Can an inexperienced gardener earn money from gardening?
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Comments (25)LaHonda area is a gorgeous setting to live in, and on maps may appear as a shorter commute to Stanford, but the elevation and twisting roads and storms and fallen trees and mudslides can all make the regular commute a daily grind if you don't enjoy driving very twisty roads. It is also alot harder to find that great California winter sun while living in a redwood forest, which is dark, wet and cold all winter, while it can be quite pleasant in Palo Alto. One of the south peninsula area has any areas that could be considered reasonable rents or house prices compared to South Carolina, but East Palo Alto is an up and coming area that will only continue to improve over time, and is conveniently close. Crime and unemployment and a more racially mixed dynamic that is still somewhat weighted towards less Anglo prevails there, but there are lots of new homes and remodeling going on there, and it is gentrifying. If you want to be close to Stanford and keep your home purchase price as low as possible, it is really the only alternative. Also be warned that the further north you get away from Stanford, the less summery weather you will get. I grew up in nearby Burlingame, abit further north, and the summers are alot cooler there than in Menlo Park/Palo Alto. If you like cooler nights,(regular fog almost every evening off the coast cools things down), it is fine; but if you like wearing shorts and sandals and hanging out in the backyard after dark, you won't be doing this much if you live north of Redwood City, but the days are still very nice. If you move as far north as San Bruno/South San Francisco/Daly City/Pacifica, you may also be entering the daytime fog zone, and you should really prefer it cooler rather than hot summery. Alot of people who work in Silicone Valley/Palo Alto area also do commute from the East Bay, which is a long commute, but housing prices are still much more reasonable in Alameda County. I myself live in the alternative university town of Berkeley, after having grown up on the peninsula. I like it because it is much more diverse both racially and economically, as well as being closer to San Francisco for entertainment and employment. I do know people who commute from Berkeley/Alameda all the way down to Palo Alto/Mountain View for work, but I don't particularly recommend it, as it would be more than an hour each way with very heavy traffic during commute hours. Good luck with your decision, but get used to spending alot more money on housing, which will probably mean some lifestyle changes to make the budgeting work....See MoreHome Gardening is Worth the Effort and Money?
Comments (25)here are some more news why we should be gardening (organic as much as possible)and produce own vegetable at least! Recently, one of my colleague who has been diagnosed with colon cancer. He not have any bad habits, no smoking, no alcohol, very health cautious...but stuck by dread evil. By god grace he is out of danger now due to right time detection and diagnosis. While resting in hospital beds, he looked back his life style, food habits, family history, etc... he concluded that food was one of the main culprit. He wrote me five page long story about the his cancer and aftermaths...to cut the story short, I just copy/pasting some of his points on Why does one get cancer: Causes of cancer; -Environment we live in (e.g., breathing polluted air); -Genetically modified food (e.g., nearly 80% of all food sold in US super markets are genetically modified like your tomatoes, apples); -Food processing and storage (e.g., injecting chicken with antibiotics to "preserve" them; preservatives in all those tin\can food; manicured apples!!); -Polluted water (e.g., dissolved carcinogens in water from heavy industries that may never be filtered out) ...and one can go on... Another story is Parkinson's vs. Pesticides: I just come to know from Dorothy, Rotenone, a pesticide used in home gardens/farms seems to be causative factor for Parkinson's diseases... He is our own family story...My mother-in-law, but call her a mother, she is nice lady, is also suffering with Parkinson's disease.. she used to consume lot of raw vegetables/salads (of course from market) to keep in good health... but that tuned out be bad. I too guess her PD was due to lot of harsh chemical in the vegetables. The use of pesticides in food production becoming one of the biggest threat to health, mankind and nature. My mother has been diagnosed with PD in 2007, she has been treated with many Allopathy, Homeopathic, Ayurveda, and Acupressure systems. but none of these practice/medicines has freed her from PD. Now she is doing yoga, meditation, drinking wheat grass juice in the morning, and also started using stationary bike. I read some time ago in science magazine that cycling/biking will help in brain cell stimulation and blood circulation to brain which may help patients to recover faster... mother tells she feeling little better... We should encourage more and more people to start gardening, growing their own food also bring awareness about the chemical in food. Encourage (pressurize) commercial growers to producing organic food....See More'Gardeners helping Gardeners a gesture from the Heart'.
Comments (19)Whew! I had no idea what you were going to say about the "rules". Jody, from the title I couldn't tell if you wanted us to do a "barn raising" type thing, or what. Like, were you going to say that everyone had to bring our shovels and hoes and come camp out at your place while we hand tilled an acre for one of your neighbors. Worse, you could have been requiring each of us to send a gallon of our best hard-earned compost off to some remote Siberian village. Postage would have been awful, not to mention the tears shed over mailing out black gold. Reading lists and sharing what I can spare is easy. No problem. Well, no problem as long as the first thing on everyone's list isn't a scoop of llama poo. I don't know if I'm ready to share that, yet. ;0)...See MoreInexperienced with gardening, need help with this Rhodo.
Comments (2)The rhododendron is leaning toward the light from the shaded area. It has dropped its leaves except from the parts in the sun. Best things you can do are: Carefully - so you don't damage the rhododendron roots - remove the grass that's growing right up to the trunk and create a mulched area with a four or five foot diameter. Cut out any dead branches. Pinch the tips of the growth emerging from the lower part of the trunk to encourage branching. I would be cautious about cutting back any of the main branches. Try one or two in inconspicuous places and see if they resprout. The new growth - if any - will, however, grow toward the light just like the old growth. If you really want leaves down to the ground, better to concentrate on the growth already emerging from the trunk. I do think this rhododendron is pretty attractive in its current tree form, but that's a matter of personal taste. The leaf spotting is a result of fungal infection. Not a dire threat to overall health and can be safely ignored....See Morerandy41_1
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