It looks great, digit! We've had wind too, but with temps in the 90's. The heat is on here. We're getting a little break this weekend - 87 today, 81 tomorrow, but mid 90's coming back the middle of next week.

We got 3 inches of rain in May. That helped get much of the front range out of drought, but it looks like we're in for a dry spell.

It looks like you're off to a good start this year!

Barb

Barb, I said that the quiet day Thursday was the end of our windy days, yesterday morning. By afternoon, it was really apparent that I had it wrong! We did get a nice downpour along in there. I didn't feel the need to run sprinklers in the garden. In fact, I stayed outta them and outta that wind, completely!

At least, we aren't getting wind and HEAT! (Today was cool but much nicer :o)

Sometime tomorrow afternoon, I should be out in the other corner of the big veggie garden. If'n I can get a good shot of my potatoes without including how I've neglected keeping up with the pea trellis, I will try to show that west end of things. Above, was the east end. Then, there are some flowers! But ... wowing you with the dahlias will have to wait.

Steve

The potatoes are doing okay at the west end of the garden extension. And, by just showing that end of the pea trellis, it doesn't look like the peas have been neglected. It's the other half of the trellis where the recently tied top string is about a week late. Oh well, I think their vining can deal with it.

The scraggly things beyond are in my tomato patch. It's great seeing that none have died or been having too hard a time.

My experiment direct-sowing Coyote tomato seeds may be a bust. I see only a few tiny volunteers of any tomato variety around the garden. Coyote volunteers would come through with ripe fruit the last 2 years. It looks like the sown seed may yet have time or I'll just be guessing where they might have volunteered.

Steve

Yesterday morning:

Steve

The camera angle is about the same from the first picture, 3 weeks ago.

I wanted to point out the small transplants near the lower right corner. Zucchini! I have more Jackpot with new-to-me Garden Spineless and Cube of Butter. For the last several years I have fit them between the early cabbage plants about this time of year. It has worked! (That cabbage won't have many more weeks left.)

It's worked but sometimes the early-planted zucchini has soldiered on until first frost. Only a couple of seasons has powdery mildew been so bad that those May zucchini plants have had to be pulled. The more common scenario: ... a hUgE amount of zucchini in September!

You should know that we haven't had a particularly early first frost in recent years, or I've been able to stave it off by running the sprinklers. Frost will cut short this very late planting of zucchini but they haven't failed to produce fruit since I've started doing this.

Steve