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Dig In: Garden checklist for week of July 21

Try to stay cool; relief is on its way

No zucchini? Grab a paintbrush

How to give bees a hand and pollinate squash, cucumber, melon and pumpkin flowers

What’s wrong with my tomatoes? Probably the heat

Triple-digit temperatures can affect pollination, tomato development

Tomato harvest looks like bumper crop

2023 was a great tomato year for gardeners, farmers who planted later

Bumper or bummer? Tomato crops affected by weather swings

Heat spikes dried out flowers or caused plants to abort fruit

Sacramento catches a break in hottest July on record

Weather roller-coaster continues; triple-digit temperatures return this weekend

Dig In: Garden checklist for week of July 2

Red-hot start could make July challenging

At the State Fair, a microcosm of growing issues

Dig In: Garden checklist for week of July 3

What’s wrong with my berries? Heat, drought and lack of bees

Good (but not 'mast') year for acorns

Give squash flowers a hand