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Since you have no written agreement, you are a tenant on a month-to-month lease. They can change the terms of the lease with 60 days written notice.
A: For starters, I assume that when you say “everybody was in agreement” you mean that nobody put the agreement in writing. Unfortunately, that happens a lot between siblings, especially in the wake of their parent’sWhendeath.youstart to analyze the problem, you first have to realize the law doesn’t care that the property is owned by four siblings, or that it was owned by your mother. As with all real estate issues, the law sees the four of you as real estate inves tors who went in together to purchase the home. When the property was left to the four of you, each of you took title as tenants in common or joint tenants. For the sake of this discussion, the only real differ ence is that joint tenancy carries a right of survivorship among the co-owners. If one of you dies, that person’s ownership auto matically transfers equally to the three surviving owners. If you hold the property as a tenant in common, then your interest in the property will go to whoever is inheriting yourHowever,estate. as a joint tenant or tenant in common, you have an absolute right to live in the prop erty so long as you don’t harm the property or prevent other co-owners from entering the property if they choose to. More specifically, you have that right unless the four of you have agreed to something else, and agreed to it in writing. It seems clear you agreed to be a tenant in the property and they agreed to let you as long as you paid the mortgage. What that really means is they agreed to let you have the property all by yourself, without them coming and going as they pleased. Now they want to change the deal.
Q: I have been living in my home for almost 10 years now. It originally belonged to my mother and when she passed away she left it to us four children. At the time, everybody was in agreement that I should move in and take care of the place. I would make the mortgage payments. The payments on the house are now well below the rental value of the property. I have gotten a letter from my two brothers that they want me to start paying almost double the house payment or move out and let them find a renter. When I called them they told me they could have someone evict me if I didn’t agree. I haven’t been able to talk with my sister to see how she feels about it. What can I do?
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Having said that you should be thinking, “Hey wait a minute, I’m an owner too!” Yes you are. And since you control one-quarter of the prop erty it’s impossible, from a practical point of view, to change the terms of the lease without your consent.
He turned his weed-filled yard into a low-water JUNGLE OF FRUIT TREES CONTENT AGENCY
A Jamaican strawberry tree produces pinkish red berries year round that look like cher ries but taste like – you guessed it – sweet ripe strawberries. And nearby is an astounding jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora), a Brazilian tree whose plum-size glossy purple fruit grow directly off the tree trunk and branches instead of stems. When he started, Ramirez had almost no experience with growing trees. Most of his learning was from watching YouTube videos (John Kohler’s Growing Your Greens is a par ticular favorite) and reading books about permaculture and composting. But being inexpe rienced was also a little freeing. He learned a lot by trial and error and didn’t let mistakes defeat“Beinghim.an artist has helped me be a better teacher and gar dener because being an artist means being creative and think ing outside the box,” he said. “I had a huge backyard with a lot of potential, and I started to go online looking at what nurseries had available. I’d see these exotic tropical trees, and I’d think, ‘I’ve got to try this.’ You know some things are going to work and some aren’t going to work, but you’ve got to take chances and try new things.” And there were plenty of failures, especially in the begin ning. He remembered a family friend’s avocado tree when he was growing up –”It was always impressive to see” – and longed to grow his own, but the first avocados he planted all died. It took a few years before any sur vived, but he persisted, and now he’s got 10 varieties thriving in his“I’veyard.learned that avocados are very sensitive at the begin ning, when you put them in the ground,” he said. “They don’t want to be overwatered or under watered, so I had to pamper them in the beginning, with worm castings, compost tea and deep watering, and they finally caught on. Oh, and you can’t plant them in the heat of summer. Wait for fall or winter or very early spring, when the soil is moist.” Most of the trees in his urban orchard are 10 to 15 years old, so they need only infrequent deep watering and thick mulch to help keep the moisture in the soil. He has a drip irrigation system but uses it only on the upper orchard where he’s planted young trees andFortomatoes.hisolder trees, he uses gray water from his kitchen sink, and a rickety system of PVC pipes propped up on bricks to collect rainwater off his roof. Those pipes are dusty these days because of the drought, but when it rains, instead of running down his nearly vertical driveway into the street, all that free water gushes down the gutters around his roof and into the orchard soil, made spongey and friable by years of compost and mulch. He doesn’t have to do that much in the orchard these days, but in the beginning, the work was intense. When he bought his fixer-upper house, he was recently divorced with shared custody of two young daughters and his focus was on updating the inside. But around the end of 2003, spurred by a commission to create a tile mural at Adventist Health White Memorial medical center in Boyle Heights, Ramirez began digging out the dirt beneath his hillside house to create a large studio where he could make his art. Load by load, he moved a small mountain of soil by wheelbarrow into his steep backyard, trying to create flatter places for planting. When he was ready to start planting, the backyard was mostly dirt and weeds, he said. He removed most of the shrubs See Jungle,
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Jose Ramirez, an artist, elementary school teacher and residential orchardist, takes a walk through his backyard, where he grows a wide variety of fruit trees in Los Angeles, Aug. 3.
