Frost

Frost kills and it did last night. Scarlet runner beans are toast. Virginia Creeper is badly damaged. Vincas look very sad. It's June 8th. It was not as cold as this picture shows, but it was cold enough to break a very, very old record.

2 June

What a weird, wonderful set of seasons. Our winter was extraordinarily snowy and spring has been very wet (with an occasion delinquent snow shower). The ground squishes mud under your feet. And in typical Colorado fashion, it should be 82 on Tuesday. I have lots of seeds that seem to be waterlogged and doing nothing, so I guess I'll push more seeds into the mud and hope for the best. The scarlet runner beans, marigolds, and nasturtiums are coming up, but some other "new" plants are hiding in the soil and I'm afraid they have no intention of growing.