Good morning gardeners. The San Marzano tomato plants are definitely dead. The brandywines and one sweet 100's are doing fine. I'll just reseed another sweet 100 or two if they don't have individual plants at the nursery I'm going to later. The potatoes still look a bit rough but they will bounce back. It really could have been worse. I'm going to work on the new garden bed later this morning. The weather folks are promising a big rain tomorrow so I want to fill in some spots along the fence line to keep the rain from gushing down hill through the garden bed. Hopefully we get enough rain to test my fixes out. As for squirrels in the peach tree @Sueby and @BReeder! Never had a problem really. There a few that were munched on laying on the ground, but nothing apparent in the tree itself. However, there is a lilac shrub growing close to the peach tree so perhaps that was a deterrent. Nothing really bothers the blueberry bushes on the other side of shrub either. Occasional birds maybe. It took a lot longer to finish up the weed whacking in the front yard yesterday so I only got the weed whacking finished in the backyard. I still need to mow, however the grass is so uneven I thought I would wait to mow that after the rain on Saturday. I really need to mow the chicken yard so hopefully I can knock that out tomorrow morning before the rain starts. I think going to the expense of raising the height on your garden beds is a great idea @Sueby. Go for it.
I left my soaker hose out last winter on the strawberries knowing that I wouldn't be able to get it out this spring, I was hoping it would survive the winter but it didn't. Turned it on last night & split bad & is unusable. Oh well.
If anyone has already made tomato cages out of new wood, pallet wood, or reclaimed wood, and has any lessons learned, I'm asking for your experience in what works and what does not. Thanks.
