CRFG - Santa Clara Valley

As expressed in the title of the prior posting, I am feeling diversity is of key importance! I have been encouraged by recent articles and

I remain very interested in the idea of diverse plantings in our orchards and gardens. Reading research about the benefits of flowers in orchard systems

Cork spot and bitter pit on my apples (a sign of insufficient calcium) has led me down the path of exploring calcium and micronutrient deficiencies.

It has been a long time since I was in school, but I still made an attempt at reading a textbook on fruit tree physiology

I listened to some interesting podcasts recently, with soil scientists Dr. Christine Jones, and Nicole Masters discussing microbial interactions in the soil: Diversity is the

In Santa Clara county, and in most of California, our past winter season was unusually wet. Who knows for sure what this coming winter will

Santa Clara CRFG held an in-person meeting on September 9; our first meeting at Emma Prusch park in the several years of Covid limitations! And

File this note under something I am thinking about and hope you will too… When I first started growing a garden, I figured that if

Locally grown blueberries are a delight, and depending on the varieties planted, can provide a harvest over a long season. At our home in Sunnyvale,

So You Have Peach Leaf Curl (PLC) . . . many CRFG chapter members reported great signs of there being no peach leaf curl (PLC), until