LOWEST AMOUNT: $270,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,575,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $585,500 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $639,125 3436 Astoria Court - $679,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1584 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-23-20, $565,000 785 East Atlantic Avenue - $525,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 1428 SqFt - 1966 YrBlt] 106 Ayr Court - $860,500 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 2285 SqFt - 1989 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-18-14, $427,000 5062 Brookdale Circle - $685,000 08-04-22 [3 Bdrms - 1699 SqFt - 1985 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-03-02, $339,500 187 Del Sur Court - $278,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1164 SqFt - 1974 YrBlt] 191 Del Sur Court - $270,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1164 SqFt - 1974 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-11-10, $57,000 1321 Falsetto Drive - $680,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 1975 SqFt - 2015 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-10-15, $420,000 2519 Hastings Way - $570,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 1559 SqFt - 1968 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-13-08, $253,500 95 Manchester Drive - $455,000 08-04-22 [3 Bdrms - 1349 SqFt - 1995 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-01-14, $243,500 443 Mountain Meadows Drive$777,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 2614 SqFt - 2002 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-12-13, $437,500 1505 Newburgh Drive - $519,000 08-05-22 [5 Bdrms - 2392 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-14-07, $430,000 2914 Owens Court - $563,000 08-03-22 [3 Bdrms - 1674 SqFt - 1979 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-09-05, $450,000 1464 Quail Drive - $565,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 1696 SqFt - 1973 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-25-17, $340,000 549 River Road - $715,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 2191 SqFt - 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-24-08, $300,000 1332 Sanderling Drive - $535,000 08-03-22 [4 Bdrms - 1618 SqFt - 1974 YrBlt] 2622 Seminole Court - $1,575,000 08-02-22 [5 Bdrms - 5757 SqFt - 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-20-17, $1,282,000 1630 Shadywood Court - $665,000 08-04-22 [4 Bdrms - 1686 SqFt - 1995 YrBlt] 2460 Tulip Street - $601,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 1748 SqFt - 1969 YrBlt] 1343 Woolner Avenue - $475,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1392 SqFt - 1961 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-01-17, $310,000 2162 Yellow Rose Circle - $790,000 08-02-22 [5 Bdrms - 2944 SqFt - 2015 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-17-15, $534,500
TOTAL SALES: 3 LOWEST AMOUNT: $465,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $625,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $500,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $530,000 630 West A Street - $500,000 08-02-22 [3 Bdrms - 1129 SqFt - 1946 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-27-19, $344,000 1205 Dartmouth Circle - $625,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1917 SqFt - 2015 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-19-15, $377,100 466 La Esperanza Drive - $465,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1370 SqFt - 1998 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-26-19, $330,000 FAIRFIELD TOTAL SALES: 20
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148 Spinnaker Way - $680,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 2215 SqFt - 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-16-15, $400,000 7 View Street - $502,500 08-05-22 [2 Bdrms - 992 SqFt - 1940 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-06-14, $250,000 7259 Willow Creek Circle - $749,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 2747 SqFt - 2005 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-16-05, $754,066
LOWEST AMOUNT: $430,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $950,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $650,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $668,174 133 Alamo Drive - $615,000 08-01-22 [2 Bdrms - 2039 SqFt - 1975 YrBlt] 316 Bishop Drive - $650,000 08-03-22 [4 Bdrms - 1626 SqFt - 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-07-18, $472,000 626 Canterbury Circle - $865,000 08-02-22 [5 Bdrms - 3579 SqFt - 2009 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-06-10, $465,000 127 Carlsbad Circle - $430,000 08-03-22 [2 Bdrms - 1189 SqFt - 1967 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-29-19, $299,000 113 Clark Way - $649,000 08-04-22 [4 Bdrms - 1728 SqFt - 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-12-11, $166,000 436 Corte Toledo - $730,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 1851 SqFt - 1974 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-22-08, $354,500 512 Del Mar Circle - $720,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 2409 SqFt - 2013 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 02-03-17, $459,000 272 Edwin Drive - $585,000 08-04-22 [3 Bdrms - 1374 SqFt - 1976 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-20-16, $369,000 668 Eldridge Avenue - $950,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 3168 SqFt - 2008 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-07-08, $456,000 1144 Fox Hound Court - $625,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1708 SqFt - 1989 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-18-12, $250,000 237 Juneau Drive - $700,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 2241 SqFt - 2015 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-30-15, $453,000 167 Lexington Court - $635,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 1851 SqFt - 1979 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-02-10, $245,000 836 Linwood Street - $800,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 2023 SqFt - 1972 YrBlt] 1261 Marshall Road - $550,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 1602 SqFt - 1969 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 02-11-20, $397,000 785 Monaghan Circle - $610,000 08-03-22 [3 Bdrms - 1708 SqFt - 1992 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-04-02, $297,000 1212 Needham Drive - $535,000 08-03-22 [4 Bdrms - 1257 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt] 1085 Notre Dame Circle - $695,000 08-04-22 [4 Bdrms - 1984 SqFt - 1991 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-23-06, $562,575 208 Pepperell Court - $670,000 08-03-22 [4 Bdrms - 2102 SqFt - 1988 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-24-12, $306,000 725 Rambleton Drive - $790,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 1898 SqFt - 1989 YrBlt] 4006 Rose Court - $714,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 2307 SqFt - 2020 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-02-20, $560,000 468 Royal Oaks Drive - $528,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 1799 SqFt - 1974 YrBlt] 110 Sansome Court - $622,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 1840 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-19-15, $370,000 161 Via Del Sol - $700,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 2237 SqFt - 2010 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-29-13, $335,500
