California Gardening: Anyone Recognize this?, 1 by quiltygirl

quiltygirl wrote:
Ditto here as to where my veggies and fruits reside, but we only have dirt, so no biggie with lawn. Soils, our weather is not much different than yours. I remember when I lived in Santa Barbara and went with my girlfriend to visit the school she was going to in Sacramento after graduation. It was July. It was over 100 degrees. I thought I would die. Now I live in a place like that, lol. We were so spoiled in SB! I wnet to weather.com and compared Sacto to here and you are cooler. Daytime, all year. At night, all year, we are cooler. The same goes for record highs and lows. And you get more rain. Kingman, AZ surprised me when I was comparing their weather to ours when a DG'r moved there. They are cooler also.

Here is a photo of the front left side of our house too, taken July, last summer. Last year veggies were in straw bales. To the right of the picture you can see one side of the "U" shape. Those are tomatoes you can see. That photo was before the horses were out roaming in Dec. and ate the palm trees down to the trunk. They are just now starting to get their first fronds. The compost pile is straight back near the corner, where to 'tators are growing.