Baskets

I got a deal on 16-inch Coco Coir (coconut fiber) baskets during Prime Days, so now I have 10 of them. Along with two 12-inch baskets and three hanging geraniums, I potentially have 15 hanging items next year. I put four high hooks in the greenhouse today, so now I have 14 hooks installed. I'm short one hook. There are two cross beams (visible in the photo), higher than the side hooks but lower than the high hooks, so those would pick up the overflow if it occurs. I probably would bump my head on them all the time, but of course the crowding would only occur in April-May. Sometime around the start of June, as many as 10 of the baskets will go outside, both at our house and at the greenhouse.

The Coco Coir baskets are empty for now.

I was looking at the two brackets that are on beams at the back of our house. To date, they have been high enough to keep deer from getting to the geraniums, marigolds and generic petunias we have had there. But if these mutant petunias are as prolific as claimed, I should raise those brackets a foot or two. (I'll also add two brackets in the front and perhaps two more in the back.) I've seen a deer getting up on its hind legs and trying to steal seeds from our bird feeders more than five feet off the ground, and I think I have a trailcam image of it. While I search for that, here's another example. Everything needs to go as high as possible.

The petunia cuttings have been moved to the seed room in the garage. The leaves have spread too much and I've given up on the humidity domes, so will just make sure they remain moist. I forgot to do that with the basil plant in the garage window. It looked very droopy, but after dumping lots of water on it, it looks better six hours later. We have a basil plant in the kitchen, and I still have four plants in a greenhouse planter. I might dig one up tomorrow for another backup, but there is only so much space in our garage.