November tips for your Peninsula garden: Spring bulbs, broccoli, dahlias — and garden critters
What should you be doing in your Peninsula garden this November? This month’s tips include planting spring-blooming bulbs, keeping aphids off your broccoli and preparing dahlias for winter. Plus, learn how to identify what’s digging around in your yard.
For Palo Alto renters, saving for a down payment could take 50 years
Bay Area households that rent and hope to buy their first home could need decades to save enough for a down payment and closing costs on a starter home. The estimated time is 28 years in the San Francisco metropolitan area, 43 years in the San Jose area and nearly 50 years in Palo Alto,…
El Niño: Is your Peninsula home ready?
In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency to help prepare for the coming rainy season. While it’s too soon to know how much the predicted El Niño pattern will affect the Midpeninsula, residents can take steps now to reduce potential damage to their homes and yards.
Peninsula’s October heat waves make now a good time to check trees for stress
The Bay Area’s summer weather, followed by humid heat waves that lasted into mid-October, may have left Peninsula trees stressed. Even with the first rain and temperatures cooling, trees can take time to show signs of heat damage.
Home & garden
October tips for your Peninsula garden: Cover crops, persimmons, shallots — and coffee
Should you put coffee grounds in your garden? When are persimmons ready to pick? Master…
Neighborhoods
The dark history behind Woodside’s Moore Road
Woodside’s Moore Road is lined with oak trees, horse paddocks and large homes on multi-acre lots. But more than a century ago, it was the…
Real Estate business
With a nearly $11M median sale price, Atherton reclaims title as nation’s priciest ZIP code
Atherton has not only reclaimed its title as the nation’s most expensive ZIP code, but has also become the first in the country to reach…
