Weather, Location, Related...

Being from the Land Of Fruit and Nuts does have it's advantages.
Especially when the above describes what I consider the REAL California.
You see the quote describes our Agriculture Rich area of California and not the Politics of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Although SF is close enough to visit and be back home in the same day, we are worlds apart.
This area produces too many crops to list, but the majority is rooted in the production of Grapes, Almonds, Pistachios, and Tree Fruit.
Just last week I did a job that had me sitting in the middle of hundreds of acres of Fresh Market Tomatoes. The field is generally planted in Cotton every year, but Market prices what they are, Cotton will take some time to recover.
I've been carefully applying fertilizer and watching the water closely on my small one dozen tree orchard in the back yard. We have trouble with hardpan and I applied gypsum to the soil this winter. Our soil is comprised of Decomposed Granite, but I hear the Gyp is good for clay too.
My Dwarf Peach Tree just gave up it's first batch of about half dozen pieces of fruit.
The Apricot had some trouble this year but at only two years old it has a few full size apricots on it. Not bad considering it's age. Next year should be better once the tap root has taken hold.
The Dwarf Nectarine is loaded and should be a few weeks out from picking.
The plums are doing well and have enough fruit to have me bagging them up for the family members shortly. Way too many plums for us to eat alone.
I'm surprised on how well the Almonds are doing since every farmer I talked to has noted the Rain and Hail took a toll on their retail crops. I have a wild tree that must have sprouted from a bird sitting on a fence last year and it's over six feet already. Should be healthy enough to produce nuts next year . The older tree is loaded as long as the Blue Jays stay off it.
The Three Citrus trees (Lemon, Orange, and Grapefruit)are still young, but have fruit that will be ripen towards the end of the year.
Two years ago I planted a small vineyard consisting of four Thompson and two Concord cuttings. This year I had to build the third tier of their wire trellis. They are growing that rapidly.
Those Topsy Turvy hanging plant things? Yes they work as long as you feel the need to water your plants about 3 times a day. Once a tomato plant get's big enough, the small hanging pot can't support enough moisture in the soil for very long. They need to be about three times larger.
My wife bought one at work and I planted some tomatoes in the basket and some in the ground. The hanging ones are much larger and producing fruit much faster, but I'm spending more time taking care of them too.

The weather has cooperated and has been cool enough to not stress the plants. Maybe that's why they are doing so well. We did have a few days over 100F in May but it has been cloudy and cool ever since.
Friday may have us in the 100s again, something I'm not looking forward to.