It is extremely hot. Rather than run up our electric bill by dehydrating vegetables for 12 hours, we made a drying rack and are trying sun-drying. Bananas are always a problem because they just don’t last and the birds all love them. So we shall see what happens. The bananas were too ripe to slice up and may never dry but would be compost by tomorrow, if we didn’t try. We have dried peppers before and they were successful. Our birds are real Texans and eat jalapenas, pablanos and hot banana peppers. They really seem to enjoy them, but tomatoes not so much. We shall see if they eat dried tomatoes.
In todays load of produce from the Weatherford Famers Market were plums, cherries, oranges, sweet potatoes, squash and bell peppers.
There is a 20% chance of rain but I don’t expect our drying rack to get wet. If the weather report is 20% that means that over hundreds of square miles that is Dallas Fort Worth, 20% of the land may get some rain. We are west Texas and dramatically different that east Texas. The point is that my dried vegetables should be fine.
Once they are dry I will bag the excess and save for another time.
