2015 Gardens

[taldesta]

Thanks Cate ... yes, great to have the nest low enough to have the occasional peek into it. Do you garden?

I have enjoyed two very interesting overnight camps in Montana - one at the Fresno Dam (W of Havre) and one near West Glacier. Do I recall accurately that the licence plates there read "Big Sky Country"?

Susan

 

[BenchCo Spydermade]

Thanks Cate ... yes, great to have the nest low enough to have the occasional peek into it. Do you garden?

I have enjoyed two very interesting overnight camps in Montana - one at the Fresno Dam (W of Havre) and one near West Glacier. Do I recall accurately that the licence plates there read "Big Sky Country"?

Susan

Love the robins eggs susan! There's something so symbolic about a robins eggs in particular to me for some reason. Pre colored easter eggs! We have these little birds that perch on the power line near my porch. My lady friend calls them the gardens "board of directors".

 

[taldesta]

Hi BenchCo Spydermade ... earlier on this spring I had a flightless robin nestling on the ground ... trying to protect from my pups .... wanting to ensure parent birds remained involved ... screamed at and retreated for their self-care ... still don't know the outcome but have no body to haunt me. ??

Presently, the mother robin and I have fallen to a rhythm on the nest. I know my boundaries and to me they are chiselled in stone. I may leave the property and not come back.

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Thanks Cate ... yes, great to have the nest low enough to have the occasional peek into it. Do you garden?

I have enjoyed two very interesting overnight camps in Montana - one at the Fresno Dam (W of Havre) and one near West Glacier. Do I recall accurately that the licence plates there read "Big Sky Country"?

Susan

Dear Susan,

You're welcome.

Sometimes, the license plates have or had Big Sky or the Treasure State on them. You can pick a standard background and put your own 'name' on them shy of a few restrictions. Our older MT plates where we had one 'personal custom name tag' and one regular one had Big Sky on them. Our newer plates which we just renewed with a 'sticker only' (Not personal custom made ones.) have Treasure State on them and it is on a blue background. Kind of like the old deeper blue that you used to see on some MI, PA, etc. plates a long, long time ago. I do not know what those states have now or for antique plates.

You can pick your special names AND order one of many, many vanity plates where the money goes towards a college, park system, etc. too.

I do not know what the MT plates looked like before the summer of 2002 before I moved out here. We were thinking of getting the Montana State Parks, Bob Marshall Wilderness or Glacier National Park plates this year but in the end - we just kept the plain blue ones, got new stickers and we did not even have a special name put on them as we did in the past.

I do not have a garden here in town now. I may still get a few potted vegetable plants and put them on the porch deck though. I have some other things out there now but they are not vegetables. Two lilacs and a blue spruce evergreen 'bush' not the tall Colorado blue spruce trees, etc. like I had back east. They are potted and I may plant them here if I do some SOLID fencing or if I buy another piece of land and build a small cabin.

I had a small garden here (MT) for about two years when I built this house. The DEER and other wildlife ATE and destroyed MORE of my FORMER landscaping and garden HERE than I ever, ever had back in farm/lake country (Great Lakes region.) where I lived with my late husband. I had one acre among many hundreds of acres of farmland all around me. The hundreds of acres of farm land was not our own land since we only had one acre in the middle of it all. The animals ate the crops instead!

They never totally destroyed what I had growing up on the East Coast either like I have seen here out west. Our back yard was fenced. We had a huge park across from our house too.

Out here, they ATE my deer resistant (NOT!) plantings not just vegetables including MY roses - thorns and all, lilacs, other bushes, trees, etc. They still eat what is planted behind my water rights ditch but THAT STUFF is NOT totally destroyed or eaten up! I did not plant that. It was here and I brought it all back to life and cleaned it up a LOT. Go figure! This subdivision used to be a small ranch. I have a small lot but not super tiny here. There is a very small ranch with a few cattle 2 houses away from me heading east here in this subdivision in town.

Most likely, IF I do fence the back yard (I have been debating about this for a couple of years!) which is in front of the water rights ditch that leads to many, many acres of a no build zone all of the way down, down and down to the CF river... I will plant a real garden or plant some vegetables in POTS, plant my lilacs, other shrubs and a few trees in the ground. I lost a LOT of what I did plant here a few years ago to the deer and other wildlife. It made me SICK! I never had that kind of a LOSS ever even during bitter winters back in the Great Lakes region. And I had a lot of wildlife and DEER around me too!

