Wow! strawberries already, I just put my strawberries in this year and it looks I'm going to get a few, but nothing like you have. I live in N.E. Ohio and we get almost the same type of weather that you and Mark get (not quit as hot), except we get the lake Erie effect, so that means more clouds, and a quick change in weather. I was just wondering what you do for hot humid weather. We have our trailer well insulated with R60 in the attic and R26 in the walls with three turbine vents on the roof, and if all of the windows are left open at night and closed in the morning everything stays cool for a long time. We do have an AC unit that I installed in the wall with a 10 seer rating, but we don't have to run it very often. Our trailer had a metal roof until I added a gabled shingled roof which allowed me to add more insulation in the attic and foil faced insulation on the outside walls. I had problems logging in, hope this works. ZIMMY

I felt just the way you did a few weeks ago. People a bit south of me were posting pictures of big bowls of strawberries on their blogs, and I thought, "No way we'll get so many!" I'm always surprised by how many strawberries we get over the course of a season. Of course, I do obsess over them --- we currently have ten beds full, which is just barely enough to glut me every day or two, but not enough to preserve any.

I like your question about dealing with the heat. I think that's going to have to be a post, though! Stay tuned!

Huh, I've never heard of them before.

Glad to know I'm doing my job and introducing homesteaders to concepts they'd never considered before.