I'm about to pull out the heirloom plants. There isn't a single fruit between the two of them. I have other stuff I can put on that space.

Watered with the soaker hose again today. It's just so hot. In the morning I'll go over and get more free mulch and pile more up around my garden plants. And maybe put some newspaper under the mulch. I know that if the roots can stay moist (but not soggy) the rest of the plant will be much better off. We've been up to about 98^o every day this week.

I'm eating at least one tomato a day, two if I can manage it. They have so much flavor! I had such a drought over the winter, because no matter how much a store tomato looks like it MIGHT have flavor, it doesn't. I have the big one for the BLT. Now if I can just get my daughter (Moonglow) to come down for the ceremony we do every year. I make a loaf of bread and give it time to cool from baking, but is still Uber fresh. Then we get (or thaw - I always have some handy) bacon, and pull out fresh lettuce and the mayo and we do the Rites Of Summer. We make BLTs.

SRS