It's tempting to get your garden seeds started indoors now. It's too soon. Here are some other beginner gardening tips as well as plant varieties that generally grow well in Billings.
People are running to garden centers now to get what they need for their garden. They no doubt will pick up a bag of steer manure. Can someone tell me why steer manure is better than cow manure or heifer manure?
Also, if it comes from a feedlot and run through a factory that bags it how do they separate the boy from the girl manure...
I had an old timer tell me that when you plant your tomatoes you want to make sure you put manure in the soil, use a consistent watering schedule and plant marigolds around them. The flowers emit an odor that bugs don't like and that will keep them off your plants...