Since San Diego County is located in the southwest of California and has, overall, what the meteorologists call a mild, Mediterranean style climate; it could be thought to be a place conducive to plant growth. In fact, the area around San Diego City is listed in the Farmers’ Almanac as being in the top 10 places for farming.
However, the presence of the Pacific Ocean coastline to the west and the many hills, mountains and canyons inland cause quite wide climatic changes over relatively small areas so it is not really accurate to generalize about the whole region. Additionally, San Diego sits on part of the San Andreas Fault system and seismic activity over the centuries has caused large scale forest fires denuding country side and causing soil erosion.
It is the resultant Soil In San Diego region that has caused some unique plant life to develop in the area. Today, the more arid areas are desert and one fifth of san Diego County is made up of part of the Sonoran Desert (one of the hottest in America) which includes the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park .The desert areas produce several unique varieties of cacti (the saguaro cactus being perhaps the best known).
The Soil In San Diego CA arid areas has also produced a unique family of plants known as chaparral which are a shrubby heath type plant, typified by scrub oak, which are well adapted to the long dry summers encountered on higher ground throughout San Diego. However, lower areas with ocean frontage are where soft leaved deciduous shrubs such as sagebrush are to be found.
Plants Cultivated For Human Benefit
Not too much is recorded about the original inhabitants of what is now San Diego and whether they were able to live off the land or needed to modify the Soil In San Diego CA in order to raise crops and breed livestock. However once Spanish/Portuguese explorer/adventurers arrived in 1452 things began to change and the advent of European settlers saw the beginning of organized farming in the area.
In order to grow the crops they wanted, improvements were needed in much of the natural Soil In San Diego CA. Settlements grew up around sources of fresh water – both for drinking and for crop irrigation. As populations grew and horticulture became a more precise science the soil would be modified, at first by natural manure and compost and then by the addition of selected chemicals and fertilizers. As the settlements grew more sophisticated, flower gardens, parks and recreational areas like golf courses were introduced. In most cases, for these to thrive, close attention had to be paid to the nature of the Soil In San Diego CA and soil modification and improvement became commonplace throughout San Diego CA.
Golf courses and ornamental flower beds are unlikely to thrive in the natural Soil Of San Diego CA. To get the right soil for your particular needs, you need to consult with experts like those at Greatsoil LLC.
