The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

The only materials and equipment you'll need for winter sowing are suitable containers, potting mix and seeds.Any food-safe ...

Elon Musk has launched a hostile takeover bid to take control over the non-profit assets of OpenAI. Let's look into the ...

While a lush garden with showy blooms isn’t exactly in the cards in the coming weeks, one thing you can do is start ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

A new study has revealed the pivotal role of theanine, a unique amino acid, in the early growth and development of tea ...

Everything starts with a seed. Even that age-old debate about what came first, the chicken or the egg. The new life of a ...

Choose a seed starting mix, not garden soil for your growing media. Garden soil is heavy and may contain weed seeds or even diseases. Seed starting mix is sterile and formulated with milled peat moss, ...

This week's column covers spring planting preparation and a question about how often you really need to clean your garden ...

Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and ...

Left to their own accord, seeds would drop to the ground in late summer or autumn, survive winter, then germinate when the ...

Left to their own accord, seeds would drop to the ground in late summer or autumn, survive winter, then germinate when the soil and air temperatures are optimal. So why not mimic nature by creating ...