Got questions on summer gardening? Want to know more about the selection and care of trees? Wondering about your soil’s health? We’ve got you covered.
Explore Our Gardening Resource Collections to Help Your Garden Thrive.
We have information organized by big topics such as seasonal gardening, methods and techniques, trees, plant health and maintenance, plants and shrubs, and environmental factors. Under each big topic, we have subtopics; for instance, under “Plant Health and Maintenance” we have diseases, pests, bugs and insects, invasive species, weeds, soil health and fertilizing, and watering.
Why Collections? To Make Our Gardening Resources More Available and Useful to Home Gardeners
The Alameda County Help Desk of UC Master Gardeners has been writing blogs since 2021 and now has over 60 blogs. The blogs have been available in chronological order, but now we have organized them into collection topics to make them more useful to the home gardeners. For instance, you can now click on “Summer Gardening in Alameda County” and find all the blogs we have written about summer topics. These summer gardening articles cover how to identify and manage summer pests, especially in our vegetable gardens. Here are practical ideas of how to water to fit the varied microclimates of Alameda County.
What Is Covered in the Gardening Resource Collections?
The topics of our blogs have been wide-ranging from plant health and maintenance to specific gardening techniques. We have blogs for specific diseases and ones for general care of plants and trees. They are now grouped in the general categories.
We are in the process of building out these resources, and most topics are linked, but more will be added as more blogs are written. Come take a look at what we have.
Here Are the Main Collection Topics.
Seasonal Gardening Information: activities or information relevant to a particular season, including soil preparation, planting, maintenance and pest management.
Check out one of our current “seasonal” collection items, Summer Gardening in Alameda County.
Gardening Methods and Techniques: how-to’s on growing vegetables, especially tomatoes; container gardening; sustainable gardening, with topics such as cover crops, mulches, and drip irrigation; and specific garden skills.
Check out one of our current methods and techniques collection items: Gardening Skills.
Plants and Shrubs: information on California natives, flowers and flowering shrubs, and succulents.
Check out one of our current plant and shrubs collection items: Flowers and flowering shrubs.
Trees: information on selection of street trees or fruit trees, information on care of trees and managing pests and diseases of trees in Alameda County.
Check out one of our current “trees” collection items , Tree care.
Plant Health and Maintenance: information on diseases, pests, bugs and insects, invasive species and weeds, soil health and fertilizing, and watering.
Check out one of our current “plant health and maintenance” collection items, Soil Health and Fertilizing which includes soil testing information and a soil testing lab list.
Environmental Factors: information on drought, gardening in changing climate, and wildlife.
Check out one of our current environment factors collection items: Gardening in a Changing Climate.
Where to Find Our Gardening Resource Collection?
The Gardening Resource Collection is located on the Website of the UC Master Gardener Program of Alameda County under the Gardening Resources
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