From the Farm to Your Table  $21643   $7.00 

Have you ever wondered how to pick out fresh fruits and vegetables at the grocery store, but you had no idea what you were looking for? This colorful handbook will help you pick good-quality, healthy fruits and vegetables that are a vital part of your daily diet. You'll learn why there is more to fruit and vegetable quality than meets the eye and how to handle your fresh fruits and vegetables at home to maintain their quality and safety.

You'll also learn how growing and harvesting factors can effect quality and the effect of growing locations, produce handling methods, and the number of steps between production and retail markets.

Handy tables show you the steps between the field and your table, which fruits and vegetables should be stored in the refrigerator and which should be stored on the counter, what to look for when selecting produce at the market.

Lawn and Residential Landscape Pest Control:  A Guide for Maintenance Gardeners   #3510  $20.00

This book was written to help maintenance gardeners who mow lawns and maintain yards use pesticides safely and study for the Department of Pesticide Regulations's (DPR) new maintenance gardener pest control tests. Home gardeners and others who want to control pests in their landscapes can also benefit from the information contained in this book.

Using this book you'll learn:  The rules and laws that apply to pesticides, how to identify pests, how to tell helpful insects from harmful insects, how to be safe when you use pesticides, how to read labels, how to prevent accidents, how to handle emergencies and safety and training for your employees.

Contains 250 photographs, 104 drawings and 22 tables to help you understand the ideas presented in the book.

Watersheds, Groundwater and Drinking Water  #3497  $40.00

This new guide will help resource managers, planners, and other decision makers better understand and assess water supplies and to define and manage protection areas for water sources. Environmental scientists, water technicians, educators, students, and other interested in water resources will also find the book useful. The chapters in Part 1 cover such fundamentals as watershed hydrology, groundwater hydrology, water quality, and water contamination. Chapters in Part describe tools and background information that are helpful when assessing and protecting individual water sources.

The Home Orchard  #3485  $25.00

This book was developed especially for use by backyard orchardists, rare fruit growers, and small-scale growers. It offers a fairly comprehansive look at "standard" growing methods, as well as some unique practices that enthusiasts have develped in recent years, some of which are not practical for the commercial grower.

Irrigated Pasture Production in the Central Valley of CA  #21628  $12.00

Irrigated pastures, a mixture of perennial grasses and legumes, can be grown successfully in most areas of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. This new guide is a step-by-step guide to establishing and maintaining irrigated pastures. Using this publication you'll learn how to plan in advance for an irrigated pasture, select plant species, and prepare the seedbed. You'll also learn about the special fertilization, weed control, and irrigation issues present with irrigated pastures. Also included are chapters on hay making, forage and grazing management, leases, and grazing economics.

 California Master Gardener Handbook - UC Publication #3382   $30.00

This is the definitive guide to gardening in California. Chapters cover topics including soil, fertilizer, and water management; plant propagation; plant physiology; weeds and pests; and home vegetable gardening. Chapters also include information on specific garden crops including grapes, berries, temperate fruits and nuts, citrus and avocados. These crop chapters provide helpful information on selecting varieties, planting, growth cycles, pruning, irrigation, and harvesting. Also included is information on lawns, woody landscape plants, landscape design, and developing problem-solving skills.

Nutritional composition information is provided for most of the edible crops covered in the handbook along with background information on how the nutritional information was derived and how to interpret it. The Master Gardener Handbook also contains an appendix of useful conversions for many units of measure used in the handbook or in caring for crops, and a 12-page glossary of terms.

Pests of the Garden and Small Farms - #3332   $35.00 

This convenient handbook for home gardeners and small-scale farmers covers insects, mites, plant diseases, nematodes, and weeds of fruit and nut trees and vegetables. Crop-by-crop symptom identification tables guide you quickly to the information you need.

Natural Enemies Handbook - #3386   $35.00

This award-winning reference contains a pest and natural enemy "Quick Guide" to help you easily match natural enemies with specific pests in your crop or landscape.

Healthy Roses - #21589    $10.00

Sound advise on how to adapt Integrated Pest Management practices to roses in the home garden.

Pests of Landscape Trees & Shrubs - #3359 $42.00

A perennial bestseller, this easy-to-use reference emphasizes environmentally safe, less-toxic, IPM methods for controlling hundreds of insects, mites, weeds, plant diseases, nematodes, and other sources of damage. Invaluable "Pest Tables" help diagnose causes of damage.

These publication are available at the University of California Cooperative Extension Office located at 328 S. Madera Avenue, Madera, CA. For more information contact us at 675-7879.