And this is what I get for complaining about the heat. My three days off next week will be mid to high 90s.
We've got some regular household trash to burn so I guess we'll set it across the top of the leaf pile to help them burn. Soon too because the first storm is already in Springfield, 80 mi away. I'll reburn to finish it up next week.
I'll be able to drive that full circle around the house in about an hour. Will need gravel before I do it too much.(or a long spell of dry weather;~)
Early smaller varieties are usually more heat tolerant. Super Sweet 100, Homestead, Black Krim and Arkansas Traveler which I have tried and are good. Determinate Yakui Hybrid does well in heat and produces large blocky canning/paste type tomatoes on a 36-40 inch bush. Productive and better for canning and sauces than eating.
Look at Dixie Red, Solar Fire, SuperSioux and Summer Set which I have not tried.
Never did rain here. Slid past North of us.
I successfully drove around the house, barely. Moved a few things further back and took out a couple of small trees to make it a little less barely. I’ve wanted a wrap around driveway for several years now. Won’t be wide enough yet for UPS/Fedex but will work for me, the mail carrier and visitors in cars.
Still got a long ways to go on clean up around here and it’s something that just doesn’t go all that fast. Doesn’t help that I brought a bunch of mostly junk back here when I cleaned out the neighbor’s barn and offloaded it right up here near the house until I could go through it.
Pulled a few things out of the shop, up out of the goat manure. Nothing of any real value because I already got that out of there a long time ago. Need to get everything I can find so I can start scooping more manure out of there. It’s 5-6” deep on the sides.
Every week of 3 days off just needs to become 2-3 days of cleanup and work on the tunnel soil for a while. Virtually free and needs to be done.