It's completely cliché, but the weather is crazy lately. Within the past week there was a 500 year flood event in Yellowstone National Park, as well as significant flooding throughout Montana. While we are used to dealing with frost and cold, what is the best way to protect the garden during extreme storm events? Hail, ...
Read More | Pest PatrolWinter finally arrived this week. Today we woke up to a brisk five degrees, a stark difference to last Monday’s record high of 67 degrees with high winds. Grassland fires burned structures and acreage throughout Northcentral Montana, which is unheard of in December. I’m so over it. After a year of drought and fire, this ...
Read More | Pest PatrolI may have grown nearly as many weeds as I have grown flowers. We’ve all smiled at the saying “a weed is a flower in the wrong place”, but sometimes, it really is difficult to decide what’s a weed and what’s NOT a weed. This seems especially true when it is (a) a plant new ...
Read More | Perennials ForeverToday’s blog is going ramble a bit, with the theme, “What is in my yard today?” I’ll follow up on a few previous blogs, and I’ll take you on a tour of weeds, wildflowers, butterflies, and a few random other things I captured with my camera as I wandered my property this afternoon. While it ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalThis spring I have a client that last used my gardening services for their raised vegetable beds two years ago. They did not one bit of work in those 10 beds since I last touched them in October 2015. “Hello, Ellen!” they said. “Yes, well …. We missed the wonderful fresh food that we had ...
Read More | Just VeggiesA weed is an undesirable plant or a plant in an undesirable location. We pull weeds, we spray them, we put down barriers to keep them out. We probably spend a fair amount of time cursing them, mentally, if not out loud. When we moved in, my lawn was composed primarily of sandburs. Every summer ...
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