Gardening

The City of Shelby weed ordinance requires that all vegetation on your  property be kept below 6 inches! IF vegetation is in excess of this, you're in VIOLATION of the ordinance. This ordinance is AVAILABLE on the City of Shelby website (www...

A report came rolling in this morning from Tall Todd, the custom cutter guy & Todd plans to be down in the Conrad area around the 20th of this month! The guys have run into green with only a couple of days of harvest left out in Leoti, Kansas. He...

,It's WEDNESDAY(!) & that means the Farmers Market will be going strong this afternoon over in Cut Bank at Cut Bank City Park. Today's Cut Bank Farmers Market gets underway at 3 o'clock SHARP this afternoon & it's another perfect day here in our Golden Triangle for a Farmers Market with partly cloudy skies, 10 to 15 mph winds, & a high temperature of 80 degrees in the Big Sky forecast.

Whenever I "spin" the Jay & the Techniques tune, "Apples, Peaches, Punkin' Pie," it reminds me of all the Farmers Markets that take place every summer out here under our Montana Big Sky. There's one happening in Cut Bank this afternoon, & they're stocked to the hilt this week! Today...

Tall Todd the custom harvester guy says that he is 1 field short of finishing in Clinton, Oklahoma. That field is still muddy, but should be dried out enough today as the forecast there is for 95 degrees & 15 to 30 mph south winds! The crop ran from 25 to 30 bushels to the acre with test weights between 57 & 58 pounds, except for 1 load that only weighed 47.9 pound...

Tall Todd & his custom cutter crew have 2 machines down in Vernon, Texas, this week on the Terry Bruce farm & 4 machines over in Oklahoma. It's extremely muddy in both places &the temperature is predicted to hit 100 in Vernon this week! A few days...

The Montana Veterans Affair Rep has blown into our Golden Triangle this week, & if you missed the rep this morning (Wednesday) here in Shelby, there's still an opportunity for a visit this afternoon from 1 until 3 o'clock over in Cut Bank at the Glacier County Extension Office. To...

Partly cloudy Montana skies this afternoon (Wednesday) & high temperatures around 75...a perfect day for a farmers market, & there's 1 this afternoon over in Cut Bank. The Cut Bank Farmers Market will be going full tilt from 3 o'clock this  afternoon until 6 tonight. At las...

Summer's in full swing with a farmers market scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday) over in Cut Bank in City Park. Today''s market runs from 3 until 6 this afternoon in the park. Fresh fruits & vegetables will keep you healthy, wealthy & wise. Perhap...

The Precipitation Report for the month of May at the Knees has been officially released! May 17th saw .88, while the 29th of the month rolled in with a .49. May 27th & May 28th posted .25 & .24 respectively. There was .24 on the 16th, & .21 on the 2...

I received word this morning (Tuesday) from Tall Todd, the custom cutter guy who shows up here to the Golden Triangle every harvest season. Todd says that his crew has started to harvest in Vernon, Teas, where they have had over 25 inches of rain...

In fact, we're starting a NEW book tonight (Tuesday) at Montana History up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. Allow me to say that the book we finished last week, "The Long_____Awakening" by Gildford's Russell B. Crites, was one fantastic read that is still resonating with me this week...