
Growing Season/Plant Hardiness Zone Info
- Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Freeze Occurring in WY (Based on 1981-2017 data)
Fruit Growth Guide
- (UWE Pub B-1340)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Citrus in the Snow
- Correct Grafting Techniques Fool Mother Nature- To Our Benefit
- How to Graft Fruit Trees
- Featured Landowners: Sweet Success on the South Fork
- Wyoming Tough: Fruits, Vegetables That Survived Former Cheyenne Field Station Tests Bested Mother Nature's Worst
Other Resources
- Possible Fruit Trees and Shrubs for Zone 3 and 4 Areas of Wyoming
- Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Freeze Occurring in WY
- (UW Extension Pub B-1340)
- (Cheyenne Botanic Garden Website)
- Recommended Horticultural Plants Generally Hardy and Adaptable in the Central Great Plains Region University of Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, (February 1982) Gene S Howard
- Twenty-eight Years of Testing Tree Fruit Varieties at The Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station Cheyenne, Wyoming. USDA ARS Crops Research Bulletin, series 34, no. 39 (October 1962) Gene Howard and G.B. Brown
Videos
- (26 videos on fruit/fruit tree care UWyo Extension)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Apple, Pear Trees Can Survive and Thrive in Wyoming
- Apple Trees CAN Grow in Wyoming
- Featured Landowners: Landowners Pursue Love of Apples Through High Elevation School of Hard Knocks
- Featured Landowners: Passion For Growing Turn Into Grand Experiment
- Preventing, Solving Pesky Fruit Tree Diseases
- Wyoming Apple Project Attempts to Save Wyoming Diverse Apple Cultivars
- Wyoming Apple Project: Old Trees Meet New Technology
Wyoming Apple Project
- (Site includes a list of Wyoming lost and found apple cultivars, recommended cultivars, identification booklets, parentage info, grafting and pruning info and videos, and information on growth, maintenance disease and pests.)
- (Michigan State University Extension)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Assessing Cold Damage Guides Pruning for Bountiful Vineyard Production
- Cultivating a Great Vineyard Doesn't Happen By Accident
- Grape Pests Want More Than a Sip of Your Vineyard
- Grapes Galore! Planning Your Wyoming Vineyard
- Grow Grapes in Wyoming? Why Not?
- Plenty of Varieties: Grapes For Wine, Juice, Jelly in Wyoming
- Proper Planting, Training Vines Crucial to a Vineyard's Success
- Pruning Your Grapevines
- Wyoming Residents Grow Grapes for Wines, Jellies
Videos
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Other Resources
- (UW Extension Pub B-1341)
- (North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Easy to Grow, Good for You, Great Taste- Raspberries
- Featured Landowners: Raspberry Patch Grows Into Berry Bonanza
- Wyoming Raspberries Under Attack! Rose Stem Girdler
Additional Articles & Publications
- (UW Extension Pub B-1352)
- Raising Small Fruits in Wyoming... 'Berry' Delicious (UW CES Newspaper insert 2009)
- (NRAES-35, 2008)
Videos
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- No Lie! You Can Grow Cherry Trees in Wyoming, Just be Selective!
- Plums can Weather Wyoming's Short Growing Season
- Preventing, Solving Those Pesky Fruit Tree Diseases
Additional Resources
- Raising Small Fruits in Wyoming... 'Berry' Delicious (UW CES Newspaper insert 2009)
- (Michigan State University Extension)
- (North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Using Containers Can Help Shepherd Blueberries Through Wyoming's Rough and Tumble Growing Season
- Currants and Gooseberries Weather Wyoming's Harsh Winters and can Sweeten Summers
- What About Super Fruit for Wyoming? Goji Berries
- Weather, Eager Bugs Confront Strawberry Growers Trying to Get Fruit to Maturity
- Three Strawberry Types Sweeten Wyoming Tables
UW Extension Articles
- Raising Small Fruits in Wyoming... 'Berry' Delicious (UW CES Newspaper insert 2009)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Don't Have a Plant M.D.? Here's How to Determine What's Ailing Them
- Got Voles? We Have Answers (sometimes a pest of fruit trees)
- Hail and Gardens
Videos
- (Series of videos about pest issues: UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
Other Publications- Wildlife Damage
- Keeping Critters Out ( section from: UW Extension Pub B-1340)
- (UMass Extension)
- (Research based info from various universities)
- (Colorado State University Extension)
- (Wyoming Game & Fish Department)
- (University of California)
- (links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)
Helpful B&B Resource Pages
See Gardening Page for Season Extension techniques

