This will now be my 3rd year gardening at 9,000 feet. After some trial and error, I've chosen only to grow the things that will grow well in the outdoor garden, and use my limited greenhouse space in the summer for a few favorites while saving some r ...
This year everything started with a lot of excitement and ended with a crash. Literally. The garden had been going well and kept me busy all summer until my participation came to a halt on August 23 when I fell from my horse. My injuries kept me out ...
I'm kind of a nut when it comes to organization and planning, and it may border on overkill. Sometimes I think I may spend more time with this than I do in the garden. I do most of this organization work during the winter when I have the extra time o ...
In the planning stages of building our house here we had always thought we would eventually build a greenhouse. At our former location in Wellington we had a small, non-heated greenhouse, which provided us with cold-tolerant things like spinach, kale ...
The 2017 Garden Season has ended and winter is on its way. Building Our New Garden The garden is in "hibernation" for the winter. Overall, we were very pleased with the garden in our first year of growing vegetables at this elevation. We were ...
Before we started our garden we had seen a roadside stand not far from here and stopped in. We chatted quite a bit with the owner/gardener. One of the things I remember her saying was that "every year is different" and you just have to go with what y ...
It's time to update the progress in the garden, which I have been putting off because: I’m too busy working in the garden to spend time writing, and choosing & editing photos. I’ve thought that what anyone wants to see is results. Results ...
It’s springtime, and although there is certainly more snow to come, the garden process has begun! Tim is busy clearing the area where we will have our raised-bed fenced garden, and Laurie is busy planning and starting seedlings indoors, under grow li ...
We've begun planning for our new garden, which should be well in place and ready to go in Spring and Summer 2017. We have been reading up on high-altitude gardening, looking for information about what to grow, where to grow it, when to start and ho ...
My new website, High Country Living.net is now live! There is still a lot to add to it, but I wanted to get it out there. High Country Living will focus on high-altitude gardening, raising ducks and recipes adjusted for high altitude. It will pr ...