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- How do I practice sustainable gardening? Including . . .
FIND YOUR LOCAL MASTER GARDENER
- Answers to frequently asked questions
- Planning your vegetable garden
- Preparing for planting
- Caring for your vegetable crops
- Harvesting & Storing
- Manage pests, diseases, and weeds of fruit trees, nuts, berries, & grapevines - UC IPM
- California Backyard Orchard
- Grapes
- Overview
- What are the sunlight, soil, and space requirements for a backyard vineyard?
- When would I use rootstocks?
- What varieties are best for my backyard?
- What do I need to know about growth and fruiting?
- How do I . . . .
- propagate new vines?
- provide structural support for the vines?
- plant and care for young vines?
- plant bare-root vines?
- plant potted vines?
- train the young vine during the first growing season?
- prune at the end of the first growing season?
- train the vine in its second season?
- dormant prune at the end of the second year? - Vines with Poor Vigor - Vines with Moderate Vigor - Vigorous Vines
- water and mulch the young vine?
- train and prune mature vines?
- manage the canopy and clusters in the spring?
- manage insects, diseases, weeds, and other pests and disorders?
- Berries
- Blackberries
- What cultivars are best for my home garden?
- What are the sunlight and soil requirements for home garden blackberries?
- What are the planting and spacing requirements for blackberries?
- What kind of trellis system do blackberries require?
- How should blackberries be trained and pruned?
- How should blackberries be watered and fertilized?
- How do I manage blackberry pests and disorders? - UC IPM
- Raspberries
- What cultivars are best for my home garden?
- What are the sunlight and soil requirements for home garden raspberries?
- What are the planting and spacing requirements for raspberries?
- What kind of trellis system do raspberries require?
- How should raspberries be trained and pruned?
- How should raspberries be watered and fertilized?
- How do I manage raspberry pests and disorders? - UC IPM
- Strawberries
- What cultivars are best for my home garden?
- What are the sunlight and soil requirements for home garden strawberries?
- What are the planting and spacing requirements for strawberries?
- What are runners?
- How should strawberries be watered and fertilized?
- When should I harvest my strawberries?
- How do I manage strawberry pests and disorders? - UC IPM
- Blueberries
- Can I grow blueberries in my area? I live in a warm climate.
- What cultivars are best for my home garden?
- What are the sunlight and soil requirements for home garden blueberries?
- What are the planting and spacing requirements for blueberries?
- Do my plants need a pollinator?
- How should I care for my blueberry plants?
- How should blueberries be watered and fertilized?
- Blackberries
LANDSCAPE TREES, SHIRUBS, & VINES
- Landscape Trees
- Shrubs & Perennial Vines
- Where could I plant a shrub or perennial vine?
- Choose a good location - UC IPM
- How do I choose the right shrub or vine for my location?
- Selecting a species
- Identifying a shrub or vine you don't recognize
- What do I need to know about planting a shrub or perennial vine?
- Preparing the site
- Planting properly
- How do I keep my shrub or perennial vine healthy and vigorous for many years?
- Watering
- Fertilizing
- Pruning
- How do I manage weeds, pests, and diseases?
- Where could I plant a shrub or perennial vine?
- Roses are Special
- Additional Links
- How do I . . .
- conserve water and manage water during a drought?
- choose or identify my turf species - including best species for shade, sun, water efficiency, and different California regions?
- plant a new lawn?
- care for a newly planted lawn?
- renovate an old lawn?
- mow my lawn properly?
- water my lawn?
- fertilize my lawn?
- remove thatch?
- handle soil compaction?
- diagnose a problem or manage a pest - including: insects; diseases; gophers, moles and other animals; damage from nutrient deficiencies and other abiotic causes?
- identify or manage weeds?
- How do I manage pests on my flowers?
- How do I manage pests on my trees & shrubs, including roses & other ornamentals?
- Roses - see Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines
- UC Arboreta
- The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden - UCLA
- The University and Jepson Herbaria - UC Berkeley
- UC Berkeley Campus Trees - UC Berkeley Tree Fund
- UC Blake Garden - located in Kensington
- UC Botanical Gardens of Berkeley - UC Berkeley
- UC Davis Arboretum
- UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Gardens
- UC Riverside Botanic Gardens
- UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
- How do I choose a suitable plant?
- What does my plant need?
- What about the container?
- Should I prune it?
- How do I care for my potted gift or holiday plants?
- What's wrong with my plant?
- Toxic and Safe Plants - alpha version
- Know Your Plants - Safe or Poisonous? - in development