Garden Showdown: Surviving the Bay Area Heat Wave! 

I'm so glad that we are having a bit of lower temps in the Bay Area but def looking forward to when it'll be even lower in a few days! Minimal damage despite not getting the shade cloth up but I do have trees that offer some breaks in direct sun at different parts of the day. Having most things on drip that runs for 15 min (4x a day) plus heavy mulching in the areas that get the most sun....has gotten the plants through and they are doing pretty good, if not very good. Your garden is looking lovely and I'm sure the damaged plants will come back!

Forty years ago, I lived in the Bay area (Hayward). I remember we had a week of 85° and everyone I knew was complaining, it was not normal. I wasn't having any problems being from the south. Temperature over a hundred in the Bay area, you must be miserable. No one that I knew had AC in their homes, it wasn't needed.