Where can I buy nectarines that are ACTUALLY ripe? (East SF Bay, CA)
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Comments (14)The best rootstock is Lovell. If you want more than one variety and you don't have a lot of space, I'd recommend you get a three-in-one or five-in-one peach. Those you can typically pre-order from Dave Wilson, and you'd want to do it now. Our nursery here in Santa Cruz doesn't charge extra, it's $19.99 no matter what, but the multiple grafted peaches are more. Citation is better if you want to plant several varieties together, they will stay small enough and not compete, but they will also use more water. I know, lots of choices, my personal recommendation would be to get a single variety peach on lovell, and then find someone from the CRFG who'd be willing to graft additional varieties onto your tree. Carla in Sacramento heard the same thing I did: Baby crawford is supposed to be one of the best, I was looking for that one last Winter, now I just plan on grafting it. Babock is not a good choice if you want something with a bit of a tang in it. Most white peaches are sweet and less acid. White nectarines have more acidity, and yellow peaches have yet more acidity, followed by yellow nectarines, and finally, red fleshed peaches which have the most acidity. Snow beauty peach is truly an amazing peach, it's much more flavored and sweeter and juicier than babock. Dave wilson says this about it: Snow Beauty White-fleshed taste test winner: one of the all time highest-scoring varieties in blind fruit tastings at Dave Wilson Nursery. Low acid, high sugar, tantalizing flavor. Large, very firm, attractive red skin. Harvest early to mid-July in Central California. Tested as 96.5GF330. Estimated chilling requirement 750-850 hours. Self-fruitful. Pat. No. 10175. (Zaiger)...See MoreNursery to buy mint plants in SF bay area
Comments (21)When one thinks about buying herbs in the supermarkets, you have to go to better grocery stores and I see these collections of herb in plastic containers. They cost about $5.99 each and you can tell they are all dried up and not fresh because no one buy this stuff. It's too expensive to sell. I don't why grocery stores have all this gourmet produce and it always rots and doesn't sell, so I guess they have to keep discarding it. It's such a waste. If they had 50 packages of mint, they may sell just one package and then all the rest is discarded. So, you can not get really fresh mint unless you grow it yourself....See MoreIn SF/Bay Area-where to see faucets and sinks
Comments (8)Here are some places we shopped. The next four places have a large selection to look at: DECORATIVE PLUMBING SUPPLY 1200 INDUSTRIAL ROAD #5 SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 Phone: 650-592-3337 FIXTURES & FAUCETS 800 WOODSIDE RD REDWOOD CITY, CA 94061 Phone: 650-361-1400 FIXTURES & FAUCETS 316 SO. ELDORADO SAN MATEO, CA 94401 Phone: 650-344-2828 PLUMBING N THINGS 1620 INDUSTRIAL WAY REDWOOD CITY, CA 94063 Phone: 650-363-7300 They have a few here: BAYSHORE SUPPLY 501-507 INDUSTRIAL ROAD SAN CARLOS, CA 94070 Phone: 650-596-8899 The following is a great showroom, with several kitchens set up where you can try different faucets and sinks. I don't remember the faucet brand(s). Atherton Culinary 249 Primrose Road Burlingame, CA 94010 Phone: 650-369-1794 Fax: 650-369-1705 They have some faucets and sinks on display here: ATHERTON APPLIANCE & KITCHEN 695 Veterans Boulevard Redwood City , CA 94063 Phone: (650) 369-1794 Fax: (650) 369-1705...See MoreSF Bay Area RE continues to rise
Comments (29)"Blaming the poor school results and poor quality of services to not collecting enough taxes is crazy." " In 2007, The New York Times reported the average property tax in California was .68 percent." No making such a statement from the wilds of NC is crazy. From folks that live there, the consensus is that Prop 13 is the victim of unintended consequences. California Schools went from among the best in the USA in the late 1970s to among the worst. The infrastructure went from one of the top rated to a situation that has become somewhat desperate. The fact of the matter is that 0.68% Property tax is unfair when the new purchaser pays 1.0% and the guy next door pays .34% for property identical in value. 1.0% is not an unreasonable tax rate for all to pay - higher in most areas - but 0.68% is not a reasonable base across all properties. You repeatedly apply your parochial experience in a Southrn State and generalize to apply it broad brush to rel estate practices, property taxes, weather impacts, etc, etc, etc. Read and learn from the folks above that have lived the actual experience. Denying the impact of a failure to collect adequate taxes on the quality schools shows a certain lack of knowledge of the real World. One of my favorite examples, and be careful this is a specific case. The Town of Lakehurst, NJ, in the 1980s was a very poor town. One nearly deserted Navy Base (Think Von Hindenburg Fire), lots of wooded and deserted farm lands, and a largely poor, minority population clustered in a "downtown" area. A huge Retirement Community (55+)called Leisure Knolls was constructed, including Single Family Detached, and high rise apartments. Pricey properties all and largely retired, wealthy owners. (Leisure is a developer with properties located all ovr the USA. NJ Schools are largely funded by Local Property Taxes, which is the case in many states. The problem in Lakehurst was the Tax Base was overwhelmingly comprised of older people that felt they had already paid for good (read expensive) schools while their Children were attending schools and darned if they'd pay for a ton of schooling for other people's children also. The tax base remained depressed, the schools got poorer and poorer. Finally the State of NJ stepped in and took over the Lakehurst Schools and funded them to higher minimum performance standard. My late parents were residents of Leisure Knoll. The same school situation existed in virtually every State in which I bought home. Shop around for jurisdictions that had seemingly good schools and inevitably you'd find a higher tax base - a meld of property values and tax rate. Essentially, locally you could group together and collect more taxes and fund better schools if so motivated. In both CA and Lakehurst in 1978 an later those jurisdictions acted to preclude this choice. In CA the Property Tax was mandated by Statewide Initiative. In Lakehurs the choice was precluded by annual voter mandate. Not blaming the poor school results and poor quality of services to not collecting enough taxes is crazy - particularly if basing that opinion on local NC experience....See MoreRelated Professionals
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