I live in a 'bear corridor zone' and we have all kinds of animals here even in TOWN plus mountain lions, eagles, osprey, other birds, white tail and a few mule deer, grouse, pheasant, turkeys sometimes, many ducks, many geese, raccoons, etc. Most likely, I left something out. Mountain lions are common here IN town, a couple of blocks away, in my back yard sometimes drinking from the water ditch and in that NO build zone where the deer and other animals hang out.

I had more ROBINS, blue birds, blue jays, cardinals, etc. back in farm/lake country and on the east coast than what I see out here. My husband said that since I live in town now compared to the Sapphire Mountains on a private ranch (Camped and in a tiny log cabin for one year butt up to wilderness.) when I first moved out here that the feral and 'house' cats that are let out have eaten more birds compared to what he remembered as a kid. Some birds native to my former state do not live out here (?) or maybe they are just few and far between. I am NO expert on birds but I know the basic ones. We had bald eagles back there (East) but I did not see the many, many golden eagles as I do out here especially on the other side of the Continental Divide. I have NO idea if Golden Eagles lived back there but I know that regular bald eagles did close to the rivers and lake. It was a big thing if a nest was found close to my former rural home. In the news and watched over carefully.

My husband would know about Havre and the 'hi or high line'. I never stayed over there. He was born and raised in Montana. He lived in Harlem, MT (NOT the one in NY!) which is on the hi line (?) for only a couple of years as a very young boy while his late Dad taught on the reservation up there. I had a RR friend (BNSF) on some old gun boards who lived in the Havre area. He lived in town and had a small ranch too. I lost contact with many of those people when my late husband was dying of cancer and after he died.

Glacier and all over there is a nice area for sure!

I usually go up to the 'Yaak' region right below British Columbia in NW Montana. Federal land. I go to a few state parks and other federal land all over on this side of the continental divide. I like the Seeley Lake and Flathead Lake area too.

We plan on going to Glacier again this year. I like Glacier more than Yellowstone although I do LIKE YNP a lot. We want to visit the Tetons too.

Did you ever go to Acadia NP in Maine or to the Smokies before high season or tourist time? You would love Acadia and all around up there. I can't name all of the places but I did enjoy Maine a LOT and our time with old friends up there.

I would like to visit all over Canada. You have a beautiful country from what I have seen on the news, in books, films and online. I like many, many things about Canada and have for years too. I was only there once just barely over the old A. Bridge in Michigan after watching some old boat races in the early or middle 70's with my late husband and some friends. Over the bridge and back! Ha ha. Our friend was driving.

What is really funny is that I spend a lot of time right below Canada out here (MT) and I almost bought a piece of land out here on the border (MT and/or in ID) and one in Maine with my late husband many years ago. We used to sail AND power boat all over in the Great Lakes region close to Canada too.

I still have an old nest in my pear tree not in the crabapple trees on my grass - boulevard area from last year. I have to tip toe to look inside of it. There were robins in that one. I have not seen any of the woodpeckers nests out back but my husband told me that he saw two different types of them common to this area. I see them fly and peck on the old trees, fallen logs and natural brush back there.

I did have more bird nests from various species back east in the boonies though.

Thanks again for your beautiful pictures and thanks to everyone else here too.

Please excuse my long ramble here. I guess it is allowed in this section according to the forum rules. Grin.

Sincerely,

Cate

 

[taldesta]

Wow Cate, sounds like your home, 'in town', is on a wilderness corridor! We know we are in nature's path and that we are the interlopers. Despite our efforts to take it all over, we observe, appreciate and accommodate nature to our best. You are an observer in detail and I appreciate the information ... and when travelling in varying locals, I try to take it all in, which is impossible in a short time. Thanks for filling in lots of missing details.

Container and all types of garden possibilities, especially low care, are of high interest to me. Produce is necessary and tasty; time is gold!

Cate, feel free to email me, Montana travels have been so enjoyable. Susan

 

[taldesta]

I drive by to go to town but rarely maintain the entry garden ... fear of upsetting the nesting robin

The veg garden progresses ... and I plant a lot of sunny faced annuals to add to the surprise ! Blooms to follow

 

[22-rimfire]

Looks good. I very much like to plant annual flowers in the garden as it adds a lot of personal interest and the soil is often better than the typical flower bed because you pay more attention to the garden soils with amendments (or at least I do).

