Gardening

This year we have 3 gardens; the one at our house, a community garden plot across Broadway, and Rebecca and Russell's front yard.  Last weekend, when Evvie was here, we planted a bunch of seedlings out in cold frames at R&Rs.  It was actually snowing lightly while we did this.

Over the past week, the temperature has gotten hotter and hotter.  Unfortunately, with this garden being a bike ride away, we let some of our little seedling get fried.

This weekend, the temperature soared into the 80s and it's supposed to stay warm through the extent of the extended forecast so we removed all of our cold frames and planted out the rest of our seedlings.  Mark went to a drip irrigation workshop with Evvie and other Mark a couple weeks ago when they were in town; so this weekend we installed a very expensive but very cool drip system at R&Rs.  Luckily, the city of Boulder if offering 50% back on drip irrigation systems. 

 We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, sunflowers, squashes, and peppers.  We bought the pepper seedlings because ours are still tiny, but everything else we started ourselves from seeds. 

 Pickles helped.

Actually, he was so exhausted from playing with Roscoe all morning that he just slept, didn't even touch his delicious raw meaty bone.