Problems...

Problem # 1: DEER

I don't think that deer and gardens go together. I've seen that they eat everything that people plant. I've been researching plants and fences. I don't have much of a yard and there are no trees other than my pine trees. So at this point they don't do much damage because I don't have anything for them to damage. lol...

Problem # 2: ROCKS

There isn't much for soil... I'm truely not exagerating. You cannot put a spade in the ground anywhere on my place and not hit several rocks...

Problem #3: WEEDS

I don't have just any weeds... no, I have Spotted Knapweed in addition to many others.

Hello to anyone who reads this! (lol)

My name is Kim and this is to be my gardening blog. I hope to keep up a chronical of my gardening adventures in the mountains of Montana. We recently moved here. We have 5 acres of ground that is mostly pasture type with a few Ponderosa and Lodgepole Pines. It has pretty much been overgrazed for 10-14 years with anywhere from 2 to 5 horses. (this is my The acreage is divided I guess you can say in 4 parts. The pictures show

you the area to the south of the house. This is to become my garden. It is fenced at this time with smooth wire but I intend to use some type of electric fencing because of my friendly neighborhood deer. We have several around. Also the yard is pretty much non-existent... although we have a lot of Spotted Knapweed, we don't have a lot of grass. There is much work to be done.

I have started a few seeds... some tomatos, basil, rosemary, dill, monarda, hollyhocks, blanket flower and some others. I chose a mixed seed package of heirloom tomatos. There is Omars Lebanese, Dutchman, Djena Lee's Golden Girl, Golden Sunburst, Aunt Ruby's German Green and Black Russian. I think most the seeds germinated... what I am going to do with over 30 to

mato plants I really don't know! If they survive me and produce I plan to give away all extra tomatos that I have!

I just transplanted 28 tomato plants, a few hollyhocks and some of the basil.

I would sure appreciate any advice that anyone has to offer on gardening in the mountains, challenges, deer help and so on!

Thanks for reading!

Kim