In the warm, sunny pockets above the fog, peas grow beautifully too. The one difference that matters is heat. Time your sowings to dodge the late-spring warm spell and the banana belt gives you a clean, productive crop.

If you garden in the Pajaro Valley around Watsonville, the feijoa, or pineapple guava, is an easygoing fruit that fits the warm valley well. It handles the heat, the soil, and the rare valley-floor frost without complaint, making it one of the simpler fruits to add here.

The cool foggy coast is classic strawberry ground. Day-neutral plants reward you with a long, gentle picking season here, as long as you stay ahead of gray mold, slugs, and birds.

If you garden in the foggy coastal band from Santa Cruz through Aptos and Capitola, the feijoa, or pineapple guava, may be the most rewarding fruit you are not yet growing. This is one of the rare subtropical-looking fruits that genuinely prefers your cool, salty coastal air to i