 

[BenchCo Spydermade]

Dear Susan,

You're welcome.

Sometimes, the license plates have or had Big Sky or the Treasure State on them. You can pick a standard background and put your own 'name' on them shy of a few restrictions. Our older MT plates where we had one 'personal custom name tag' and one regular one had Big Sky on them. Our newer plates which we just renewed with a 'sticker only' (Not personal custom made ones.) have Treasure State on them and it is on a blue background. Kind of like the old deeper blue that you used to see on some MI, PA, etc. plates a long, long time ago. I do not know what those states have now or for antique plates.

You can pick your special names AND order one of many, many vanity plates where the money goes towards a college, park system, etc. too.

I do not know what the MT plates looked like before the summer of 2002 before I moved out here. We were thinking of getting the Montana State Parks, Bob Marshall Wilderness or Glacier National Park plates this year but in the end - we just kept the plain blue ones, got new stickers and we did not even have a special name put on them as we did in the past.

I do not have a garden here in town now. I may still get a few potted vegetable plants and put them on the porch deck though. I have some other things out there now but they are not vegetables. Two lilacs and a blue spruce evergreen 'bush' not the tall Colorado blue spruce trees, etc. like I had back east. They are potted and I may plant them here if I do some SOLID fencing or if I buy another piece of land and build a small cabin.

I had a small garden here (MT) for about two years when I built this house. The DEER and other wildlife ATE and destroyed MORE of my FORMER landscaping and garden HERE than I ever, ever had back in farm/lake country (Great Lakes region.) where I lived with my late husband. I had one acre among many hundreds of acres of farmland all around me. The hundreds of acres of farm land was not our own land since we only had one acre in the middle of it all. The animals ate the crops instead!

They never totally destroyed what I had growing up on the East Coast either like I have seen here out west. Our back yard was fenced. We had a huge park across from our house too.

Out here, they ATE my deer resistant (NOT!) plantings not just vegetables including MY roses - thorns and all, lilacs, other bushes, trees, etc. They still eat what is planted behind my water rights ditch but THAT STUFF is NOT totally destroyed or eaten up! I did not plant that. It was here and I brought it all back to life and cleaned it up a LOT. Go figure! This subdivision used to be a small ranch. I have a small lot but not super tiny here. There is a very small ranch with a few cattle 2 houses away from me heading east here in this subdivision in town.

Most likely, IF I do fence the back yard (I have been debating about this for a couple of years!) which is in front of the water rights ditch that leads to many, many acres of a no build zone all of the way down, down and down to the CF river... I will plant a real garden or plant some vegetables in POTS, plant my lilacs, other shrubs and a few trees in the ground. I lost a LOT of what I did plant here a few years ago to the deer and other wildlife. It made me SICK! I never had that kind of a LOSS ever even during bitter winters back in the Great Lakes region. And I had a lot of wildlife and DEER around me too!

I live in a 'bear corridor zone' and we have all kinds of animals here even in TOWN plus mountain lions, eagles, osprey, other birds, white tail and a few mule deer, grouse, pheasant, turkeys sometimes, many ducks, many geese, raccoons, etc. Most likely, I left something out. Mountain lions are common here IN town, a couple of blocks away, in my back yard sometimes drinking from the water ditch and in that NO build zone where the deer and other animals hang out.

I had more ROBINS, blue birds, blue jays, cardinals, etc. back in farm/lake country and on the east coast than what I see out here. My husband said that since I live in town now compared to the Sapphire Mountains on a private ranch (Camped and in a tiny log cabin for one year butt up to wilderness.) when I first moved out here that the feral and 'house' cats that are let out have eaten more birds compared to what he remembered as a kid. Some birds native to my former state do not live out here (?) or maybe they are just few and far between. I am NO expert on birds but I know the basic ones. We had bald eagles back there (East) but I did not see the many, many golden eagles as I do out here especially on the other side of the Continental Divide. I have NO idea if Golden Eagles lived back there but I know that regular bald eagles did close to the rivers and lake. It was a big thing if a nest was found close to my former rural home. In the news and watched over carefully.

My husband would know about Havre and the 'hi or high line'. I never stayed over there. He was born and raised in Montana. He lived in Harlem, MT (NOT the one in NY!) which is on the hi line (?) for only a couple of years as a very young boy while his late Dad taught on the reservation up there. I had a RR friend (BNSF) on some old gun boards who lived in the Havre area. He lived in town and had a small ranch too. I lost contact with many of those people when my late husband was dying of cancer and after he died.

