May 2022 San Francisco Garden Views
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Comments (13)The organic approach to killing fungus is to use ordinary corn meal at a rate of 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Use it once and follow up again 3 weeks later. You can usually find corn meal at a feed store. Your nearest feed store is not close. Usually urban areas still have down town feed stores because your county sheriff will have a mounted posse. Click here to find your nearest feed store. Call first to see if they have ordinary corn meal. There is another corn meal product that gets confused with the regular stuff. What you do not want is corn gluten meal. Another possibility to find ordinary corn meal is to find a Hispanic grocery store. They sell corn flour but sometimes it is adulterated with baking soda and baking powder to make tortillas. Get the plain corn flour in 25-pound sacks. When you apply corn meal, do the entire yard. You don't know where the fungus starts and stops. Corn is an organic fertilizer so it certainly does no harm. Also you can over apply freely without fear of hurting anything. If you apply more than your soil can decompose quickly, you will get the sour aroma of decomposing protein. That will go away, but you want to minimize that situation. The smell is the smell of ammonia disappearing. That nitrogen does more good in the soil than in the air. Next time you apply you will have to apply a lot more to get that same smell, because the population of soil microbes that decompose it will be increased. There is one more thing I would not rule out. Your photo was right by some concrete. Concrete will heat up during the day and remain warm all night. That continual warmth will evaporate more moisture from that soil next to the concrete which requires more water in those areas. Keep an eye out for that....See MoreAny books about vegetable gardening in San Francisco?
Comments (14)I got golden gate gardening by pam pierce, and it's not a bad book for the microclimate information, but I don't need to buy it now. It has a lot of you cannot do this and you cannot do that. For example being that IÂm in the fog zone, I cannot grow tomatoes or corn. When you have a problem like a blight she has a lot of can and can nots. I wish she offered more alternates to can situation with the pros and cons instead. I would rather Google the topic to get a number of different opinions, and then mull the situation over in my mind. It give me something to think about. I went to the Lnygso website and it's bad, they have a lot of stuff there, but they don't deliver. The "compost" in the photo looks like they kind they dye black, the color did not look natural. It's not a good as making a labor intense food scraps compost. I add star bucks coffee and osh redwood bark shredded, and it's the only compost I really need. They have seminars there. And there is a garden to view, but thatÂs not the kind of plants I like to grow, the lush ones, but Redwood city is quite a bit hotter than San Francisco in the summer. I still think Supersoil gave me good results when I used it in the past. It has sand, but the sand is a good type of grains of sand. The grains are not the kind of tiny grains that get all compact on you, like my sand which is bad sand, that hardens to a Caliche. When this happens the water wonÂt penetrate the soil, it just sits on top of the soil and evaporates. If you try to dig down you will see the plant roots are dry underneath. This encourages shallow rooting of plants. So, thatÂs good sand. Almost no one makes real compost anyway. Whole foods has some compost, but it was just some like pointed pieces of wood without any real deposed material. I would think with all the fruit they donÂt sell because itÂs priced too high, they could make a great compost. The other book on northern ca, has arrived and I have to pick it up an read it this weekend....See MoreUrban Camping: Angel Island, San Francisco CA
Comments (0)I laughed out loud reading this article! I donÂt know why, when people on the Net ask "What should I do when visiting San Francisco?", we natives always remember the GG Bridge, the Alcatraz tour, GG Park, the Ferry Bldg Farmers Market  but we almost never include Angel Island. ItÂs the largest island in the Bay, and the only one that is a state park. ItÂs not the most convenient to visit, but you donÂt have to have a car, which is a big advantage when staying in SF. And of course, it's the cheapest place to sleep that has a fabulous view! The photos arenÂt remarkable  heÂs a good writer, but a mediocre photographer, LOL. ******** Pitching a tent on Angel Island: An urban camping story David Curran to the SF Chronicle, June 24, 2010 (Full article at link below) (excerpted) "When you go camping on Angel Island, you presumably know before you ever arrive that you're not getting away from it all. You are in fact going to the middle of it all  smack in the center of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by Marin, the East Bay and San Francisco. If you're used to camping in what we generally think of as "the woods," there can be a period of adjustment to this. It may even last your entire stay. ...While we definitely weren't in the Sierra backcountry, we also hadn't driven five hours. Combine the proximity with the spectacular views and you get why campers have to reserve one of Angel Island's nine sites six months in advance. Yes, there are other attractions, but I doubt people spend the night in the howling winds just to be first in line at the island's Segway scooter rental. There are some oddities to Angel Island camping, which seemed to throw me for a bit of a loop when planning the trip. For one, it is an island. Surprise! This means you must take a ferry. On this note, do not, like me, spend weeks planning how to catch the Larkspur ferry because that would be wrong. What you will take is the Tiburon ferry and if you're smart, just bring backpacks." Here is a link that might be useful: Angel Island camping: SF Chron article link...See Morefall and winter gardening in san francisco
Comments (1)Welcome. You can go year round in this climate. You can grow winter vegetables (cauliflower, lettuces, cabbages, probably some of those asian veggies too). You can grow snaps, iceland poppies, calendula for winter flowers. Knock yourself out with bulb planting...it's time. I've done cuttings off of salvias in January around here. Was not a problem. You can root penstemons in winter. Personally for me Winter is a time to rest from gardening and only work on building up the soil for next spring. But there is plenty you can do if you're of a mind. SF the city rarely goes below mid thirties, if even that low....See More
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