VACAVILLE TOTAL SALES: 23
TOTAL SALES: 20 LOWEST AMOUNT: $263,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $785,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $496,250 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $526,800 901 Alabama Street - $368,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1398 SqFt - 1904 YrBlt] 531 Annette Avenue - $478,500 08-01-22 [2 Bdrms - 930 SqFt - 1942 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-27-12, $118,000 120 Bluebird Court - $715,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 1846 SqFt - 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 00/1989, $210,000 228 Camino Alto - $630,000 08-04-22 [2 Bdrms - 1614 SqFt - 1936 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-28-11, $210,000 460 Corcoran Avenue #3 - $275,000 08-01-22 [2 Bdrms - 880 SqFt - 1972 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-19-00, $47,000 171 Fleet Street - $710,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 2454 SqFt - 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-28-17, $439,000 112 Garibaldi Drive - $450,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 2302 SqFt - 1954 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-13-20, $399,000 2100 Garnet Circle - $780,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 1908 SqFt - 1998 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-22-16, $465,000 2763 Georgia Street - $490,000 08-01-22 [3 Bdrms - 1070 SqFt - 1941 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-15-10, $115,000 152 Idora Avenue - $360,000 08-02-22 [1 Bdrms - 595 SqFt - 1947 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-02-14, $125,000 924 Kentucky Street - $263,000 08-05-22 [2 Bdrms - 790 SqFt - 1905 YrBlt] 136 Lytham Way - $590,000 08-03-22 [3 Bdrms - 1749 SqFt - 1986 YrBlt] 101 Nantucket Lane - $360,000 08-01-22 [1 Bdrms - 992 SqFt - 1984 YrBlt] 151 Pamela Court - $465,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1304 SqFt - 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-24-98, $138,500 660 Russell Street - $535,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1134 SqFt - 1943 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 00/1990, $72,000 208 Sandalwood Court - $350,000 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 1508 SqFt - 1955 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-02-03, $310,000 158 Saxony Court - $785,000 08-02-22 [4 Bdrms - 2302 SqFt - 1996 YrBlt]
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SUISUN CITY TOTAL SALES: 4 LOWEST AMOUNT: $495,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $590,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $551,500 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $547,000 500 Acapulco Court - $495,000 08-04-22 [3 Bdrms - 1553 SqFt - 1984 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-09-03, $282,000 813 Emperor Drive - $590,000 08-05-22 [4 Bdrms - 1764 SqFt - 1986 YrBlt] 1110 Jeanne Court - $565,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1334 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-03-15, $310,000 1209 Michael Court - $538,000 08-03-22 [3 Bdrms - 1353 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-27-21, $350,000
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These are the local homes sold recently, provided by California Resource of Lodi. The company can be reached at 209.365.6663 or CalResource@aol.com. Your legal obligation is to pay a quarter of the expenses incurred by the property and you have a right to occupy it. And so do they. But your brothers have a hammer. If you refuse to go along, they can go to court and force the sale of the property in something called a suit for partition. They have an abso lute right to do so. While you can slow down the process, ultimately, they will prevail. Since your occupancy of the property interferes with the sale the court will probably order you off the land so the house can be sold. To sum it up, it looks like you’ll ultimately have to pick yourYoupoison.canpay the higher rent, or negotiate a com promise, and remain in theIfproperty.youdon’t want to remain in the house under those cir cumstances, you can move out and allow the property to be rented. In the alterna tive, you can demand that the property be sold and the proceeds divided among the four owners.
RIO VISTA TOTAL SALES: 1 LOWEST AMOUNT: $500,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $500,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $500,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $500,000 798 Mitchell Street - $500,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1396 SqFt - 1999 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-12-99, $139,000
TOTAL SALES: 6 LOWEST AMOUNT: $425,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,110,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $645,250 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $726,750 575 Capitol Drive - $710,500 08-01-22 [4 Bdrms - 2178 SqFt - 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-20-02, $439,000 376 Columbia Circle - $560,000 08-04-22 [2 Bdrms - 1161 SqFt - 1992 YrBlt] 58 El Bonito Way - $580,000 08-02-22 [2 Bdrms - 764 SqFt - 1943 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-20-15, $190,000 589 Hastings Drive - $975,000 08-03-22 [4 Bdrms - 2569 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt] 462 Ofarrell Drive - $1,110,000 08-03-22 [4 Bdrms - 2569 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-23-98, $219,500 900 Southampton Road #21 - $425,000 08-05-22 [3 Bdrms - 1226 SqFt - 1977 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 00/1990, $98,500
The lesson: Don’t be an idiot and get a financial coach if you need one. We bought our four-bedroom and three-bath home in October 1990 for $210,000 with a very small down payment and a total house payment of $1,650 per month, which was $300 more than what our rent was for those two years of agony dealing with landlords that didn’t like my four kids, our dog and the two cats. Solano County home values went up in value 26% in 1988 and 16% in 1989. By 1997, and after a couple recessions, our home was only worth $195,000, $15,000 less than what I paid for it seven years earlier, and I thought to myself, holy cow, “I guess we really missed out on the Amer ican Dream.”
The lesson: I didn’t buy this house as an investment and your owner-occupied home should never be considered an invest ment because unless the kids and your spouse pay rent, your home produces no income.
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“He grew passion fruit and pineap ple guava and cherimoya, and he was always looking for seeds people brought in from Mexico, especially chiles,” Ramirez said of his father. “His philosophy was, ‘If you’re going to plant something, plant something that will give you some food.’”
