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Articles Featured in Past Newsletters

UC Master Gardeners use their skills and expertise to provide articles with research-based information and best practices.  If you are looking for quality information, check out some of our past articles listed below. 

Composting & Fertilizer

• Compost: A recipe for mudpies
• Start with Your Soil
• Yard Waste is Not Wasted
• Yard Waste is Not Wasted - Part Two

Food Gardening

• Edible Landscaping, part 1
• Edible Landscaping, part 2
• Growing Food in Tahoe - A Christmas Valley Family Garden
• Growing Food in Tahoe - Workshops: A Year in Review
• Let's Talk Herbs
• Onion Phenology Part 2: The Bermuda Onion
• Prepping for another Season of Growing Food in Tahoe -
• Select Vegetable Seeds: Check Days to Maturity
• Squash: In celebration of summer
• Vegetable Spotlight: Asparagus
• What is Phenology? -
• 2020 Growing Food in Tahoe Virtual Workshops

Garden & Landscaping 

• Building a Raised Bed
• Designing Your Garden
• Fall into Fall Lawn Care
• Nature scaping Plant Lists

Pest Management

• Animal Trapping
• Needle Miners in Tahoe Trees
• Needle Miner Turning Section of Tahoe Orange
• Q & A: Woodpeckers
• Who is Your Pest? Golden-Manteled Ground Squirrel or Chipmunk?

Tahoe Native Plants

• A Few of Our Favorite Natives
• Go Native - Mountain Spiraea
• Mahala Mat -Ceanothus prostatus
• Red Osier Dogwood - Cornus stolonifera
• Sulfur Flower, Buckwheat – Eriogonum umbellatum
• Tahoe Plants and Trees - White Bark Pine – Pinus albicaulis
• Tahoe Plants and Trees - Woods rose -Rosa woodsii
• Wooley Mullein – Verbascum thapsus
• Tahoe Plants and Trees - Sugar Pine

Flowers

• Enjoy Gesneriads!
• Floriography: Flower Symbolism
• Meaning and Symbolism of Flowers and Plants found at the Tallac Estates Part II
• Propagating Phalaenopsis cultivar – “Moth” orchid Orchidaceae
• Q and A on Deadheading
• Spring Blooming Bulbs – Planting, Growing, Dividing
• Amaryllis_poinsettia_cyclamen_OhMy!
• Would Valentine's Day exist without the Rose

Gardening with Others & Accessibility

• Gardening with Children
• How to Set Up a Monarch Waystation
• Tahoe School Wants to Grow Green

Pollinators

• Bugs are Incredible- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Plants for Pollinators

Other Topics of Interest

• A Gardener is Only as Sharp as his tools
• A gift for the gardener in your life: forcing paperwhite bulbs Narcissus tazetta
• Art in the Garden
• Books for the Garden Nerd
• Garden Tips: Tennis Ball Container Seedling Starter
• Master Gardener's Favorite Perennials
• Make a non-combustible zone the foundation of your firewise landscape
• Microclimates. Micro-worlds
• My Sleeping Garden Will Awake
• Q and A on Watering Trees
• Quaking Aspen
• Right Plant, Right Place
• The South Tahoe Garden Club: Fifty-Eight Years of Fun and Sun -
• The Cones That Almost Never Fall
• Tahoe Trees & Plants: Mountain Delphinium --Delphinium glaucum
• Vail’s EpicPromise gives back to the Tahoe City Demonstration Garden
• What's Bugging You?
• What to Do While Waiting for Spring: Read Some Garden Books!
• Winter Care for Your House Plants
• Winter Gardeners
• Winter Watering
• Winterizing Tools
• Winter Container
• Fireplace to Fertilizer