Moving to paradise? (Sacramento/foothills)
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Comments (11)That is "Tamalpais Homestead Tea," a Tea-or-Old-HT collected in the Mt. Tam area of Mill Valley. Pretty delicious, I think. Kippy -- 18 April is a little early for most of the roses up in the Sierra Foothills. Late May might be more like it. Maybe even very early June -- depending upon the weather. But other lowland roses would be blooming, and the Heritage could be pretty spectacular then. Here's what it looked like in the Heritage, the day after the Cemetery's Open Garden. Jeri...See MoreWhere is your fantasy place to move for gardening?
Comments (44)One of the reasons I moved from San Jose CA to Phoenix was to reduce my gardening addiction. It was out of control. I've lived in Upstate NY, Germany, Pensacola FL, Denton (Dallas) TX, Mt Shasta CA, San Jose CA, Shemya AK and Phoenix. So far San Jose has been my fav gardening spot. Week or so of frost danger each year and lots of sun, similar to Phoenix. I can't think of anything I planted that didn't do well and I tried pretty much everything I could get my hands on. Vegetables were great. Soil was clay, but I've never lived anywhere where people didn't complain about the soil. Soil can be fixed pretty easy imo. I've been in the Phoenix area for 10 years this month. Just now starting to get serious about gardening again. Threw out my Sunset Western Gardening book long ago and stopped watching gardening show because they just don't apply. I've spent the last 10 years looking at other people's gardens and trying different plants in different areas to learn how they react. It's like being on a different planet. Picking a fantasy place to garden is tricky. Isn't it partly the challenge that makes this fun? Phoenix has the appeal that growing many plants requires more skill than San Jose. But San Jose remains my fav gardening location....See MoreZone 9 Sierra Foothills what veggies?
Comments (3)Hi Janna - I am not quite in the foothills - IIRC you are in El Do hills? So you may get some cooler weather than me here in Fair Oaks. I just put in tomato seeds into starter boxes last weekend (3 types -roma, early girl and ?better boy). The seeds are in the garage next to a window that gets AM sun. Probably won't put them into the ground for about 3-4 weeks. Hopefully the last chance of frost will be mid-April, but last year we had a hail storm in May. Early girl was fabulous last year - first to produce and had tons of fruit. Had a bunch of romas as well and made a few batches of canned tomato sauce. Last year I had good luck with eggplant, corn, zucchini, cucumbers and green beans. Melons did okay. Didn't have good luck with peppers. Last year was the first year of veggie gardening for me here where it gets hot - I recently moved up from coastal So Cal. Sunset magazine has some pictures this month on using trellises with melons and squash to reduce the amount of space that they take up in the garden bed. By going vertical you use up less garden space. I plan on trying that this year with my melons and squash if I can find an appropriate trellis that does not cost too much. Good luck. Janelle...See MoreMoving to SoCal from NY. Help me find a town.
Comments (16)I live in Long Beach. We do get coastal breezes. But because of our proximity to Palos Verdes Peninsula, the large "hill" blocks the northwesterly sea breezes, so many times Long Beach can reach into the 90s in the summer while south in Huntington Beach or north in Redondo Beach, the temps will be in the 70s. But for the most part, temps keep moderate year round. I'm luck to have a large yard and big enough for several large greenhouses. If do prefer the coast. San Diego county is beautiful. Take a drive down to Quail Botanical Gardens in Northern San Diego county. Vista is nice. Capistrano is nice too. The O.C. is nice, but you will find a lot of track homes. Large homes, yes, but not very big yards. Fullerton is nice. The old part of the city. But it does get warm in the summer. Not too bad. If you go north, try Ventura County. Ventura or Carpinteria. Forget Santa Barbara or Goleta unless you have big bucks. The housing market has slumped. But not to a point where you can buy a house along the coast for less than a million. (Though you will find some nice homes in the $800K) Hard hit areas where homes have been foreclosed will be the outlying suburbs (tract homes) in Corona, Riverside and much of Inland Empire where many new homes were defaulted on. I for one hate these types of neighborhoods. Cookie cutter homes (large) but no yard. And basically but up against near desert. I would avoid Porter Ranch and Santa Clarita. Right now the area is ablaze. Planned neighborhoods, fancy tract homes, and small yards. But again, fire hazard areas. Also we have a bad drought, so you will be limited in watering. And if you do choose to live in a dry area, well, you will have to change your plantings to reflect more native plants, grasses, and cacti. San Bernardino County is up in the foothills. The base of the mountain. Fallbrook is nice, but gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Good for fruit that need winter chill. Again, if you want to grow more exotics, more tropicals, then you need to move to the coast. Mornings will have marine overcast. Which is nice. And will burn away to sunny, mild days. You will have more micro-climates too. Here in Long Beach, I grow mainly orchids. But also pineapple, plumeria and hawaiian tea bushes....See Morehoovb zone 9 sunset 23
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