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Garden Wars: Southwest Montana Mountain Style
A feeling of optimism over takes me when I begin planning, then planting a garden in southwest Montana. Precious seeds are started indoors months before their outdoor living debut, watching the first brave green shoots appear, watering; nurturing and beginning to imagine tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, flowers, and maybe, if the season is kind, a respectable…
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High-Altitude Gardening in the Mountains Near Bozeman, Montana
Humbling, is the first word that comes to mind when I think about gardening in the mountains of southwest Montana. I’ve gardened in the town of Bozeman and now in the mountains. Each year brings new challenges. Weeks can be spent dreaming over seed catalogs, attending seed swaps, visiting plant nurseries, carefully starting tomatoes on a…