birds in Winter Why Winter Watering? Dormant Sprays Can Help Protect Trees Is it Peach Leaf Curl? Weather, Borers and Bark Beetles PDF 1/27/11
Summer 2010 First class of UCCE Master Gardeners of Inyo & Mono Counties graduate; Selecting plants for ponds & streams; Promoting worms in your gardens; & Visiting the China Ranch Date Farm. PDF 9/30/10
Spring 2009 Solarize to Control Garden Pests; The Garden at Hans Resort; Hot off the Press -- what's new on line?; Salt Tolerance of Vegetable Crops; & Catalogues to Consider when Planting Your Garden PDF 9/30/10
Fall 2007 PDF 8/14/08
June 2007 PDF 8/13/09
March 2007 PDF 8/14/08
Fall 2003 Bark Beetles Dormant Spraying of Fruit Trees in the Garden PUB 2/7/10
January 2003 Mild Winter Temperatures and Foolhardy Bulbs Hardening Plants Before Transplanting Mulches Growing Tree Fruit at Home in the Eastern Sierra General Winter/Spring Fruit Tree Maintenance PDF 2/7/10
February 2004 High Desert Gardening Workshop March 19 & 20 Weed Management in Lawns PDF 6/28/11