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• Be open to experimentation. If you’re interested in a fruit that normally grows in other locations, read all your can about it, consult with the nurseries that grow those trees and then give it a try, Ramirez said.
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When his day job was through, Ramirez’s father built stairs and terraces of planting boxes in his yard and planted vegetables, nopal cactus (which Ramirez’s mother, Maria, canned), grapes and fruit trees spaced far apart.
It took several years for Ramirez to appreciate his father’s passion for plants. As a child, he was fascinated by the garden, “but when I got older, I didn’t want to weed anymore,” he said laughing. “We had a big hill that had to be weeded, and hay fever was my excuse.” Ramirez did pick up some garden ing basics from his dad, but when it was time to start planting his yard, he went his own way, focusing mostly on fruit trees and planting them as close together as he could manage using organic permaculture techniques.Heremarried, and his wife, Sara Aguilar, a documentary filmmaker and dancer, remembers doing a lot of water ing in the early days and worrying that the trees were going to die. She never needed a lawn, she said. In fact, her parents were members of the Theodore Payne Foun dation and early advocates of Southern California landscapes that relied on native plants and food instead of turf. But she still had misgivings about her husband’s plant ing“Itechniques.thoughthe was crazy for planting so many trees so close together,” she said. “I was like, ‘There’s no way this is going to work.’ But slowly, I began to see his vision.
• Improve your soil. Ramirez believes in growing organically and using organic amendments such as compost and worm castings to encourage the growth of beneficial microbes and mycorrhizal fungi in the soil, which help trees and other plants better absorb nutrients and water. To that end, he recommends buying good quality organic compost, such as Bu’s Blend by Malibu Compost, or making your own.
• Add a thick layer of mulch, such as 5 to 6 inches of leaves or wood chips to help keep moisture in the soil. Don’t get rid of the leaves or prunings from your trees. Use them for mulch, but place them several inches away from tree trunks to discourage disease and insect infestations.
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He’s also had to remove about a dozen stone fruit trees this year because of damage from a beetle known as the peach tree borer. Apricots and other stone fruits are among his favorites, so he’ll definitely replant when the weather is cooler and –one hopes – the ground has been refreshed by rain. He’s searching for replacement trees more resistant to the beetles, but he’s philosophical about the loss. “The garden is always changing and growing,” he wrote in a text. “It’s life and death in action.”
He did all this on top of teaching and making art, but Ramirez had lots of inspi ration from his late father, who built and tended a terraced orchard and garden in his hilly backyard in El Sereno. Jose Ramirez Sr. emigrated from Mexico to Los Angeles when he was about 10 and later served in the U.S. Navy. He started working as a carpet layer, Ramirez said, but ultimately supervised asbestos removal projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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I thought, ‘OK, I can see what’s happen ing,’ and it’s been really fun seeing the treesTheirgrow.”daughter, Sol Aguilar Ramirez, 16, loves to wander in the orchard with her friends, picking fruit for immediate con sumption. “They think it’s cool,” she said. “And it’s kind of peaceful to just sit.” Ramirez’s schedule is gentler these days, but no less demanding. He’s just completed illustrations on his eighth chil dren’s book – “My Dad Is a Fieldworker” (“Mi papá es un agrícola”) due to be pub lished later this year. After nearly three decades as a classroom teacher, he con sidered retiring this fall to put more focus on his art, but his principal made him a counter offer too intriguing to refuse: Come back as the school’s art specialist. Even in his new role, he expects to follow his same routine – getting to school around 6:30 a.m. to plan his lessons for the day and leaving around 2:30 p.m. “First, I come home and nap,” he said laughing. “Then I go check things in the garden. I have someone helping me now, so we go over pruning or fixing the drip irrigation or harvesting. And when it gets dark, I can focus on my art.” Trees and other plants feature promi nently in his art. He made ceramic name tags for every tree, listing their common and Latin names so he can learn their names as he’s working in the orchard. And beneath many trees are the ceramic vehi cles, pyramids, masks and other relics he created for his MFA from UC Berke ley. The topic was serious – depicting the way Mexico’s artifacts were taken from historic sites by museums and other col lectors – but under the trees, the effect feels almost whimsical, serene ceramic faces enjoying the shade. The orchard was a godsend during the Covid-19 pandemic, he said. It became a refuge for friends and family desperate to find a safe place to gather. They would perch on the deck or around the trees, sharing meals and conversation along with the fruit. Pre-pandemic, he and Sara hosted open houses where people could tour his studio gallery and the orchard; he hopes to resume those later this year. People interested in a tour can leave their email address on his website for news about upcoming dates. Ramirez used to take boxes of fruit to school to share with his students and their families, but that stopped during the pan demic, when so many students learned from home. He and his family are vege tarians, so they eat a lot of what they grow. He passes out excess fruit to neighbors and family and donates boxes to commu nity food banks. The experiments continue in his orchard-yard. In an empty sunny section on the upper lot, he’s trying to build up the soil by creating compost piles directly in the ground. He dug a hole about 3 feet in diameter, which the family is filling with kitchen scraps and other green waste. He covers the hole with a board; when it’s full, he’ll make another, eventually creating a fertile area for more planting.
• Add rock dust or azomite minerals to your soil to improve water retention as well. “I get a 50-pound bag of rock dust and just broadcast it around the orchard or add a handful around the circumference of the trees,” he said.
