California Gardening: Anyone Recognize this?, 1 by soilsandup

soilsandup wrote:
The summers are too hot here for any type of container gardening to be effective without having to water almost everyday in the height of summer. I have given up on them, except for a few potted plants that are on my front porch. Tomatoes need a lot of light to set fruit - that is probably one reason why your tomato that was underneath the tangerine tree never fruited. The best place in my house for vegetables is in my front side yard - so I finally got rid of the grass there, built a retaining wall, and that is going to be my main veggie bed. Here is the before photo.