DEFINITELY Zach's fault, Jerry! ROFL!

Laura, since there's nothing else you can do about it--the heat!--anyway, I recommend just hanging in there and wait to see what happens with them. Back when I was still planting peas they did surprisingly well even when it got pretty warm out, but where my peas were planted was on the east end of a two story house, so they were in shade for much of the afternoon--don't know how much or if that helped keep them going! If it stays this warm out you might have a problem, but, odds are that it'll cool off again soon--I hope, 'cause I'm "tired" of the Hot Weather already! And, if you listen to ZACH, we'll probably get a blizzard in the next week or so!

Skybird

05.19.20 @ 2110

We took the plows off the work trucks this week, all day I said “we’re going to make it snow next week.” So if it does, it will definitely be my fault ;p.

My peas aren’t very big, either and I don’t expect a lot out of them at this point. But for me it’s not really the heat that’s getting to everything, it’s the wind. All my chard was girdled from being so violently tossed back and forth and many of the beets suffered the same fate. Not sure how to prevent that.

Despite the effects, it’s hard to complain about a beautiful 90 degree day (even with the wind, which I don’t actually mind all that much, at least it keeps the humidity away).

I've come to the conclusion that along the front range of Colorado isn't a good place to grow peas usually. Last year was fantastic though due to the long cool spring. Most years by the time they start growing in earnest it turns hot. It doesn't stop me from growing them because they are such wonderful treats but I don't have high expectations.

Zach, I imagine dealing with the wind in your area is a challenge. It's been plenty windy here in Westminster also the last couple days but most of the wind here gets blunted by houses and trees. A couple things you could try is using straw or hay bales strategically placed or long term growing some sort of hedge. Good luck.

Snow for the high country tomorrow, and cold stormy weather with lows in the low 40's for the early part of next week down here. I won't be surprised if we hit the 30's here at the house. That's what I get for thinking it was safe to plant this weekend. My peas will be happy though.

We have a windbreak on the north side of the house, but otherwise, I think I will just have to settle for growing for growing horizontal tomatoes. Hey, if you can grow them upside down, why not sideways? Might be hard to trellis them that way though...

Well let me give you a straight answer from just a 100 miles north of the "Pea Capital of the United States." Uh, I dunno. I should be asking about living with that most years - Consider that a Question for Colorado Gardeners. What does well?

Okay, we had some of "Colorado Yo-Yo Temperatures" in 2019, May and June. They ruined my squash and melon and eggplant and pepper year. No question, some of those plants died, all were stunted. Peas did okay - not good - just okay.

I plant more pea seed during the average hottest week of the year for here, and that is the final week of July. The snow peas are especially appreciated in September but those vines hardly need a trellis to climb on.

I would expect stunting. And, I've never thought to blame Zach.

Steve

My powers probably don’t reach all the way up there, Steve haha.

What does well here? Lettuce usually does okay. I can get beans and summer squash and cucumbers to grow most years but outside of that it’s pretty hit or miss in my garden.

digit asked " Consider that a Question for Colorado Gardeners. What does well? "

I've done really well growing all sorts of greens during the cool season though I do have tunnels and a cold frame.

Cucumbers, pole beans, peppers, summer and winter squash always do well. Tomatoes do fair to excellent though a few plants fail miserably every year. The fruit bushes, currants and gooseberries, are doing well but they are something fairly new for me. Onions, garlic, leeks, chives and garlic chives do consistently well. Beets and swiss chard rarely fail. I keep trying okra sometimes it works out. I've done fair growing melons the problem is they all become ready in a short window so this year I'm only growing one type of midget watermelon.

I can only get peppers to do well in containers and then, only the small fruited hot ones like habaneros. Every time I plant peppers in the ground they only get about 10-12” tall and MIGHT produce a fruit or two. The larger fruited ones like poblanos and chilacas always end up with severe blossom end rot when I plant them in containers, too. I actually quit growing sweet peppers a couple years ago since it always felt like an effort in futility. Last year the wind took out all my pepper plants. Every time I went out there more branches had been snapped off. When I lived in Jeffco my peppers were always a “sure bet” and I’ve still got freezer bags of jalapeños and habs in my mom’s freezer, but I won’t be planting any kind of pepper this year. Partly because I didn’t plan early enough to start seeds and partly because of last years experience.

“Fair to excellent” is a good way to put it for tomatoes, Greg. Some years I have so many I end up composting a bunch and other years the harvest is so measly it hardly seemed worth the effort to grow them.

I haven’t grown much winter squash, but the few times I have they were underwhelming, especially considering the amount of space they take up, getting just a single squash for a huge amount of room seemed almost pointless when I could grow entire bushels of something like green beans in the same amount of space. I am growing some short-vine varieties of butternut this year so we will see how they do. maybe I’m just bad at gardening.

Finally growing a bit! I added a sprinkle of Charlie's Compost fertilizer (dried poultry manure), even though peas don't need that much.