• Plant when it’s cool, preferably in the winter or early spring, to give trees a chance to get established before the weather turns hot.
8 Friday, September 9, 2022 — DAILY REPUBLIC and nonfruiting trees – including a tower ing line of old ficus trees that worked as a hedge between his yard and the vacant lot next door. He kept their thick gray trunks, which act as a kind of sculptural retain ing wall today, as well as a pomegranate, zapote, fig and olive trees. Later, he used lasagna mulching to smother persistent ivy with layers of wet cardboard and a mulch of wood chips, sawdust and coffee grounds from a local cafe, as well as rock dust to re-mineralize the soil. And every day after work at Esperanza Elementary School in Pico Union, he’d stop at a hardware store and buy 10 more concrete bricks to build one of his many retaining walls. “The landscaping part was kind of crazy,” he said. “I was bringing in mate rials every day and working until the sun wentThatdown.”hewas gardening in an almost vertical space didn’t make the job easier. Buying a load of mulch was impossible, he said, because the trucks couldn’t get to his backyard, and there wasn’t room for a load to sit on his driveway or street, so he instead made frequent visits to a nowclosed drop site where arborists could leave their wood chips for community use and bagged up as many chips as his small pickup could carry.
• Use compost tea to feed your trees while watering. Ramirez has had good luck with a dried compost tea from Boogie Brew, a company in Sonoma County that has been helpful in answering questions as well.
• Don’t give up. Failure is a given in gardening, Ramirez said. Learn from your mistakes and keep trying.
• Research is crucial. Ramirez is a fan of experimentation, but he also believes in education. He spends a lot of time listening to gardening videos on YouTube, talking with experts at local nurseries or reading information on specialty websites such as Dave Wilson Nursery, Kuffel Creek Nursery and California Rare Fruit Growers.
• Filter your irrigation water to remove chlorine and other chemicals that can destroy the beneficial microbes you want to encourage in your soil. Ramirez uses a Boogie Blue Filter Plus that just screws onto his hose, which is also made by Boogie Brew.
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Norman Winter is a horticultur ist, garden speaker and author of “Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South” and “Captivat ing Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden.” Follow him on Facebook fromcomplimentaryterTheGardenGuy.@NormanWinHereceivesplantstoreviewthecompanieshecovers.
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I was only able to rustle up one plant in early spring for my trials. It was like having a juicy sirloin strip and only getting one bite (oh, I wanted more), as I could tell this coneflower had the possibility of being one for the ages. It is a thoroughbred in all aspects. It is tall, reaching 24 to 26 inches with a 20-inch spread. The flowers are huge, with many exceeding 5 inches. The summer was one of heat index misery, but they persisted, just like the flaming Color Coded ‘Orange You Awesome’ variety. Later on, I was able to come up with about a half-dozen more plants to temper my plant lusting. One in a Melon is special in its color progression. It starts off golden orange and matures to the melon or a vibrant butter yellow. While we often use the term “fade,” reflecting that a flower lost some pizzazz, in the case of One in a Melon, its mature color is just as beauti ful and complements the new emerging blossoms. As The Garden Guy was hoping, the flowers turned their spot in the garden into a small but beautiful Serengeti for pol linators and yes, those who eat them. I often laugh at garden ers on my pollinator social sites that holler or cry about a raptorlike bird swooping in to devour a butterfly. While they implore others on how to prevent this, I’m always wanting to answer, “How lucky you are.”
I don’t know if you are like me, but I always have a spot or two somewhere in the landscape that starts off with a great plan or design, but the appropriation of more plants that couldn’t be passed up magically transforms the area into one for the memory books. Add beautiful butterflies and you’ll find yourself sitting by the winter fire thinking about the best garden ever. For my trials, Color Coded ‘One in a Melon’ was just such an acquisition.
Color Coded ‘One in a Melon’ is joined in 2023 by Color Coded ‘The Fuchsia is Bright,’ which is just a little shorter but boasts fragrance along with colorful fuchsia and pink flowers. Cone flowers are easy to grow, they need plenty of sun and welldrained soil. The soil need not be luxuriant, but a winter bog, however, simply will not work.
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My first Color Coded coneflow ers were planted in 2019. So this is my fourth year. If they croaked tomorrow, I would say they have been great. But they are about to put on another big flush of blooms, which is going to be perfect timing for peak but terfly season.
This dark form female Eastern Tiger swallowtail butterfly creates the perfect contrast as she feeds on the Color Coded, One in a Melon coneflower which makes its debut in 2023.
The Color Coded echina cea series has been a champion at bringing in an assortment of bees, and butterflies like mon archs, swallowtails, buckeyes, hairstreaks, sulphurs and more. Then there are the hunters like the green anole lizards just waiting for their version of the happy meal. Leaving some seedpods has another wonderment of nature close at hand. With the stealth-like arrival of the bright yellow American goldfinch to pick the seeds, you’ll promise to yourself and nature, you will always grow coneflowers.
