Bob Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough | The Montana Gardener’s Companion
Published: April 2, 2008
An Insider’s Guide to Gardening under the Big Sky
Two avid gardeners channel a combined seven decades of plant-growing expertise into this loamy book, which tackles the challenges of cultivating trees, flowers and vegetables in Montana's notoriously unpredictable climate and sundry soil types.
The Montana Gardener's Companion begins with "Firm Foundations," a look at the state's soil types, climate conditions and water needs. From there, the authors launch into "Green Things," a section devoted to growing lawns, vegetables, fruit, annual and perennial flowers, trees, shrubs and native plants.
Finally, they offers solutions for garden pests and other problems, and list online and print resources, plus contact information for soil surveys and testing laboratories and extension offices throughout the state.
Bob Gough is a horticulture professor at Montana State University and the author of nine gardening books, several magazine articles and 500 extension service publications. His wife, Cheryl Moore-Gough, is the MSU Extension state horticulturist and coordinates the Master Gardener Program. Both make regular appearances on the Montana PBS program, "Montana Ag Live."
