Rocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening Guide

About Cheryl Moore-GoughRobert Gough

Cheryl Moore-Gough holds a B.S. in Horticulture and an M.S. in Plant Sciences from Montana State University where she retired as the Montana State Extension Horticulturist in 2008. While serving in that capacity she instructed and coordinated the Montana Master Gardener program and co-authored its manual. She was the plant disease diagnostician in MSUs Schutter Diagnostic Lab and is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in horticulture at MSU where she teaches Vegetable Production. Additionally she has taught various undergraduate classes at MSU and has published numerous works alone and with her late husband the well-known Robert Dr. Bob Gough. Together they wrote in 2007 The Montana Gardeners Companion first edition; in 2010 Guide to Rocky Mountain Vegetable Gardening and in 2011 The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds. Cheryls articles have been published in numerous magazines including Fine Gardening Zone 4 Magazine Montana Magazine American Nurseryman and Big Sky Small Acres. She has co-authored over 25 Montana Extension yard and garden informational MontGuides and Bulletins. Cheryl is an articulate and entertaining speaker much in demand throughout the western United States. Cheryl is also the technical horticulture editor for Zone 4 Magazine and she produces and hosts the Northern News Networks daily radio program Northern Gardening Tips carried by stations throughout Montana Wyoming and the Dakotas. Cheryl currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Montana nonprofit Gallatin Valley Farm to School. She has been gardening and saving seeds in the Gallatin Valley for over 40 years.