Glacier and all over there is a nice area for sure!

I usually go up to the 'Yaak' region right below British Columbia in NW Montana. Federal land. I go to a few state parks and other federal land all over on this side of the continental divide. I like the Seeley Lake and Flathead Lake area too.

We plan on going to Glacier again this year. I like Glacier more than Yellowstone although I do LIKE YNP a lot. We want to visit the Tetons too.

Did you ever go to Acadia NP in Maine or to the Smokies before high season or tourist time? You would love Acadia and all around up there. I can't name all of the places but I did enjoy Maine a LOT and our time with old friends up there.

I would like to visit all over Canada. You have a beautiful country from what I have seen on the news, in books, films and online. I like many, many things about Canada and have for years too. I was only there once just barely over the old A. Bridge in Michigan after watching some old boat races in the early or middle 70's with my late husband and some friends. Over the bridge and back! Ha ha. Our friend was driving.

What is really funny is that I spend a lot of time right below Canada out here (MT) and I almost bought a piece of land out here on the border (MT and/or in ID) and one in Maine with my late husband many years ago. We used to sail AND power boat all over in the Great Lakes region close to Canada too.

I still have an old nest in my pear tree not in the crabapple trees on my grass - boulevard area from last year. I have to tip toe to look inside of it. There were robins in that one. I have not seen any of the woodpeckers nests out back but my husband told me that he saw two different types of them common to this area. I see them fly and peck on the old trees, fallen logs and natural brush back there.

I did have more bird nests from various species back east in the boonies though.

Thanks again for your beautiful pictures and thanks to everyone else here too.

Please excuse my long ramble here. I guess it is allowed in this section according to the forum rules. Grin.

Sincerely,

Cate

Hardly a rant, more like a pleasant nature narrative. Thanks for posting

I drive by to go to town but rarely maintain the entry garden ... fear of upsetting the nesting robin

The veg garden progresses ... and I plant a lot of sunny faced annuals to add to the surprise ! Blooms to follow

Susan, maintained or not, entry garden looks lush and welcoming!

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Wow Cate, sounds like your home, 'in town', is on a wilderness corridor! We know we are in nature's path and that we are the interlopers. Despite our efforts to take it all over, we observe, appreciate and accommodate nature to our best. You are an observer in detail and I appreciate the information ... and when travelling in varying locals, I try to take it all in, which is impossible in a short time. Thanks for filling in lots of missing details.

Container and all types of garden possibilities, especially low care, are of high interest to me. Produce is necessary and tasty; time is gold!

Cate, feel free to email me, Montana travels have been so enjoyable. Susan

Susan,

Thanks and I will email you soon.

Here is one example to you now. The Rattlesnake Wilderness trailhead is LESS than 5 miles from my house here in town. You can bike, hike or drive to many, many places not far from this college town and be in some type of forest, natural area or in a 'true designated wilderness area'. It depends on what you are looking for.

There was a wilderness designated area where I used to live way, way up in the Sapphire Mountains on a private ranch. You could SPIT, no offense, or take a few steps from the creek and be in a wilderness area. You could only hike in or ride in with a horse or mule within the wilderness area. On the private ranch which was 'butt up' to the wilderness, there were two roads into it off of a winding, mountain road. I could explain some more to you about my time up there but it would derail the thread. People said that I should write a book about my year up there when I used to talk/write about it. I may just write about all of it one of these days... I have a lot of stories that I saw up close and personal and so did my friends. I have a lot of stories since I moved out here and many from back east too.


Container pots especially with this SOIL HERE (Ugh!) no matter how you BUILD IT UP is the way to go FOR ME plus it is easier to maintain. It conserves water better and I even like it better than RAISED BEDS using various wooden designs. Old fashioned in the ground gardens which I am used to back in farm/lake country and growing up on the East Coast is a whole other matter because this SOIL is not great. I know that sounds biased but it is NOT rich, black, healthy, etc. SOIL like many of us are used to dealing with! Apples and oranges! My opinion and my MT husband told me the same thing and he was born and raised in this town shy of a couple of years over by the reservation (Havre.) when his late Dad taught school there. I never LIVED with this type of soil so it takes getting used to especially when you use SEED for some things too. That is another story which I will not go into now. Ha!

