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NullTuples

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7. Thanks - I've bred tomatoes to grow better here but they tasted awful.
Mon Oct 3, 2022, 04:51 PM
Oct 2022

I've lived in a number of different (micro)climates and sometimes the challenge (fun?) is seeing what you can coax out of the conditions you have to work with. It all started when I ran a small retail & commercial nursery many years & careers ago.

Regarding climate change: I'm in the Wine Country of the SF Bay Area and this summer I've noticed an increasing number of exploratory wine grape plots supported by many helicopter flights a few tens of miles *north* of the traditional growing areas. Two more decades and Napa Valley may no longer even be a wine growing region (or more likely they'll keep the wineries & bottling there for the marketing but grow the grapes farther and farther north). That to me is a canary in a coal mine moment.

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Last garden project of the season! [View all] Diamond_Dog Oct 2022 OP
Beautiful crop! Walleye Oct 2022 #1
Thanks! Parsley always does well for us even when other herbs do not. Diamond_Dog Oct 2022 #4
I so envy you, in the best possible way! NullTuples Oct 2022 #2
Thank you, NullTuples! Diamond_Dog Oct 2022 #5
Thanks - I've bred tomatoes to grow better here but they tasted awful. NullTuples Oct 2022 #7
You nailed it with "canary in the coal mine." Diamond_Dog Oct 2022 #8
Gorgeous. MontanaMama Oct 2022 #3
Thanks, MM! Diamond_Dog Oct 2022 #6
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