Good morning! What a beautiful day!

I just got in from watering all the gardens and mulching some newly-planting beds. Apparently we’re breaking the heat record set in 1955 with a high of 96 degrees today.

Reminder: Your sprinklers should still be off. Your lawn has received plenty of water in the last few weeks, and if you start giving it water unnecessarily, it will result in weaker, less resilient turf come triple-digit temperatures. If you need help learning how and when to water your lawn, the Lawn Care 101 class is available inside the class library.

You can water your annuals, vegetables, and containers by hand if you don’t have drip irrigation.

The Trouble-Free Tomatoes replay is now available.

To access, log in to your class library, and open the Trouble-Free Tomatoes module.

Leave your questions for me as a comment inside the class or in the “Ask Callie” area. Please watch entire class through before leaving questions. There are printable slide handouts for note-taking in your materials.

Highlights from last night’s class:

• The product that saved my tomatoes from spider mites
• The most disease-resistant tomato varieties of 2026 so far
• How you can stop blossom-end rot without spending a penny

Included materials and resources:

• Demo video of building tomato cages from concrete remesh
• Month-by-month tomato calendar checklist
• Best tomato seed sources
• Guide to Growing Tomatoes in Containers PDF
• Troubleshooting Poor Flowering and Fruiting PDF

Enjoy the rest of your week, and have a great weekend!

CWL