Texas Gardening: Y'all hot yet?, 1 by brigidlily

brigidlily wrote:
I mowed the back yard about 8 yesterday morning. I keep a thermometer on the back porch where the sun won't hit it, and just for grins I set it out in the sun. About 8:30, when I first set it out, it said it was 82. I checked it just before 9, and it read 112. How's that for some strong sun? And it won't even be summer until Friday!

Got a feeling we're in for a long one, and I've had maybe an inch of rain in the last month. I grew up in this, but I don't know how! The tomatoes will be long gone before long.