Solano County Listings: Homes for sale
MULTI UNIT 2-4 PRICE ADDRESS CITY UNITS BLDGS SQ. FT. MLS $735,900 549-551 Pacific Avenue Fairfield 2 1 2479 321043438
LOTS & LAND PRICE A DDRESS CITY LOT/AC SUB TYPE MLS# $699,000 Liberty Ln Vacaville 25.01 AGRI 322061524 $950,000 Liberty Ln Vacaville 29.9 AGRI 322061700 $2,300,000 5663 Dally Rd Vacaville 76.09 AGRI 322070665 $4,500,000 6156 Clark Rd Dixon 78.98 AGRI 322049465 $500,000 360 Butcher Rd Vacaville 1.10 COMM 321098151 $1,870,000 2300-11 E Monte Vista Ave Vacaville 3.66 COMM 321102156 $265,000 2060 Pinecrest Ct Vacaville 1.15 RESA 322048328 $359,950 Gibson Canyon Vacaville 1.55 RESA 22029146 $424,900 3757 Wild Oak Trl Vacaville 4.96 RESA 322061715 $549,000 County Rd Crockett 1.06 RESA 321089387 $549,000 3745 Wild Oak Trl Vacaville 5 RESA 322061705 $875,000 Oakridge and Lopes Rd Benicia RESA 322061922 $875,000 8 457 Plesants Valley Rd Winters 22.16 RESA 321000406 $15,000,000 Mankas Fairfield RESA 21825708 $498,000 English Hills Rd Vacaville 2.5 RESL 322065164 MOBILE/FLOATING
$639,900 219 Larkspur Dr Vacaville 3 2 /1 2040 0.138 322073197
$615,000 718 Scottsdale Dr Vacaville 4 2 /0 1489 9147sf 322078575 $615,000 751 Embassy Circle Vacaville 3 2 /1 1669 0.08 322050795 $629,900 773 Calico Trl Vacaville 3 2 /0 1633 0.152 322078867 $629,999 296 Plantation Way Vacaville 4 2 /1 1840 0.13 322062209
PRICE A DDRESS CITY BEDS BA (F/H) SQ. FT. LOT/AC MLS # PRICE A DDRESS CITY BEDS BA (F/H) SQ. FT. LOT/AC MLS #
$648,000 636 Silver Start Ct Vacaville 4 2 /0 1661 0.134 322071778 $649,000 637 Dahlia Dr. Vacaville 3 2 /1 1639 3598 322073117 $650,000 148 Monte Verde Dr Vacaville 5 2 /1 2196 0.43 322080601 $650,000 8 32 Derry Cir Vacaville 3 2 /0 1708 0.142 322066283 $659,900 784 Calico Trl Vacaville 3 3/0 1,951 0.15 322072800 $689,000 330 Woodside Circle Vacaville 4 2 /1 2048 0.18 322080336 $699,755 660 Dahlia Dr Vacaville 4 3/0 2014 0.083 322071973 $699,950 112 Salinas Dr Vacaville 3 2 /0 1567 0.19 322075118 $749,000 130 Deerglen Cir Vacaville 3 4 /0 2,906 0.19 322063138 $769,999 8 48 Daffodil Dr Vacaville 3 3/0 2,429 0.13 322061022 $790,000 8024 Claret Court Vacaville 4 3/1 2941 0.16 322074811 $795,000 901 Cedarcrest Dr Vacaville 5 3/0 3014 0.207 322061115 $810,000 754 Arabian Cir Vacaville 3 2 /0 2,066 0.26 322067856 $839,000 606 Hillcrest Cir Vacaville 4 2 /0 2202 0.233 322054244 $840,000 467 Royal Tern Dr Vacaville 5 5/0 4,082 0.14 322027703 $895,000 4 30 Longwood Pl Vacaville 4 2 /1 2188 0.239 322077183 $950,000 155 Foothill Dr Vacaville 3 3/0 1,919 0.60 322068886 $995,000 7396 Paddon Rd Vacaville 3 2 /0 1500 2.43 322071057 $1,275,000 8 42 Elderberry Loop Vacaville 5 4 /1 4058 0.295 322043728 $2,300,000 5663 Dally Rd Vacaville 2 1/0 1024 76.09 322072721 $300,000 150 Calhoun St Vallejo 3 1/0 988 0.010 322079969 $519,000 1728 Napa St Vallejo 3 2 /0 1530 0.106 322037217 $595,000 1543 Granada Street Vallejo 3 2 /0 1350 6534 322072731 $595,000 745 Rollingwood Dr Vallejo 3 2 /0 1,100 0.13 322074991 $615,000 118 Fairmont Ave Vallejo 4 3/0 2,107 0.16 322069781 $625,000 815 Valle Vista Ave Vallejo 3 2 /0 1,829 0.13 322068195 $1,180,000 3024 Overlook Dr Vallejo 4 3/0 3,368 0.25 322071681 $625,000 708 W Main Street Winters 4 2 /1 1920 0.09 222097150 $679,500 3931 Central Ln Winters 3 2 /0 1782 5.52 322032322 $875,000 8 457 Plesants Valley Rd Winters 2 1/0 22.16 321006700
PRICE ADDRESS CITY BEDS BA(F/H) SQ. FT. MLS # $145,000 119 Goya Dr Fairfield 2 1/0 720 322076794 $205,000 118 Goya Dr Fairfield 3 2 /0 1488 322081268 $199,000 10 Del Rey Ct Vacaville 2 1/0 1000 322065331 $209,000 140 Calle Chapultepec Vacaville 3 2 /0 1300 322072141 $79,000 2500 Springs Rd #252 Vallejo 1 1/0 360 322065332
