• Gardening

    Posted on August 13th, 2010

    Written by Howard Young

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    Too Cold to Garden in Thousand Oaks

    The weather has been painfully cold this summer making it very difficult to grow things this year.  All summer long the spring like temperatures drop into the low fifties at night and barely reach the 80′s during the day. We did have a heat wave in July.   I think it made it into the 90′s [...]

  • Gardening

    Posted on May 18th, 2010

    Written by Howard Young

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    May Showers Brings June Veggies

    It is unusually cold and wet this May and I don’t think it ever rained (in Southern California) on my Birthday but I believe this is the closest it ever is going to get if the drizzles continue until Friday. My starter seeds failed again this season producing week and limp shoots that died like [...]