80F and "Fair" @ 12:30, calling for a high of 83F for the day. LWS reports that yesterday's high was 86F.
Watered plants on shelves yesterday first thing, they've gotten big enough that most of the remaining tomatoes have to gotten big enough that they have to be watered daily without fail.
Woman is out back weeding the flower bed right now, hope She remembers to water the plants.
Hopper feeder still out of action, mixed up and scattered some seed for the ground feeders though.
After that I started working on taking down the two 16' cattle panels. Got that done and the four 8' remesh panels put up to replace them.
Made trip over to the barn and gathered up the last remaining section of landscape fabric for the easter edge of the garden and hauled that back over along with some hose.
Cages seem to be working so far to keep the deer off of the tomatoes. Most of the Sunny Boys got badly clipped within a day after we planted them before they were caged.
It appears the peppermint extract isn't quite as good as we were hoping it would be ...
But the insect netting over the strawberries is keeping the deer out of those as well ...
After getting the remesh panels wired up and secured I planted 6 (or 8 ?) Crimson Cushion indeterminate tomato plants on the north end of the remesh panel trellis.
Helped Woman tie up one of Her peony plants that was falling over despite having a hoop around it. A couple of those are over 4' tall.
After that I took the Cub up and started mowing the front lawn again, got that almost half done before it got dark out. Left the deck at 3.75". Will finish that up here in a little bit when I head outside.
While I was mowing I noticed that the red maple had gotten blown over and was leaning from the strong storms that came through the other night so I headed down to the house and grabbed a 5' piece of rebar, a hammer, and some some twine and staked it again. Not quite ready to stand on it's own apparently.
Once that was done I came back down and threw some straw around them to mulch the newly planted tomatoes and some fencing/netting over them to keep the deer off them.
Amazon didn't make the delivery of the additional insect netting and staples yesterday (already a day late) ...
... currently shows it's back out on the truck for delivery today ...
Agenda for today:
Finish mowing front.
Maybe mow down around the house as well just to keep on top of it.
Hose off short t-posts for painting, maybe hit them with a wire brush in the grinder after that. Possibly get them primed as well.
Figure out spacing for cattle panel arch trellises.
Found this handy little web app to help with that:
Plus whatever else comes up.
Hope everyone is having a decent Friday ...
