Early June Washington update

  Hi All,
  It's been a little while since I made an update on my patch and I
figure it's time.  My seeds were transplanted into the garden with cold
frames around them on May 2,  at that time the 469 Hester 97 was the
best plant and the 916 LaRue 97 was next.  Well I had some problems with
what I used for a frame for the Hester and it was blown off twice in
high winds.  By the time I put up the cloches on the 23rd the 916 was
way ahead in devolpment.  Since then both cloches have been blown apart
twice by high winds as fronts came through.  Fortunately there was no
damage to the plants.  Weather has been mainly cool and cruddy with
intermittent warm weather in the low to mid 70's and sunshine.  The 916
is now a gorgeous plant with the main vine being 4 ft long.  some of the
leaves are up to 22 inches across.  The 469 is picking up from its
setback in the cold frame and a little better than half as big as the
916 in leaf size and vine length I still expect good things from it now
that both plants are on even footing as far as thier growing
environment.  Hopefully we can sustain a  
stretch of warm weather and let these babies take off.  My 742 Holland
96 was dug up and passed on to another grower and there is a volunteer
coming up from the compost pile in my yard.  I think I'll let it
continue growing as a backup pollen source.  So far no bugs, no weird
growth, no damage, no complaints.

Chris Michalec
Covington, WA
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