Many of the crops that they grow out here are different due to the climate, of course, especially on large and I mean LARGE ranches. It takes a LOT more land here as I saw in Colorado and Wyoming to FEED ONE ANIMAL - grazing and even with supplemental food. Cattle and sheep. I always thought that was kind of blown up TALK until I saw it first hand even though I knew/know old ranchers and farmers. I knew some LONG BEFORE I moved out here and I know some through my husband too. I lived in farm country for over 30 years too.

There is an owl hooting out back now. Old Indian folklore says one thing and other stories tell another thing. Hhhmmm.

I may be able to dig up some OLD pictures of my time in the mountains with the big horn sheep, goats, etc. I do not have the pictures of the TWO MOOSE up there. I saw my first RUNNING black bear by Grizzly Creek which was not too far from where I lived and camped for that one year.

There are many bear stories around here and especially one up in the Yaak when I scattered my late husband's ashes too. That BIG black bear was colored BROWN and he was BIG! Oh my - I asked God for a SIGN and I got it. It still touches my heart, soul, brain and brings tears to my eyes after all of these years. Too long to go into now.

Lots of elk stories out here. I had some in Colorado while I was taking pictures of something else in RMNP and turned around and here came a herd of elk. Oh my!

My MT husband told me that I bring him good luck when it comes to seeing so many animals on a DRIVE, WALK, FISHING OR CAMPING TRIP.

My late husband used to say that too. My late husband did not hunt and he had nothing against it. I do not hunt and I have nothing against hunting.

My MT husband hunts and tells me that he sees so much of x, y and z even OUT OF SEASON when he is not hunting when he is with me that it is unreal sometimes. Plus on one day, we saw 7 bears and we call it the 7 bear day. He does not hunt bear but he told me that in HIS ENTIRE LIFE IN MONTANA... he never saw 7 bears in one day in x amount of HOURS as he did with me on that one day!

Well, I rambled on again. Ha ha. That owl is something else back there. I can't tell if there is only one or two of them now.

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

I drive by to go to town but rarely maintain the entry garden ... fear of upsetting the nesting robin

The veg garden progresses ... and I plant a lot of sunny faced annuals to add to the surprise ! Blooms to follow

Susan,

Woo hoo!

How TALL is your garden fence in this one picture?

Beautiful pictures!

I love your rocks too! I LOVE ROCKS and BOULDERS as much as I love seashells and driftwood!

Your SOIL, plantings and general water-humidity look very good and HEALTHY to me.

It looks 'normal' and what I am used to and lived with for most of my life.

I love your flag too!

Go Canada! Go USA!

I love your dog crossing sign too. I had a German Shepherd one and a MOOSE crossing one years ago.

I have had three Cocker Spaniels in my life, one GS/collie dog - pound puppy, three full blooded German Shepherd dogs and another 'pound puppy' which turned out to be a Samoyed with no papers. I am not counting my late husband's GS dog imported from Germany that he got before he went to Nam and all around the world. My dogs were not imported.

Up on Angel Island in the BULL LAKE AREA close to Troy, MT... they fly the Canadian and US flags by their fire house - BRIDGE going onto the island.

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Looks good. I very much like to plant annual flowers in the garden as it adds a lot of personal interest and the soil is often better than the typical flower bed because you pay more attention to the garden soils with amendments (or at least I do).

I agree with this too.

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Bench Co. S. said what I could not get out in his one post too.

LUSH and welcoming... those are two words that describe Susan's entry garden!

Thank you!

Cate

 

[taldesta]

Looks good. I very much like to plant annual flowers in the garden as it adds a lot of personal interest and the soil is often better than the typical flower bed because you pay more attention to the garden soils with amendments (or at least I do).

Yes, I treat the veg garden soil to restore it - every year I try to get at least some sheep manure plus most of the ready compost I have on hand worked into the garden soil. (compost is part of what lures the pups) I haven't seen mushroom compost but will look for some.

I don't find the soil looks rich but it does grow well. Right now I am also testing creeping thyme in the veg garden as well - as a ground cover for elsewhere in the yard (solid, pest free but a little slow growing)

You mentioned tomato cages made of concrete wire. Is that the reinforcing wire grid, strong stuff? Were they available or did you put them together for your own use?