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$840,000 116 Mountview Ter Benicia 4 3/0 2,288 0.11 322031987 $479,900 1340 Blackberry Ct Dixon 4 2 /0 1969 0.07 322073001 $488,888 1019 Parkgreen Dr Dixon 2 2 /0 1257 0.130 322063429 $495,900 1320 Blackberry Ct Dixon 3 2 /0 1487 0.073 322062507 $519,700 710 Priddy Dr Dixon 3 1/1 1036 6969sf 322080176 $530,000 1000 West F Street Dixon 4 2 /0 1771 0.15 322071225 $615,000 1235 Baylor Wy Dixon 4 3/0 2169 0.075 322074809 $749,000 705 Wiegand Way Dixon 4 2 /0 1850 0.23 322055685 $770,000 500 Kings Ct Dixon 5 3/1 3200 0.195 322070538 $4,500,000 6156 Clark Rd Dixon 4 4 /0 5906 78.98 322047718 $367,000 225 Pennsylvania Ave #42 Fairfield 3 2 /0 1084 0.026 322065570 $439,950 56 Del Prado Cir Fairfield 3 2 /1 1234 0.038 322081681 $527,000 305 Gardenia Cir Fairfield 4 2 /0 1440 0.15 322077544 $534,000 8 49 Finch Wy Fairfield 3 2 /0 1300 0.13 322053377 $534,800 175 Santa Barbara Way Fairfield 3 2 /0 1,213 0.14 322079516 $539,900 178 Santa Barbara Way Fairfield 3 2 /0 1,335 0.14 322079600 $549,000 1180 Dana Dr Fairfield 0 0 1,650 0.16 322070975 $565,000 8 32 Tulare Circle Fairfield 4 2 /1 1934 6006 322080552 $589,000 2737 Almondwood Wy Fairfield 4 2 /1 1512 0.08 322080695 $589,200 2438 Sheldon Dr Fairfield 3 2 /1 1695 0.073 322063007 $650,000 2018 Windsor Pl Fairfield 3 2 /1 1862 0.26 322078194 $665,000 4756 Canyon Hills Dr Fairfield 4 3/0 1,816 0.12 322076136 $674,000 2970 Rustle Ct Fairfield 3 2 /0 2,125 0.24 322073891 $675,000 3116 Clydesdale W Fairfield 4 2 /1 2253 8 302 322044501 $725,000 783 Glacier Wy Fairfield 4 2 /1 1775 0.166 322059293 $750,000 3422 Glen Ellen Dr Fairfield 4 3/0 3287 0.229 322029030 $824,999 3032 Muse Wy Fairfield 4 3/0 2841 0.135 322078149 $850,000 5224 Tuscany Drive Fairfield 3 3/0 2,308 0.12 322067123 $899,900 4579 Avondale Cir Fairfield 5 3/0 3611 0.187 322060341 $999,000 417 Knoll Dr Fairfield 4 2 /1 2803 0.257 322070191 $1,250,000 2970 Pebble Beach Circle Fairfield 5 3/0 3,060 0.23 322078352 $1,290,000 63 Willotta Dr Fairfield 4 2 /2 3845 0.37 322074591 $1,525,000 1106 Skywest Ct Fairfield 5 3/0 3414 0.804 322068078 $1,687,000 5270 Oakridge Drive Fairfield 4 3/0 4,034 0.3 332069250 $2,300,000 853 Bridle Ridge Dr Fairfield 4 6/0 3,937 0.97 322075479 $2,350,000 1604 Amaral Ct Fairfield 3 2 /0 2,319 2.5 322074329 $599,000 2759 Parkview Terrace Fairfiled 3 2 /0 1,332 0.16 322072682 $445,000 101 Cedar Ridge Dr Rio Vista 2 2 /0 1671 0.129 322064595 $499,000 51 Montego Ct Suisun City 3 2 /0 1342 0.14 322047267 $529,000 706 Chula Vista Wy Suisun City 3 2 /0 1424 0.174 322074705 $539,000 1035 Greylag Dr Suisun City 3 2 /0 1,320 0.13 322078212 $550,000 635 Klamath Wy Suisun City 3 2 /0 1492 0.14 322079444 $555,000 411 Avalon Wy Suisun City 3 2 /0 2152 0.23 322067943 $580,000 502 Floyd Ct Suisun City 3 2 /1 1492 0.092 322071753 $595,000 1381 Potrero Cir Suisun City 3 2 /0 1564 0.159 322080723 $670,000 330 Engell Ct Suisun City 3 2 /1 2206 0.160 322070250 $439,000 101 Isle Royale Cir Vacaville 2 2 /0 1152 0.15 322080839 $469,000 105 Rainier Cir Vacaville 2 2 /0 1152 0.13 322078018 $475,000 207 Citrus Avenue Vacaville 3 2 /0 1160 0.12 322078904 $480,000 125 Christine Dr Vacaville 3 2 /0 1,062 0.11 322080818 $485,000 112 Manzanita Dr Vacaville 3 2 /0 1472 0.12 322075477 $499,500 207 Madrone St Vacaville 3 2 /0 1286 0.11 322040262 $510,000 1116 Cloverbrook Cir Vacaville 3 2 /0 1328 0.128 322075674 $529,000 424 Mandarin Cir Vacaville 2 2 /0 1323 1163 322066345 $539,900 112 Persimmon Cir Vacaville 3 3/0 1,557 0.13 322074980 $544,000 240 Grape St Vacaville 3 2 /0 1672 0.12 322058654 $547,900 407 Deodara St Vacaville 3 2 /0 1168 0.13 322059937 $549,000 349 Elder St Vacaville 3 2 /0 1202 0.11 322074864 $549,000 686 Mashall Rd Vacaville 3 2 /0 1402 0.18 322059279 $552,500 1869 Brookwood Dr. Vacaville 3 2 /0 1274 6534 322076555 $569,000 943 Bluewater Dr Vacaville 3 2 /0 1,312 0.11 322073233 $569,900 801 S Orchard Ave Vacaville 3 2 /0 1230 0.12 322073187
$585,000 8 39 Morissette Way Vacaville 3 2 /0 1,249 0.14 322070474 $590,000 107 Colony Way Vacaville 4 3/0 1,887 0.07 322068608 $590,000 250 Harvest Dr Vacaville 3 2 /0 1614 0.138 322066995 $600,000 462 Danbury Cir Vacaville 4 2 /0 1767 0.134 322074441 $610,000 542 Twilight St Vacaville 3 2 /0 1,484 0.10 322073176
