Check Your Voter Registration Status Here

Not sure you are registered to vote?  You can use double check your voter registration status, and find your polling location by visiting this link: http://canivote.org/

If you won’t be able to vote on Tuesday, November 6th, you can also register to be an absentee voter. In that case, you would receive an absentee ballot about three weeks prior to the election to return to your local board of elections by Election Day. 

To learn about the candidates, you can visit: http://votesmart.org/officials#.UFykQo0ia0c

Making Way for Cool Annuals

Summer annuals need to come out of garden to make way for cool season annuals

By Tony Tomeo

Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

Posted:   09/17/2012 07:37:42 PM PDT

Here in the mild climates on the West Coast, the difficulty of getting new cool- season annuals into the garden to bloom through autumn and winter is not selecting, procuring and installing the new annuals; it is the removal of the warm-season annuals while they are still blooming and looking so good. Knowing that planting new annuals sooner than later will get them an earlier start is not always much consolation....

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Reduce Your Water Bill By Using This Watering Schedule

According to this website, most landscapes are over-watered by as much as 50%.  You may be able to reduce your water bill by following this watering schedule: http://www.contracosta.watersavingplants.com/WateringTips/HTML/index.html.

Please Note: This irrigation guide is tailored to clay and loam soil, and weather conditions in Contra Costa County, California.