by Tracy Bogard | May 14, 2024 | Classes and Workshops, Experiences, Information, Plant Pests
Placitas Wildflower Walk – Field Trip by Brandt Magic Sharon Walsh, Master Gardener and Botanist, recently led a Wildflower Walk in the Placitas Open Space. 16 Master Gardener interns and veterans were there. This is the second year for this successful event....
by Tracy Bogard | Apr 13, 2024 | Classes and Workshops, Experiences, Information, Plant Pests
Museum of Southwestern Biology Field Trip by Brandt Magic For the second year in a row, the Museum of Southwestern Biology at UNM (http://msb.unm.edu/ ) welcomed Sandoval Extension Master Gardener interns to view their world-class insect collection. The museum’s...
by Tracy Bogard | Aug 7, 2023 | Information, Plant Pests, Weeds
ALERT! Tomato Growers: Desert Broomrape kills your tomato plants Seed2Need[1] has encountered a parasitic weed killing the garden’s tomato plants. The weed was identified as a species of Broomrape – most likely Desert Broomrape – with the help of the...
by scmgadmin | Dec 22, 2021 | Food, Information, Plant Pests, Seeds
In New Mexico, Money Grows on Trees Excerpted from EATER NEWS – 6 December  – Author – Karen Fischer Outside of Gallup NM, along Highway 602, is what is locally known as the Checkerboard. Parcels of land in the Checkerboard are, as the name might imply, mixed —...
by Tracy Bogard | Aug 13, 2020 | Plant Pests, Tips & Ideas
Learning From Squash Bugs by Linda Walsh – SEMG 2018  If There’s Squash Bugs in Heaven I Ain’t Staying is the title of Stacia Spragg-Baude’s biography of Evelyn Curtis Losack, woman farmer and water rights activist from Corrales. With all there is to talk about...
by scmgadmin | May 20, 2020 | Plant Pests
Moth Invasion May 2020 From Dr. Amanda Skidmore, IPM Specialist Most of the moths we are seeing are Noctuidae, possibly cut worm species. These moths are making the news in the ABQ area. It looks like Jason Schaller (ABQ BioPark entomologist) is on top of it....