DAILY REPUBLIC — Friday, September 9, 2022 11 ON THE M ARKET FOR THIS WEEKEND September 10th & 11th Open House Saturday 12-2PM 706 Chula Vista Drive, Suisun City 3bd/2ba, 1424sf on an expansive .17 acre lot! Move in ready w/new kitchen w/quartz counters & new SS appliances. New interior paint/carpet & exterior trim. Updated HVAC. Close to Travis AFB, Schools, Montebello Vista park, shopping & dining. $529,000 OPEN HOUSE Open House Saturday 10:30-12:30PM 225 Pennsylvania Ave, A2, Fairfield Beautiful 3bd/2ba w/updates. New paint & floors. Cathedral ceilings & fp. Kitchen w/granite counters & open view to living area. Spacious main bedroom w/en suite bathroom +courtyard view. HOA includes Management, Maintenance Grounds, Garbage, Water+! $367,000 Open House Sunday 12-3PM 417 Knoll Drive, Fairfield $75,000 PRICE REDUCTION! Private gated community! 4b/2.5 custom home on 1/4 acre lot w/ panoramic views! Beautifully updated w/hardwood floors, granite counters, GE SS appliances, double oven. 18in tile in entry w/custom accents. FR w/spectacular custom stone fireplace. Primary bedroom w/views from oversized windows & private balcony, bathroom w/sep granite vanities, spa tub, tile shower. Custom built outdoor fp, stamped patio, gorgeous landscaping & views. $975,000 OPEN HOUSE Bobby Schultze & Associate Broker/REALTOR® DRE#02059665 (707) 389-9331 Bobby Schultze & Associate Broker/REALTOR® DRE#02059665 (707) 389-9331 Open House Sat & Sun 11-1PM 430 Longwood Place, Vacaville Beautiful new listing! 4BR 2.5BA single story w/3 car garage & inground pool. Wonderful fully landscaped 10,400 sqft lot. Home features updated kitchen, updated flooring, plantation shutters & much more. $879,000 OPEN HOUSE Kimberly Ney & Associate REALTOR® DRE#02056803 (530)Elaine219-8408Sciacca&AssociateREALTOR® DRE#02089683 (707) 344-1891 OPEN HOUSE
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floor bd/ba. Vaulted ceilings w/recessed lighting throughout. Kitchen w/granite, oversized sink, large pantr y, huge island w/storage & counter seating. $824,999 Open House Sunday 1-3PM 424 Mandarin Circle, Vacaville Senior living
BEST in beautiful Diamond Grove!!! 2bd/2ba + den, 1323sf. Gas fireplace between living
Great Family Home 71 8 Allender Way, Rio Vista Gorgeous home, renovated since purchase. 3 bedrooms/2 baths, with all new flooring/ baseboards, interior paint, light fixtures & landscaping/hardscape, including extending driveway. Kitchen has new painted cabinets, quartz counters & island. $499,000 NEW PRICE! A MUST SEE 147 Gardiner Way Rio Vista Custom Craftsman Cottage, 1952, w/ detached carport, 70 ft driveway, workshop & studio/she shed, sunroom on a shy 1/4 acre lot. 3 bedroom, possibly 4, w/2 baths, laminate floors & white blinds. Space for your RV/boat etc. Solar. $540,000
& dining area. Eat in kitchen. Large covered patio runs width of home. Easy care garden w/fruit trees & roses. Community pool. $529,000 Ralene Nelson REALTOR® BRE#01503588 (707) 334-0699 Ralene Nelson REALTOR® BRE#01503588 (707) 334-0699 Ralene Nelson REALTOR® BRE#01503588 (707) 334-0699 OPEN HOUSE Renee Neuman & Associate REALTOR® DRE#01231287 (707) 249-2702 Omar Hampton & Associate REALTOR® DRE#01242723 (707) 529-7545
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Open House Sat 11-2PM & Sun 1:30-3:30PM 1536 Michigan Street, Fairfield Updated 3 bd 2 ba with new interior paint, carpets & laminate flooring, new stainless appliances, painted cabinets & resurfaced counter tops. Home also has dual pane windows, tankless water heater, newer roof and new air condenser. $495,500 Open House Saturday 12-3PM 3032 Muse Way, Fairfield 2020 Built 4/3. Separate living areas, formal dining area + addl. living/bonus rm upstairs! 1st at its room
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