Best Way to Increase Soil Microbes and Improve Plant Health

If you’ve spent any time gardening here in the Black Hills, you know it’s a labor of love that requires a certain amount of “grit.” Between our legendary spring snowstorms, the persistent prairie winds, and soil that can range from heavy clay to rocky shale, our plants have to be as tough as the people…

Whenever I respond to a person requesting an appointment, I mention that I’ll have the gate open and most of the dogs contained. Freyja and Pepper get contained. When we get the greenhouse/shop built, and the second driveway finished, you may get to meet them.

If you’ve lived in this corner of the world for more than a week, you know the old saying: If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes. But even for us seasoned South Dakotans, this winter has been—for lack of a better word—wonky. As I sit here in the nursery office, AKA the living…