Supposedly the cooler sub-zone of 5, but I know better! Anything perennial that goes in is rated Zone 3/4, to make sure it survives...and 4 doesn’t always.
Got my carrots, beets, and leeks replanted. Also planted 2 varieties of bush beans & a hill of yellow straight neck. No long season stuff at all is going in.
We even had a lot of winter kill on our established elderberries this winter. very little leafing on a disheartening number of dead branches, but lots of new shoots coming from the roots.
I put in our potatoes around the new moon in early May in high 70s weather; then we got unseasonable heavy snows & a hard freeze, as opposed to frost. Well, today, about 6 weeks later, I counted 22 just coming up, out of the 90+ planted. Thought for sure I had lost all of them.
No gardening this week or next ( I have Sun-Mon off) Tomorrow, we’re driving to Denver for the night—about a 7 hour drive. Monday morning we’ll drop a hyperthyroid kitty at the specialists for a radioiodine treatment, and leave her there for the week of legally required isolation.
We’ll then stop at Lowe’s in Cheyenne on the way home, to pick up the new washer we bought tonight. Ours ground it’s way through it’s last load today, when the transmission began slipping. We’ve had it over 15 years.
Next Sunday, I’ll repeat the trek down, and pick her up that Monday, and bring her home. ~95% chance of full cure with the one treatment. Time & labs will tell. At least it doesn’t seem to be malignant, but a benign tumor that sends her hormone levels literally off the chart. Meanwhile, that same Monday, the wife will be getting a checkup of her own in Rapid City.
Wishing both of your ‘pets’ a clean bill of health!
And a lot of things are going to be a bust for me this season, what with our wild temperature swings and too much rain.
But, I know where the grocery store is, LOL!