Sown-ja Lewis

That structure looks tricky, and might work well only in perfectly mild weather with no wind-driven rain.

A covered porch is one of the best answers. But if not originally attached, with proper flashing, they can cause interior leaks in the house.

Clothespins are NOT a hassle, as long as you buy wooden ones with springs, ones that have a dependable grip (big enough ones, 3-3/8"). You keep them in a small totebag slung diagonally across your torso. Do NOT leave them out on the line, because even in a dry climate, they will begin to mildew, and the carbon makes permanent stains on your clothes. WHY USE CLOTHESPINS? Their versatility allows you to dry faster & thoroughly. Because you pin the clothes just from a bottom edge of a T-shirt, and the open top edge of a thick sock.  THINK: keep the clothing OPEN for maximum air flow. Often, you need to turn pants inside out to expose pockets to air, and unbutton flaps on shirt pockets.
REMOVE THAT MENTAL IMAGE of clothes bent over a clothesline, in order to pin them, which creates 4 thicknesses of cloth that you're trying to dry! Maybe our ancestors only had the non-spring pegs they made themselves, and if the cloth was thin, it took 4 thicknesses to hold those pegs?

Don't forget to also use twiggy shrubs, lawn chairs, lath panels, fences for all those extra space-taking socks!
You drape very large/heavy items over 2 lines. A dryer can be used briefly, before or after hanging out the laundry, to fluff it or hasten drying.

Wonder if the black slab would get hot enough to burn the bottom of what you're baking. It might, if it was directly inside the glass box, not underneath it?

I often have a few rocks anchoring shade cloth, or the upside-down tomato cages in my raised beds lined with weed barrier cloth. Heat over 95F (here, often over 100 this summer) makes rock's heat even more dangerous, so I realized years ago that some mulch over the rocks was good. Some of the writers in this thread may be applying more water to their veggies than needed--unless the soil is sandy with inadequate amendments? The surface should dry a little; ideally roots will grow below this and be better protected.

A vertical trough around fruit trees, filled with mulch and compost, might dry out too quickly and put roots at risk. Don't forget that a balanced SOIL is a natural goodness, is water-retentive, and a source of nutients.

Wood chip mulch--useful for allowing water infiltration, but usually more nutrient-poor than grass or weed mulch.

The story going around North Idaho a few years ago: someone flushed a fuel tank 3 times with soapy water and let it dry. But when he tried to cut it with a torch, there was enough fuel remaining in the rusty interior to cause a fatal explosion.

Lots of interesting replies! I especially liked the categories given by Bengi. Comfrey was a new wave of high-protein forage around 1960, but if eaten in quantity or at wrong season or by small children, it is highly toxic to the liver. (and more recently, kidney toxicity is sure being watched for in all alternative foods and medicinals). Hostas contain the soapy chemicals found on quinoa, but maybe soaking or tossing the cooking water helps? Bracken fern fiddleheads can taste like asparagus if harvested while they're still emerging. But they're also associated with stomach cancer.

Regarding long-term possible bad effects of manure: SALT (NaCl plain or mineralized) added in quantity to animal food, or offered in a way that it falls into the manure or bedding, could be a problem? A cattle rancher, who grows and stores hay for their herd, salts between layers of baled hay when putting it into the barn, if the bales had gotten rained on. North-Central Idaho