I visited with a fellow gardener yesterday and she's getting a few squash and tomatoes. She got three buggy ears of corn before they burned up and said no one's garden here is producing this year. I might get a couple ears this week. I've been setting the alarm so I can get out at the crack of dawn before it's too terribly hot. Mostly weeding and weeding. It looks like I'll be getting some yellow pear tomatoes if they can just hang on a bit. Don't know how they're managing in the heat but I'm not complaining. The other tomato varieties aren't doing squat.
Our one little grocery store here is the pits so while I was in the city the other day, I stopped in at a real grocery store. Wow! It was almost scary with all the neat foods!!! I'm sure everyone knows this but they have dried veggie snacks. In the future, if I can get a harvest, I might try dehydrating green beans and okra. I forgot to check the spices that were on them but it shouldn't be rocket science to figure it out. I did buy a dried bean soup mix so separated out a few of each bean variety to try in the garden one day. At Walmart, I picked up a few 20 cent seed packages for next year because sometimes I can't find the basics out here in podunkville.
Do you ever get rain in the fall or winter? Missouri is lucky to have several months of good rainfall that we can collect enough water to get us through, but the kind of heat we had last year, you’d need an air conditioned greenhouse to have a hope of growing your food.
Which reminds me, we get 10 gallons daily of water from our air conditioner, due to the high humidity here. We collect it and use it to water our plants.