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Gardening
an individual wearing gardening gloves using a small shovel to transplant a small plant with roots

Barnyards and Backyards Articles
 
 Other Articles and Publications
  •  (UWE Pub B-1340)
  • ( Rutgers Article)
  •  (Kansas State University)

 

Growing Season/ Plant Hardiness Zone Info
 
Videos
 
 
 

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

 

Featured Landowners

 

Additional Historical Material

 

UW Extension Publications

  • ( UW Pub B-1340)
  •  ( UW CES Pub B-1239R)

 

Videos

Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Apply a little agricultural economics to your garden for best results
Coming home, dreams, and returning to agricultural roots
Container intercropping yields blooms and bumper crops
Featured landowner: If at first you don't succeed - succeed!
Featured landowner: Natrona County family sets deep roots, reaps results of hard work and diversification
Featured Landowners: Rural Casper venture grew a family while cultivating tree, vegetable business
Featured landowners: Sweet success on the South Fork
Finding community in the garden
Garden cover crops bolster soil nutrients, organic matter
Is my garden soil harboring harmful herbicide residues?
The science behind crop improvement and new plant development
Tips, tricks ease aches and pains of gardening gains
Wyoming Hunger Initiative actions strengthen anti-hunger efforts across state
Wyoming offers opportunities for alternate crops
What will you plant? USDA PLANTS database an online landowner resource
Wyoming tough: Fruits, vegetables that survived former Cheyenne field station tests bested Mother Nature’s worst
Additional historical materials:
(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 
Vegetable culture and varieties for Wyoming. University of Wyoming, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 1942. Myron Francis Babb, W. L. Quayle 
(UW Extension publication, 280 pages)
(Internet Archive website)
UW Extension Publications
(UW Extension publication, 280 pages)
(UW CES pub B-1239)
Videos
( Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

Featured Landowners

Videos

 

UW Extension Publications

  • (UW Extension Pub B-1340)
  •  (UW Extension Pub B-115R)

 

Other Resources

Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Add some pep to your garden - Tips on cultivating peppers
Ask Sam: I am new to gardening and would like to start. What are some easy vegetables for me to grow?
Extreme gardening: Microclimates making them work for you
Gardening in Wyoming
Growing for Sharing
Growing Garden Fresh Vegetables in Wyoming
Hardy crops make for fresh produce during long winters
Lettuce help growers have a green thumb in Wyoming
Raised beds make life easier for gardeners, better homes for vegetables
Seed saving steps secure satisfying sequels
Shedding some light on shade cloth
Some veggies like it hot and some like it not - what this means for you and your garden!
Starting plants from seed indoors - The basics
The planter grows up
Think container gardening if looking to raise vibrant veggies
Up for the challenge: Gardening in Wyoming
Winter, a great time to design your garden space
Barnyards and Backyards Featured Landowner Articles
Featured landowner:Beginning farmer/rancher incentive helps Gillette farmer increase production
Featured landowner:Gardeners raise vegetables almost year-round at 8,000 feet
Featured Landowner: Star Valley family produces commercial vegetables using sustainable practices
Featured landowners: Couple produce pampered pumpkins, succulent squash, grand gourds
Community Supported Agriculture links consumers with producers; provides fresh vegetables, manages risk
Videos
Getting the most from your vegetable garden (~48 min)|
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Starting plants from seed indoors (~23 min)|
Barnyards and Backyards Articles - Specific Crops
Whether bush or pole, green beans weather Wyoming
There seems to be a love-hate relationship with the beet. We love them.
Let carrots make a crunch in your garden this summer
Garlic puts fall gusto in your garden, summer zest in kitchen
Unpretentious potato quietly goes about feeding the world
Spinach provides a powerful punch against health villains
Get growing: Planting squash in the garden
Videos - Specific Crops
( Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)
( Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)
UW Extension Publications
(UW Extension publication, 280 pages)
(UW Extension pub B-1115R)
Other Resources
- lists ave years for storing seed and optimal germination temperatures, etc (University of Nebraska publication)
- ( Rutgers article)
Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Freeze Occurring in WY   (Based upon 1981 to 2017 data)
Vegetables for Laramie Gardeners - Provides list of veg that grow well, planting dates and other useful info (Laramie Garden Club and Laramie Local Foods)
Presentations
Gardening on the Fringe...of Laramie  Learn more about vegetable gardening strategies for the challenging conditions often faced by those of us gardening outside of town (pdf file contains talk slides and handouts from March 2012 presentation)
Notes on Starting Plants from Seed Indoors – The Basics

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

 

Videos

 

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 Nebraska Lincoln and APHIS)
  •  (University of California) 
  • (links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)

 

Helpful B&B Resource Pages 

 

Insects
Plant Diseases
Wildlife
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Don't have a plant M.D.? Here's how to determine what's ailing them
Garden pest control may not require heavy artillery
Got voles? (sometimes a pest of fruit trees)
Hail and Gardens
Residents asked to watch for Japanese beetles
What's eating my plant?
What's wrong with my tomatoes!?
Videos
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Alternative non-chemical pest control for vegetable gardens |
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Other Publications - Wildlife damage
Keeping critters out (section of the , UW Extension)
(UMass Extension)
(research-based info from various universities)
(Colorado State University)
(Wyoming Game and Fish)
(APHIS and University of Nebraska)
(University of California)
(compilation of links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)
 
 

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

 

Barnyards and Backyards Featured Landowner Articles

 

Videos

 

UW Extension Publications

 

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