The Glade 4.0

I wish. Denver is a high desert climate. 90% of our precipitation comes in the form of snow between mid October and mid May. We'll almost certainly be rationing this summer.

Anyway, I'll be working in raised beds (Square Foot Gardening) to avoid our cold heavy clay soil. Building this weekend, I'll post pictures when I'm done.

True, I guess you are at 5000 feet. I just automatically think that anyone East of the Rockies is blessed with rain. Good luck with the beds.

I don't know about loquats, Lenas. I don't think we ever got much good fruit off of it, come to think of it.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

So good.

May Update:

It's been a month or so with daily highs in the high 80s to low 90s. The wet season is starting late, afternoon storms are pretty sparse. (Usually, coastal south Florida summers consist of crazy daily downpours and high winds from 2-3pm)

Corn is six and a half feet tall and producing silk/pollen. Have a few tiny cobs starting.

Cucuzza plants are between 4-5 feet tall and I think they'll start flowering soon. They seem to really be loving the heat and sun.

Had a dozen nice big tasty red tomatoes with another two dozen green ones still on the plants. I don't think I'll have enough ripe tomatoes at once to make sauce or do canning, since I only have 8 plants really making tomatoes. Fermented/dried some seeds for the next planting in fall. Going to try to get some to grow in the summer but did not have any luck last year.

Pole beans are at about 4 feet and the beans are starting to get big and fat. The cats decided to climb biggest plant though, so that one's gone.

Watermelon plants are flowering but have not been able to successfully pollenate, the flowers bloom, die, and nothing from there. Don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Datils are about a foot tall, don't know how much longer til I get me some peppers though.

Started basil over from scratch. Onions aren't doing much of anything visible. Leeks got eaten by something. Bell peppers all died off. The arugula is still around 3 inches tall but it's still alive... I'm not sure if I should just give up and eat the 2 whole leafs that took 3 months to grow.

Viney plants refuse to grow up PVC, even with the assistance of lots of ties. Putting in a wooden trellace helped a lot. Next time I'm going to tie a wooden stick or pole to all of the uprights so the plants will latch on to something.

How's everyone else shaping up?

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Our growing season is starting a little late this year, so we just barely got everything planted over the last two weeks or so. It's been on the cold side over the last month or so, and really rainy/wet.

Planted some new rasperries, along with the usual tomatoes, sweet peas, and a couple kinds of peppers. There's also a couple kinds of lettuce, some swiss chard, carrots, onions, garlic and potatoes. I know I'm missing a couple things. Oh, doing some tomatillo plants for the first time, we'll see how those turn out but I'm hopeful. They grow pretty well here from what I understand.

Haven't started the herb garden yet, I'll probably get that in next week after pay day. Going to try some new stuff there as well probably, but I'm not sure what yet. I will go with the usual's there though, basil, cilantro, parsley, oregano. Dug out my mint plants last year as they had overgrown the bed they were in and I never really used them that much.

Oh, have a couple sunflowers, I'm not a big fan but the kids get a kick out of them and my brother-in-law will take any leftover seeds we have. Think we're going to skip the zucchini and pumpkins we usually do, they take up a lot of space and we never seem to get a good yield out of them.

I think that about does it.

<3 My garden ... All 5 acres of it ...

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Do you do all the work in it yourself?

Yes, actually, I do We're speaking about my garden ...

Now if you want to talk about the 65 acres of Sweet Corn, 135 Acres of Soy Beans, and 339 acres of wire grass, that's another matter.

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