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Mother Nature makes a lier out of me again. In my last article I said it was probably okay to start your outdoor gardening. Well, usually by Mothers Day it is okay to put your vegetable gardens in the ground. But apparently not this year,

Spring time in the Rockies…is a beautiful time of year, but we have many wild weather events to deal with. I lost 4 little plants. They get knocked down and/or stripped clean by the hail. Yesterday I was slow to react to the TV weather forecasts. If it rains hard on them it can liquify the soil so that the plants float out or tip over and fall out of the container. Also, if your plants take too much water in their container, the roots get too wet and can drown and rot. With the hail, the leaves get knocked off and/ or the stem takes a hit and is damaged irrepairably.

I got totally soaked twice yesterday as I frantically threw some tarps up to cover the young plants.  We had about two inches of pea sized hail not to mention nine tenths of an inch of hard rain. What a mess. The ground turned into gravy.  Today wil be different.  Plus it has been very sunny this morning. A day of sunlight will fix a lot of hurt.

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I have erected a simple, strong structure in my backyard. I’ve used 10ft x 4in x 4in wooden poles in the ground buried 20 inches deep. So they stick up 8 1/2 feet. I’ve connected them up top with 2×4’s so that I have a rib cage trellis that I can throw tarps upon. I have cubicales, kind of, that are 8 1/2 foot x  91/2 foot square by 8 1/2 foot tall. I have many tarps with grommets around the edges, and I tie them up to the 2x4s up top. Not only can I save the plants from the worst of the rain-hail-wind weather events but I’ll be able to create a dark space in which to “sex my plants” thru light deprivation. During the last 3 weeks of June, I’ll use these tented cubicales to “shed the plants”.

After a couple days of Colorado sunshine, it’ll be time to begin a high nitrogen fertilizer program. I want to let things dry out first.

But for now and tomorrow, all I want is for these plants to dry out and be in the sunlight. Mothers Day is past and Memorial Day Holiday weekend is upon us. This certainly is springtime. There will be plenty of sunlight opportunities for our plants as we head into June and summertime.