Good observation.
In link below, I found this info (and better photos) - “Purslane looks like tiny Jade plants. They serve adequately in salads and some are grown for just that.” (I have no intention of eating it, unless perhaps a local knowledgeable buddy has tried it ahead of me.) Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) - Plants and Animals of Northeast Colorado
It’s purslane. I don’t eat them but know that some people eat them in salad.
Definitely purslane. There are different varieties you can buy or find in your yard. I have two I bought that have gorgeous bright flowers that love the sun.
And yes, some people do pickle purslane!
I had in my herb gardens and it grew like crazy—it was like an invasive. I eventually tore it out.
I didn’t realize that it flowered–looks great in the pot!!
I don’t know that the “weed”
Kind does - but this is definitely marked “purslane” at the garden store - I buy some every year - it likes lots of 
When I remove purslane, I may just try throwing some in a pot where I’ve removed some of the dense flowering plants into the ground.
There is some upside to the heat, it speeds up ripening for blueberries!
Here is most of today’s crop (the first abundant crop this year).
And where some of them came from (some netting can be seen in the background).
Yum - they look beautiful! Do you eat them or freeze them?
I have some netting on order - I planted strawberries for the first time and two were JUST ABOUT ripe when some yard friend decided to eat them! I hope the mesh will help.
In a good year we eat them, freeze them, cook with them, and I have make blueberry vodka and blueberry gin.
I would be happy to hear of other ideas regarding what to do with blueberries.
We have ten large highbush blueberry plants which are enclosed in what I call “Fort Blue”. Fort Blue is surrounded by a low 1/2 inch mesh hardware cloth fence, a bit more than a foot high, that is buried a few inches deep. I step over it. Then there is a netting over the whole thing (which goes down to the low fence, and which I move aside for access). Then there is an electric fence along the bottom to discourage mice from climbing over the 1/2 inch mesh lower part of the fence. Then the more heavy bearing plants are covered by mesh bags. Some years this mostly works. Some years it mostly fails. So far this year Fort Blue seems to be holding, but it is very early in the blueberry season. In those years where Fort Blue keeps the criminals (mice and chipmunks) away we have lots of berries.
Then we also have a few smaller plants (low growing varieties) which are protected by individual cages. In the years when Fort Blue does not hold and this is all we have, we just eat them.
We had something (mice and/or chipmunks) burrow under the frame that the mesh was on this year, and take almost all of our strawberries.
We def have chipmunks in the yard.
Your set up is impressive!! 
We have a pesky deer with a damaged leg that hangs around our area. It learned to get on the deck and one day last year decimated the tomato garden on that part of the deck! 
My container variety of cucumbers has been producing very tasty, crunchy cucumbers! I will be planting it again next year. The container zucchini was disappointing though. I will stick with the regular kind. Still no ripe tomatoes,
as it is typical for our neck of the woods.
If anyone is wondering what cucumbers I grew…
I will have to check my variety - it’s very similar to these!!