Cate,

Outer garden fence is only about 2 ft. high and the inner a little over 1 ft. The pups are very compliant, even with a modest barrier but they were able to go right through the outer fence. Low angle makes fence look tall ... and me look like a better gardener!

I have a friend with a quarry just up the highway and he gave me access to a beauty pile of plain old rock. It was a shock to me to see the cost ($200 CAD) of a small palette of flat rock at Muskoka Stone.

When my daughter and son-in-law come here from Florida, I fly the Stars and Stripes and the Maple Leaf together.

 

[22-rimfire]

Tomato Cages: Yes, it is the concrete reinforcing wire that comes in 25 foot rolls that are 5 feet wide and you make your own. That will make you about 9 cages. If you want bigger diamter, add a square or two. A little clumsy to roll out... stand on it or get help, and count out 10 squares and cut with bolt cutters or wire cutters. Tie together with stove pipe wire a couple spots and you have a 5 feet tall self standing tomato cage that is about 18 inches in diameter. Lasts many years (more than 10). My plants eventually will get taller than the cage, but the cage covers most of it and you just let them grow (no tying up the "vines"). Also can be use for cucumbers to climb up.

Mushroom Compost: There are mushroom growers in my area and the grow medium includes horse manure and some straw and so forth. Rich stuff, but not too rich. It is only used once I'm told and they make new. So there are truck loads of the stuff available. The sterile stuff you buy in bags kind of sucks from my point of view. It's too expensive for what you get. I get it at the plant nurseries that sell bulk stuff like bark chips and bark mulch. I get a scoop or about 1 cubic yard and bring it home in a pickup. Hose/Rinse out truck after removing of course. There is a little odor at first.

I feel sure sheep manure is just fine as it's the same kind of beastie. The manure that you should avoid is chicken manure as it is way too rich. There isn't anything particularly special about mushroom compost other than it has a cool sounding name. I used to scrap up dried horse manure for my garden and haul it back home from folks' farms where I might be doing some work in the past. Not really practical anymore for me, so it's mushroom compost. I spread a layer on the soil before I begin to plant much of anything and till it into the soil. I usually till the soil first so I am really only blending the stuff with the existing soil. Makes good drainage too.

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Thanks for the reply.

Cate

 

[vanslem6]

Kind of hard to see, but I snapped a pic while cutting the grass yesterday.

A little bit of everything.

 

[22-rimfire]

Wow. Nice sized garden. Lots of tomato plants. Growing up, we would plant about 100 tomato plants. Mom canned. But there was still an abundance of tomatoes at my house while they were in season. I plant 6 plants as it is only for the two of us. Staggering the planting dates might be a good idea unless the growing season is too short to allow it. I'd do it if I had the room for essentially two crops of tomatoes taking up space at the same time.

 

[vanslem6]

We did more tomatoes last year, and couldn't possibly use them all.
Some pics from last year.

We'd get about that many tomatoes every week. My brother made and canned a lot of salsa, lol. But there's a 2nd garden closer to the house. It's been really cool here so far, so I'm not exactly sure what to expect. I know that people down in Texas were pulling things out of their gardens before we even planted ours.

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Vanslem 6,

Wow! You have a good looking garden too. Thank you for sharing!

I have tried those tomato cages in the past but I should have put a better FENCE around my former MT plantings because the sneaky - hungry animals got to them. You had a good crop of tomatoes!

I even had some raccoons pick UP my little American flags that I put in some pots with plants too. I could not understand how they were removed from the pots and put on the ground. No kidding! I did not have cages around those specific pots though.

My husband said that we should put up a 'trail camera' because it would be funny watching all of this in the back yard even if we are IN TOWN for now.

I told him that it would not take too much to AMUSE ME when it came to animals here in town, back in the Great Lakes boonies where I used to live, in the Sapphire Mountains here in MT or on the East Coast.

Film at 11PM! Grin.

Cate
Typos!

 

[taldesta]

vanslem6 ... I'm thinking a BF GAW 'pick your own' this fall!

Now these pics give meaning to harvest, hungry and feast. I am sure you have lots of family and friends to relieve you of the excess bounty, but if not ...

Do you have a small cultivator to weed between rows? I see you have the equipment to keep the surrounding grass from seeding into the garden but we can't always stop the neighbours' dandelion crop from parachuting in.

Cate and 22-rimfire are right on. Wow.

My fun pic of the week features Daisy, master of concealment: 'Be the rhubarb'