the plum tree war
We love our Royal Mountain Blue Plum Tree. Love love love. Sun warm sweetness, tiny, and gorgeous colors, they are awesome treats come Fall. And living in a zone 4 growing area, […]
View Articledog friendly garden
I love, absolutely positively love early summer mornings. Getting up with the sun and working in my garden almost feels like a guilty pleasure. I hope that feeling never goes away. Visiting […]
View Articleflower super models!
I had a bunch of garden chores to do tonight. I guess I shouldn’t call them chores unless ‘chores’ means favorite thing to do out of the whole day. Spending time in […]
View Articlethe Dandelion, weed or super hero?
In Montana, gardening season is not long if you think in terms of ‘months’, but it is long if you think in terms of ‘day light hours’. From the time the snow […]
View Articlenothing better than a sexy morning garden!
Well it is June in Montana. This might be my favorite gardening month of all. I’m not sure if that is saying something of not, we only have three months that are […]
View ArticleDOGgone Garden!
My oh my. Mother Nature has been good to us so far this gardening season. After a gorgeous long sun day, we had a gentle rain start right at bed time. It […]
View Articlegrowing your own green ‘manure’
Well it isn’t hard to get up early when you know there is a garden waiting for you. I swear, every summer morning, I never get over WANTING to get up and […]
View Articlelavender & dogs
It was an early morning in the gardens, and too pretty of a moment to not stop and take some photos. I have plants in various stages of everything, this is my favorite time. […]
View Articleode to borage & dogs
So this week is perfect, just perfect. Late night rain, cool early mornings, happy garden, and super happy dogs. The sun is making things quite hot during the middle of the day, […]
View Articlesky smoke and water
Well for some reason my dogs and I woke up earlier than usual, la madrugada (the wee hours of the morning before dawn). It could be that our neighbors little chicks are […]
View Articlewhy dog owners should care a whole awful lot about Earth Day, EVERYDAY
So, to start, Happy Earth Day to Everyone! My dogs and I have been out in the garden off an on all morning, gardening, seeding, weeding, pruning, and transplanting. We plant tress every Earth […]
View ArticleDogs and Garden Pollinators
We spend almost all of our days in the garden once the last snow has melted into the earth. My children and dogs have grown up in this environment, and I think look forward to this season as much as...
View Articlesometimes, it’s best to be barefoot and move the hoses yourself
I have a 1/4 acre garden. Not ginormous by any means, but not small either. When you consider that this garden feeds my entire family of four humans for 6 months out of the year, it kind of puts things...
View ArticleThe secret life of squash & my Georgia O’Keeffe hommage
No secret that I do not like this time of year. It is the ‘blowing shit up’ time of year in my mind, nothing to do with Americas Independence. Lots of garden time, hiking time, and inside listening to...
View Articlegrowing your own tap root …
I’ve lived on four continents and have worked in six countries. Where I am right now for sure does not suck, it is gorgeous, but I seriously doubt that it is my resting place. There have been some...
View Articlethe greedy gardener… that would be me!
I put my seeds in the ground in early spring (which is late April where I live). I had little polite seedlings pop up a few weeks later. We covered them with our makeshift portable greenhouse domes....
View Articleseeds and dogs and and and …
I get so excited in the mornings during gardening season. To water or not? To check the soil or pull weeds? Eat some raspberries when passing by, nibble on some sweet basil, eat some more raspberries...
View Articlea green night …
Sundays are my big work day at our facility, puppy play groups and classes for almost ten hours. Super fun day, lots of love, lots of great work, but not a chance of touching my garden until way after...
View ArticlePhytoremediation here we come!
We found that some of the wood containers in one section of our garden might have been leaching something into our soil and plants that I don’t want to have around. Our garden has been chemical free...
View ArticleSpring means LILACS
We are out and about doing this and that pretty much all day long, and loving every minute. For sureContinue reading
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