That looks like a spring season list, Barb.

I imagine that it depends a lot on when the heat of summer is really bearing down on the garden and what that amounts to. For example, I have planted beet seeds in summer and the tiny plants were so challenged that they never grew to usable size. Here's a map from the Weather Service that I put on RMG a few years ago:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4059075/when-is-your-average-o-hottest-day-of-the-year#n=6

As you can see, up there near the 49 th parallel and ID/WA, my hottest days are the last few in July and the first few in August. That doesn't leave me much time for plants if cold weather and frost arrive in mid-September. I have had fairly good luck planting snow peas during those hot days and bok choy a week or two later. The cool weather will slow everything down and they often just stop at the time of first frost, even though it won't kill these plants.

Lettuce comes to a screeching stop. Soooo, I found a little Batavian lettuce seed for the garden, yesterday! That's a real trial as is the amaranth seed that went in, also. Amaranth definitely doesn't like cold weather and I have planted it too early several times. Let's see how it does with nothing but hot conditions for the next few weeks.

Right now, there is bush bean seed where some of the onions were harvested. I think that pulling the peas may be difficult since they are late this year and gave us the biggest harvest of snap peas, yesterday. The beans are what usually follows the peas. I will have too much ground for bok choy when those peas go!

Steve

After I pulled the garlic I planted okra, beets, basil, garlic chives, peas, radish carrots, buckwheat and a small strip of a cover crop mix.. Also transplanted in a volunteer tomato which is really taking off. Mostly small sections of each with taller stuff on the north side.

Have another small bed where I had some peas still hanging around that I just pulled out. Time to dig through the seed stash.

I have early wonder beets that I will check on in a month or less and replant if they are ready, I also planted pickling cucumbers on July 3rd. we will see if they will produce anything before our first frost. I also planted more zinnias and some cosmos.

DeZi Lo, the last few years I have regularly planted cucumbers about this time of year. They went in the middle of the onion bed after some selective harvesting to give them some room. Its worked every time.

That wasn't the technique this year and that may have been a mistake. The late Lemon Cucumbers are not out there in 2020. Others may "play out" if we have a long season.

Having more cucumbers than are what are out there didn't seem to make sense. If they continue growing like they are presently, I don't know what I will do with them!

Steve

@Digit, it was a trial but all my seeds I planted sprouted. I just thinned them out. Hopefully will get enough to make a batch of spicy pickles 🙂. I'm cutting it close to the end of our growing season.

digit said: "I found a little Batavian lettuce seed for the garden, yesterday! That's a real trial as is the amaranth seed that went in, also. Amaranth definitely doesn't like cold weather and I have planted it too early several times. Let's see how it does with nothing but hot conditions for the next few weeks."

Well, the lettuce transplants are now here and there in the gardens. Let's hope that they are hidden from the ravenous English Sparrows here at home. That will be something new for this season - un-bird-chewed lettuce.

The amaranth seedlings made an appearance and have just sat there through hot days, making no growth. Zero. Apparently, they can grow in neither cold nor heat. I know that they are not frost hardy but the tiny plants look like they are days old and certainly not like they have been above ground for a month. The amaranth will have to shift into a higher gear at some point for this to have been a successful trial.

We have a harvest of the second June-sown amaranth right now. That might be all there is for 2020. Lettuce, we will see.

Steve

Hi folks! I sowed carrots and several types of greens directly in my beds about 3 weeks ago. I don’t see signs of the carrots, but the lettuce has come up and is slowwwly growing in the shade of the tomato and squash plants.

Now, I have an unrelated question: How can I start I start a new discussion thread here in the Rocky Mountain Gardening forum? I can’t for the life of me figure it out! I can post in bigger forums here on Houzz, including Landscape Design, but cannot figure out how to post in this particular forum. 🤔

@Denverish Z6A,
if you go to the top of this post click on the tab Rocky Mountain Gardening and then it will take you to the home page to ask a question. I think when you hit next you can add your categories and just search for where you want your post to be.

@DeZi Lo, I have tried to do that umpteen times, to no avail. Rocky Mountain Gardening does not show as an option for me to select in the list of categories, nor does it show up when I search for a category. I feel a bit crazy not being able to figure this out! Haha

Hi Denverish! Welcome to RMG!

I think this is what you're already doing, but if you go to the top of the main RMG page, right above Rocky Mountain Gardening, it says, "what are you working on?'

Click on "start a discussion" and then enter your topic and whatever you want to say--we don't limit our discussions to purely gardening around here--sometime we do birds and various and sundry other miscellaneous topics!

Then click "next," and where is says "choose topics," the "default" is RMG, and it already shows up at the very top (with an x after it in case you want to remove it) so you don't need to find RMG in the "list," it's already there. Just leave it there and click post unless you want to add other forums.

Having said all that, for the last "several" months, houzz has been doing some strange--and often not helpful--things around here, and sometimes things on the site work for me and sometimes they don't! So if RMG isn't already at the top of the "choose topics" page, I'm not sure what to tell you! If you're able to post on existing threads, which you can obviously do, I don't see why that part wouldn't be working for you.

See if any of that helps,

Skybird

M August 18, 2020 @ 1616 MDT

@Skybird - z5, Denver, Colorado Well, that did not work on the iPhone app, but I deleted the app and now I can post in this forum using my browser. Tagging also apparently works in the browser as well, yay!

Thanks for the warm welcome, y’all!!

I have edited my original question about vines for my pergola and posted it here as a new thread.