Growing food in San Francisco’s fog belt — timing, technique, and what actually works across the city’s microclimates.
The standard planting charts for this city come in two versions. Working out which one is yours takes about a minute, and it changes half of what you sow.
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A gray, damp-feeling morning tells you the garden is fine. Six inches down, the root zone often says something else entirely.
San Francisco summers run cool enough that plants drink far less than the calendar says, so a daily-watering habit is the quietest way to hurt one. Here's what too much water actually looks like.
Powdery and downy mildew look alike on the leaf and want opposite things from your hose. Here, telling them apart is most of the job.
A frost-free city means aphids never get their annual reset. Here's how to keep them in check without poisoning the garden that eats them.
Peas do well on either side of the fog line, but the sowing window depends on which one you're on, so get the timing right, then give the vines something to climb.
It's July, but the fog says otherwise. This is the month to start your fall and winter garden, and the month the fog belt gets a seven-crop head start on the rest of the city.
Seven crops that treat San Francisco's long cool year as their growing season, in the Outer Sunset and in the Mission alike.