University of California Cooperative Extension
Frost can cause damage and loss to plants. Please see the resources below to help keep your plants healthy through the cold weather.
A Frost Primer
Protecting Subtropical Fruit Trees from Frost
Citrograph Frost Issue 2011
Recognizing freeze damaged citrus
Rehabilitation of freeze damaged citrus
Recognizing freeze damage in avocados
Frost protection for avocados
Rehabilitation of freeze damaged avocados
Ventura Blogs
Topics in Subtropics – Winter 2011
Posted 1/27/2012 -
A new addition of UC ANR’s Topics in Subtropics newsletter has posted to our website. This is a...
Cooperatives
Posted 1/26/2012 -
Cooperatives allow groups of people to accomplish more collectively than as individuals. This...
Free Gray Water Workshop
Posted 1/25/2012 -
Water that drains out of our washing machines, bathtubs and showers is graywater. Graywater can be...
Irrigation
Posted 1/24/2012 -
The 2011 UC Master Gardener Vegetable Demonstration Garden Project has recently finished. A...
All-star update
Posted 1/23/2012 -
Persistence and collaboration often make success possible. Ventura County 4-H All-Stars Savanna...
Other Blogs
Weed control strategies and yield response in a pepper crop (Capsicum annuum L.) mulched with hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) and oat (Avena sativa L.) residues
Posted 1/27/2012 -
Abstract: Organic mulches could be a part of a wide strategy of integrated weed management in...
National Summit on Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Posted 1/26/2012 -
Reposted from a recent WSSA press release on herbicide resistant weeds by the Weed Science Society...
Chemical Thinning of Olives
Posted 1/26/2012 -
The light 2011 olive crop may result in a heavy crop load in 2012. With the prospect of a heavy...
Dry Root Rot of Citrus
Posted 1/24/2012 -
Introduction
Dry Root Rot has menaced growers in Ventura County for many years. In the ‘50's and...
Roundup Ready Alfalfa: What growers who have grown the crop feel about the technology
Posted 1/22/2012 -
Roundup Ready (RR) alfalfa was the fifth glyphosate-tolerant crop to be commercialized in the...
