Gardening

The City of Shelby "Weed Ordinance" requires that ALL vegetation on your Shelby property be kept below 6 inches. If the vegetation is in excess of this, you're in violation of the "Weed Ordinance". This ordinance is on the City of Shelby website: www...

Summertime under our Big Sky & the Farmers Markets are up & running in north central Montana. The Shelby Food & Craft Market will be held again this Thursday from 4 until 6 down at Shelby City Park & there's a Food Market up in Sunburst on Thursday morning at Spark Park from 9 to 10. Come Saturday,...

"Tall" Todd reports that he is FINALLY getting to harvest some winter wheat in the Leoti, Kansas area. The boys had to move some 40 miles west of Leoti & 10 miles south, within 2 miles of the Colorado State Line to find dry wheat. The ground down there is marginal farm ground & with this year's lack of moisture, they were cutting some 9 bushel stuff in the poorest spots, but ther

I received word on "Tall" Todd, the custom harvester fellow, this morning & the "Boys" have moved on to Leoti, Kansas. Todd says the crops are not quite ready as there are green spots in them. Either that, or Todd's seeing spots in front of his eyes! Se...

"Tall" Todd, the custom harvester fellow who comes up to our Golden Triangle every harvest season, along with his crew, is on his way WEST to Texas. They're moving to the northern most part of the panhandle of Texas, which is a town call Perryton, "The Wheat Heart of the Nation...

Our friend, "Tall" Todd, the custom cutter fellow who works up here in the Golden Triangle every harvest season, has moved on to Oklahoma & is already harvesting! Todd claims that 67% of Oklahoma will NOT be harvested this year. Todd & his crew are working on "Lonesome" Larry Goyer's farm & what they have harvested is running around 18 bushels, compared with 12 to 1

Apparently not high enough in Kevin! We've received a notice that there will be NO bulk water hauling for the town of Kevin until further notice. With the hot dog days of summer soon to arrive, it is imperative that we all do our best to help protect & preserve one of our most precious resources...e...

The spring flower planting project is coming up tonight (Wednesday) over at the Marias Care Center here in Shelby. Everyone in the community is invited to stop by tonight at 6:30 & volunteer their help. Knowing in our community & the Golden Triangle as I do, I know that there will be a great turnout this evening because that's how we do things out here under our Montana Big Sky. It's p...

"Tall" Todd, the custom harvester guy, reports that he moved 2 machines to Leoti, Kansas earlier this month & is on his way south to Grant, Nebraska with 2 more machines, crew trailers & the rest of the harvest equipment. Earlier, they had taken the tractor & grain cart to the Harrold/Vernon, Texas area, plus semi's & grain trailers. Todd says on t...

That's what 'ol Bob Morris used to say & gardening weather is here! The Shelby Community Garden has plots available. These plots have been plowed & are ready for planting! All YOU need is seed. There are large & small plots available this spring. When you'r...

The April precipitation report for last month (April) at the Knees is finally in & it looks "Tracey." April 5th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 22nd, 29th, & 30th all showed a "trace" of precipitation. There was 1.3 inches of snow with .07 precip reported on the 15th of the month & another 2.1 inches on...

It's Lent, the 40 weekdays of fasting & penitence that goes from Ash Wednesday to Easter, & this week's Lenten Luncheon will be held at the Methodist Church here in Shelby. One way that I know that spring is truly here is when the Lenten Lunches roll around. Our we...