Category: Planning

A lot.  I’m growing a lot from seed this year. Last year, I tried so so so hard to limit the varieties of vegetable and flowers I grew from seed because I didn’t want to overwhelm myself and end up with nothing but failure.  I would say I was pretty successful in this endeavor.  Because I placed restrictions on myself, I got the chance to experiment with different ways of growing plants and figuring out in what conditions they thrived. I kept it simple which allowed me to become more confident as a gardener.  And finally, managing a smaller amount Read More

Spring time in Montana can be a bit maddening.  We don’t have four distinct seasons.  Rather they tend to blur into each other.  And before you fully realize that you’re in summer, it’s already started to fade into fall.  It means I’m going to have to develop a much keener sense of the seasons when thinking about outdoor planting for new growing seasons. As winter fades into spring, we’ve been hit with what I believe is an unprecedented amount of winter storms over the past couple months.  But there was a decent enough break in between them that I was Read More