Gardening in Colorado

Finally, Mother's day has come and gone, now we can plant! That is the rule here in Colorado according to my friend Danyell (who I might add now lives in Panama and can garden year round, the bum!) For Mother's day, Ron is taking me plant shopping this week, I'll let you know what I come up with.

Of course most of us can't wait and buy inappropriate plants when they show up at Home Depot or the garden center and have killed off several rounds of basil or tomatoes by the time June rolls around, I know I usually do. In fact, I bought 2 tomato plants in April, planted them and the next 4 weeks had some snow (the first weekend brought 18"). But I covered them with buckets and they seem to be ok. 1 of them even has a little tomato on it already. They may survive yet. Of course it could also snow some more, so I'll keep those buckets handy.

On Sunday, I did pick some baby greens that I planted before our April snowstorm, they were on the menu last night and they were yummy. I also planted some asparagus and saw a stalk come up, but those pesky rabbits seem to have gotten it, but at least I had proof that it grew. Silly rabbits are also eating all the spinach. I'm looking for a hungry coyote to come and hang in the yard till June to eat the pesky bunnies!