Well Crud

[Timberline]

Looks like I will have more free time than usual this month. Green beans and potatoes froze last night. My little beans were about 1" to 1 1/2" long. We always freeze by Labor Day, but I have gardened here for 20 years and don't recall freezing this early before. A cold, late spring so the beans got off to a late start as it was. Crud.

Got any ideas what to do with all the time I was going to spend canning beans?

[rider]

it seems to be getting cold early here also on 8-1 it ws 38 degrees here. odd weather all this last week also cool with thunder storms we have had almost 2 inches of rain since thurs. the weather people in billings said this spring that when may is cool and dry that historically the rest of the summer here is cool and wet its been cool not so much wet till this week but usually august for the whole month we might get .10 inch so not sure what winter has in store for us but it cant be too much worse than last years i guess. hoppers have eaten most all of my garden despite my best efforts to keep them out you could use your extra time getting in extra firewood for winter i feel we will need it

[jane2256]

Drive to Denver and visit the farmers markets and buy some from there!

[moldy]

Holy cow! Can I be nosy and ask general area where in CO you are? DH called last night and said my garden had been hit by hail bad, and he wasn't sure how it's gonna come back. We are in NE CO. I'm hoping it comes back a little - we had a lot of sweet corn planted.... sigh. I feel for you. Can you salvage any of it?

[Windy in Kansas]

Originally Posted by Chalk Creek

Got any ideas what to do with all the time I was going to spend canning beans?

Yes I have some ideas but you may not like them. Spend the time writing to Al Gore about your thoughts on global warming.

[Bearfootfarm]

Originally Posted by Windy in Kansas

Yes I have some ideas but you may not like them. Spend the time writing to Al Gore about your thoughts on global warming.

That's the first thing I thought of also

[Farmerwilly2]

It's not called global warming, it's called climate change for government profit and it is characterized by normal to cooler temperatures followed by periods of gorbastic hordes of mush for brains telling us how this is just what they told us, that the warming would make us all colder. Huh?? Anyways, we need to pay the gov't more money to protect us from the warming frosts.

[fixer1958]

Originally Posted by Farmerwilly2

It's not called global warming, it's called climate change for government profit and it is characterized by normal to cooler temperatures followed by periods of gorbastic hordes of mush for brains telling us how this is just what they told us, that the warming would make us all colder. Huh?? Anyways, we need to pay the gov't more money to protect us from the warming frosts.

Something like that.

When I woke up at 7 am this morning it was 80 degrees.
I slept in, I usually get up at 5:30.

[MaineFarmMom]

Originally Posted by Chalk Creek

Got any ideas what to do with all the time I was going to spend canning beans?

Plant cold weather greens.

[Timberline]

Originally Posted by jane2256

Drive to Denver and visit the farmers markets and buy some from there!

Hmm, well I don't go to Denver, at all, period. I just can't stand the traffic, rude people, smog or anything else about.

Have to find a good farmer's market elsewhere and get some beans. I miss my beans!

[Timberline]

Originally Posted by moldy

Holy cow! Can I be nosy and ask general area where in CO you are? DH called last night and said my garden had been hit by hail bad, and he wasn't sure how it's gonna come back. We are in NE CO. I'm hoping it comes back a little - we had a lot of sweet corn planted.... sigh. I feel for you. Can you salvage any of it?

We're at 8,000 feet in Chaffee County. Some of the beans have some green leaves and little beans left. I hope they'll do something. The potato plants are all black. Dug out a big bucket of potatoes this morning. A lot of them are small, but they will be great in stews. The carrots, lettuce, broccoli, beets are fine.