Get your gardening game plan together and dig in Durango, Colorado Currently Mon 30% chance of precipitation 17% chance of precipitation 1% chance of precipitation By Darrin Parmenter Director and horticulture agent Monday, May 3, 2021 4:48 AM Toggle font size Escuchar en Español: Loading the Español audio player... For many gardeners, like myself, springtime is that opportunity to rub some sleep out of our eyes, sharpen our tools, do a couple of stretches on a mat calling it yoga and start getting our hands dirty. Despite the incessant winds, occasional hail/snow storm and freezing temperatures, we seek out the young tender weeds, hoping that they come out of the ground more easily than they will in a couple of months; we turn compost and over-wintered leaves into the garden, always spying for the earthworms and roly-polies; and we set out our seeds for the vegetable garden with the renewed hopes that this will be the year that the flea beetles are absent, the last freeze arrives sometime before the first of June and the tomatoes actually turn red.