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spidra

spidra's Berkeley Microclimate Successes garden

Garden Type: Edible | Sun: Don't Know | Soil: Clay I'm Organic!

I’ve created this listing to let other area gardeners know what works in my microclimate in Berkeley. I have clay soil. While there are some days that can be hot, in general things are windy and cool where I live. Especially windy. I live about 1 1/2 miles from the San Francisco Bay. The fact that I live on a major thoroughfare that doesn’t have street trees probably increases the amount of wind that whips through here. It’s a perfect climate for slugs and snails. It’s good for cool season crops most of the year but doesn’t get enough chill hours for many temperate fruits, particularly cherries and apricots. But it doesn’t get warm enough to grow sub-tropical and tropical fruits without a greenhouse. Nor does it get warm enough to coax maximum sweetness out of a peach.

October is often the hottest month, which took some getting used to when I moved here from LA. If you averaged our temps out over the year, I’d say we are in the mid-60s most of the time. We get frost maybe 10 times a year (which is more than we used to). The hottest days are in the 90s. 100 is rare.

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Plantings

  • Orange 'Washington Navel'

    Orange 'Washington Navel'

    Citrus sinensis

    Sown on 09 Feb 06 Of all the standard citrus I've planted, this o...

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    • Very Happy

  • White Mulberry 'Pakistan'

    White Mulberry 'Pakistan'

    Morus alba

    Sown on 20 Jan 06

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  • Highbush Blueberry 'Darrow'

    Highbush Blueberry 'Darrow'

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    Sown on 18 Jan 06 Blueberries in general have been a qualified su...

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  • Raspberry 'Else's Choice'

    Raspberry 'Else's Choice'

    Rubus idaeus

    Sown on 01 Jul 05 It came from Flatland Flower Farm in Sebastopol...

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  • Mulberry 'Persian'

    Mulberry 'Persian'

    Morus nigra

    Sown on 01 Jan 05 Mulberry is another fruit that does wonderfully...

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  • Chili Pepper 'Hungarian Yellow Wax'

    Chili Pepper 'Hungarian Yellow Wax'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Longum Group)

    A pepper that is usually picked when it's yello...

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  • Alpine Strawberry 'Golden Alexandria'

    Alpine Strawberry 'Golden Alexandria'

    Fragaria vesca spp. alpina

    Alpine strawberries are sort of the poster chil...

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  • Pineapple Guava

    Pineapple Guava

    Feijoa sellowiana

    Along with loquat, this is the "rare fruit" tha...

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  • Loquat

    Loquat

    Eriobotrya japonica

    Instead of writing about my named varieties of ...

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  • Tomato 'Sungold'

    Tomato 'Sungold'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Sungold produces orange cherry tomatoes with a ...

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Berkeley, California

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