Thanks for the tip Gabz. Yep, it is very hot right now. It isn’t quite as bad on the wife because we have good air conditioning in our home. Now, if I could get big enough a/c to keep me cool outside while I am picking all those beans and tomatoes it would be great. lol
LOL!!! I’d just be happy with an irrigating system (read hose and water pressure) big enough to REACH my garden. The side closest to the house is still more than a football field from the water spigot. I literally truck water out there.
We have a couple of plastic 55 gallon barrels my husband has fitted with spigots. I put them in the back of the pickup, fill them with water and then drive over to the field, then I attach a hose and let gravity do the rest of the work.
My first experimentation with dehydrating the tomatoes seems to have worked. I had a bucket load of really nice sized romas which I quartered. My dehydrator doesn’t have a fan, so I I kept switching the trays every few hours. I let them go about 30 hours. Some of them seem to need some more time, but since I have more to do, I’ll just put them back on a tray to finish.