It’s spring in Klamath Falls. Our four feet of snow is gone, and everything has turned green. Hogsback, the hill I can see from my home is developing an emerald cover, which will only last a month or so. The rest of the year it is brown.
We are at 4100 feet above sea level, which means we have a relatively short growing season. We don’t plant until after Memorial Day, and often the first killing frost comes in late August. I planted my tomatoes and peppers and lettuce on Memorial Day weekend – over a week ago. And now, in the first week of June, we are scheduled to have frost every night for a week. Aargh! I’m going to have to cover and uncover as much as I have sheets for, and hope the rest can survive on its own. After our horribly long and snowy winter, this just seems to be adding insult to injury.
Well, sigh, here I go to tend to my garden…
