Summer Schedule

Summer is a busy season with longer days and more to do. It’s also hotter! I find myself on a different work schedule than in spring, autumn, and winter.

The seasonal gist is that I try to get all my planting done before our summer dry spell. There’s no way to predict this, of course, so I just have to be diligent and hope I get everything in the ground in time to get a couple of good spring rains. Hopefully, everything is growing by early summer, so I shift to mulching. My goal is to get everything deeply mulched before the harvest kicks into full gear. Once that starts, the only garden time I get is picking. The rest of the day is spent preparing, canning, drying, or freezing the harvest.

My daily schedule changes too. In winter, I do indoor stuff in the mornings, waiting to go outside until after it warms up. In summer, I’m out as early as possible to beat the heat. By about 9 or 9:30 a.m., the sun is too intense and too hot to work in. So, I switch to indoor tasks or projects I can do in the shade.

How about you? Do you change schedules according to the season?