Growing Potatoes in Montana
Potatoes are a great crop for Montana!
Did you know that Montana is usually the #3 or #4 top producer of seed potatoes in the US in a given year, and Gallatin County accounts for almost half of the potato-growing acreage in the state?
Potatoes prefer cool, sandy soil and grow well in our climate.
Fungus Gnats: PGC Best Practices
Anyone with indoor plants has been here before.
You’ve been taking the BEST care of your house or office plant, but lately you’ve noticed some tiny flying bugs while watering. Now there’s more than one, tiny spacy floating blurry black spots. You’ve got fungus gnats - tiny flies (similar to fruit flies) that live in house plants!
Before you call the fumigator, we’ve got great news about these pests!
Zone Pushing, Montana Edition
What is Zone Pushing?
Zone pushing is the gardening practice of growing a plant outside its recommended USDA hardiness zone. A "tender perennial" is a plant that is perennial (comes back year after year) in warm climates but is not winter-hardy in your colder zone.
Zone pushing is about creatively helping these plants survive winter so you can enjoy them for multiple seasons.
New Name, Bozeman’s Same Great Garden Center
Many Bozemanites remember waiting impatiently for the Gallatin Valley Garden Center banner to go up in the parking lot across from Albertson’s on Huffine every Spring. At first, in 2003 you could get mostly Visser Greenhouse’s Bedding Plants, but the owners slowly added a variety of other perennial plants, shrubs, trees & succulents.
Eventually Travis, the owner, was able to set up shop permanently at the corner of Huffine and Cobb Hill Road-think big new yellow building next to the small yellow barn.
A few years have passed since the move & Bozeman’s little garden center is still growing!