Hey, what's up everyone. Welcome back to the show. Today I think I'm going to address an issue that

Hopefully you're not suffering from but if you are I feel for you because my garden is as well and that would be heat stress

So it's extremely hot here in San Diego zone 10b as you might

imagine most of California actually is on fire. This is something that happens almost

every summer here but this is a particularly bad summer

fortunately Southern California San Diego especially has not been hit by fire

yet nor Cal is kind of taken the brunt of it but it's happened before and regardless of what's on fire or not, it's still

quite hot here in the garden, especially my garden being a south-facing garden in an urban

environment. And in urban environments, it's typically

anywhere from one to five degrees hotter

than rural environments, simply because of the heat island effect.

What you've got is black pavements, dark concrete, dark painted homes that are all sucking

up heat and creating a local microclimate that's actually hotter than it would be if you were

living out in the boonies.

So what can we do to our garden?

I gotta be honest with you guys.

There have been a couple times,

especially as I'm working on the book

and unfortunately not being able to focus

as much as I would want to on my outdoor garden right now.

There have been times where I've wanted to just throw in the towel.

I've been looking at my plants just saying like it's taking so much, so many resources to keep

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