Reddit reviews Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California
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Yeah it’s great! You want this particular book though. https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gate-Gardening-3rd-Year-Round/dp/1570616175
This may be a useful resource:
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gate-Gardening-3rd-Year-Round/dp/1570616175
I haven't had luck with onions in Alameda, for what that's worth. I got some nice green onions out of it, but not much else. Onions are so cheap at the store that it seems more worthwhile to grow something more expensive, like squash or kale. I've had good results with peppers, tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, radishes, eggplant and cauliflower.
What helped for me the first year of gardening was growing everything I thought I'd want, keeping track of seed varieties, sprouting dates and weighing my yield, and then using that information to figure out what I wanted to plant the following year. It's by no means foolproof, but better than going in blind for the second year in a row. I also recommend the book Golden Gate Gardening for more information about vegetables in the bay area.
> Is there a good resource for finding out where the fog is in San Francisco?
Look out the window?
Sorry for the snarky joke. :)
Besides weather forecasts, the prevailing weather patterns in San Francisco are actually pretty interesting.
There is no coincidence that the ancient location of the main Indian village (in what is now San Francisco) is in the Mission District, which is the warmest and sunniest part of the City.
Pam Pierce wrote an interesting book about the microclimates of SF.
The bottom line is that fog is cool air, and cool air likes to sink. Therefore the fog zones all are the lowest pathways for air flow. The Golden Gate is the biggest of these. Also, the low point in the ridgeline near Daly City tends to collect the fog. The converse is that areas protected by high points tend not to be foggy, so therefore the areas with airflow blocked by Twin Peaks tend to be sunny.