Over the Fence: A Help Desk Blog for Alameda County
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It’s Time to Think About Your Winter Vegetable Garden – Planting Cool Weather Vegetables
When the temperature starts to dip from the high 90s, and you are still picking ripe tomatoes and zucchini nearly every day, fall and winter...
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Watering Landscape Trees and Shrubs: The Good and the Bad
The excessive heat days we have experienced in Northern California in 2024 may have caused us to look at our landscape trees and shrubs and notice...
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Summer Tomatoes - How to Manage Common Problems
Tomatoes are one of our most popular and best-loved garden plants, but they do have their issues, which vary depending on variety, climate, soil,...
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Caring for Your Summer Tomatoes
Tomatoes are one of our most popular and best-loved garden plants, but they do have their needs. Because a tomato crop can be so deliciously...
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8 Water Wise Tips That You Can Start Today
(Editor Note: This blog first appeared in August, 2021 - it has been slightly modified for our current heat wave in July 2024) This current...
Events & Garden Talks
| Event Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Garden Talk: Cover crops (Oakland) | 9/21/2024 |
| Cool Weather Gardening (Oakland) | 10/5/2024 |
| Ask a Master Gardener: 21st Annual Olive Festival (Freemont) | 10/6/2024 |
| Garden Talk: Native plant propagation (Livermore) | 10/12/2024 |
| Garden Talk: Fall and winter vegetables (Hayward) | 10/12/2024 |
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Advice to grow by. Just ask us!
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Click here: ASK THE HELP DESK! (a form will pop up to walk you through the process)
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Email us at acmg@ucanr.edu Please tell us:
- Your name, phone number, and city
- Problem description - if applicable: name of the plant, when the problem began, history of watering, fertilizing, pruning, pesticides, etc.
- Photographs of the problem, if possible.
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Phone us at (510) 670-5645. If we are not in the office, please leave your name, email, phone number and your problem description. Please speak slowly and clearly.
- Get walk-in help. Master Gardener volunteers are at 224 West Winton Avenue, Room 134, Hayward CA 94544. Hours are generally Wednesday 10am to noon and Thursday 11am to 1pm, but please call for appointment since hours may vary occasionally due to volunteer availability.