Tropical Storm a Comin'

We were going to go up to Montauk today to hang out with my sister's family, but a huge storm is coming into the New York area. Supposedly 5 inches of rain, with crazy winds are supposed to fall in NYC.

We'll that storm has arrived and it is dumping rain right now!

We brought most of the tomato plants inside, with the exception of the Striped Germans. We had originally brought that plant inside too, but there were a lot of bugs in that pot (eek! a spider), which didn't sit too well with the lovely Sarrita, so out it went again (though not with a tantrum by me. i hate doing more work).

Batten down the hatches!

We created a little alcove in the corner of our terrace to shield the plant from the elements by draping a garbage bag over the top of the plant and putting a table in front of it to block the wind.

Tomato Fort

During the initial downpour, the garbage bag tarp wasn't attached to the center support, so it collapsed in on itself, so I ran out into the rain and used one of the large binder clips to tent the tarp so that the water would run off.

The Mighty Binder Clip

We've lost one flower far, but I guess we should've been pinching off those flowers anyways on the SG, since there are some tomato clusters that are collapsing under their own weight on that plant.