Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Starting Plant From Seed Indoors: The Basics
- Ask Sam: I am new to gardening and would like to start. What are some easy vegetables for me to grow?
- An Aquaponics Operation May be the Right Fit but Look Before Jumping In
- Growing Your Own Food (B&B Wyoming Rural Living Resources Guide Section)
Other Articles and Publications
- (UWE Pub B-1340)
- ( Rutgers Article)
- (Kansas State University)
Growing Season/ Plant Hardiness Zone Info
Videos
- (UWYO Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Apply a Little Agricultural Economics to Your Garden for Best Results
- Container Intercropping Yields Blooms and Bumper Crops
- 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 Alternative 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
Featured Landowners
- Featured Landowner: Coming Home, Dreams, and Returning to Agricultural Roots
- 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 Landowner: Rural Casper Venture Grew a Family While Cultivating Tree, Vegetable Business
- Featured Landowner: Sweet Success on the South Fork
Additional Historical Material
- (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 Pub B-1340)
- (Internet Archive Website)
UW Extension Publications
- ( UW Pub B-1340)
- ( UW CES Pub B-1239R)
Videos
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
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)
Fruit Growing Resources
Fruit Growing Resources
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- A Dash of Homegrown Zest to Your Diet
- Herbs at Home: Following Practical Tips Will Flavor Winter's Dull Days
- Garlic Puts Fall Gusto in Your Garden, Summer Zest in Kitchen
- Not Your Ususal Garden Crop: Hops Production
- Specialty Crops: Growing Medicinal herbs, Culinary Herbs and Spices in Wyoming
UW Extension Publications
- (UW CES Pub B-1144R)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
UW Extension Publications
(UW CES pub B-1144R)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Add Some Pep Into 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 Fresh Garden Vegetables in Wyoming
- Hardy Crops Make for Fresh Produce During Long Winters
- Lettuce Helps Growers Have a Green Thumb in Wyoming
- Raised Beds Make Life Easier for Gardeners, Better Homes for Vegetables
- Seed Saving Steps Secures 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: Vertical Planters
- 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
- Community Supported Agriculture Links Consumers with Producers; Provides Fresh Vegetables, Managing Risks
Featured Landowners
- 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
- Couple Produce Pampered Pumpkins, Succulent Squash, Grand Gourds
Videos
- (UWyo Extension: 60 videos)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)
- (UWyo Extension- 48 minute video)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)
UW Extension Publications
- (UW Extension Pub B-1340)
- (UW Extension Pub B-115R)
Other Resources
- Lists average years for storing seed and optimal temperature, etc. (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
- (Rutgers Article)
- Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Freeze Occuring in WY (Based upon 1981-2017 data)
- (WY NOAA Website)
- Vegetables for Laramie Gardeners Provides a list of veggies that grown well, planting dates, and other useful information (Laramie Garden Club and Laramie Local Foods)
- Gardening on the Fringe...of Laramie Learn more about vegetable gardening stratagies 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
Barnyards and Backyards Featured Landowner Articles
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
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)
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
- Whether Bush or Pole, Green Beans in 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
UW Extension Publications
- (UW Extension Pub B-1340)
- (UW Extension Pub B-115R)
Videos
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 Control Heavy Artillery
- Got Voles? We Have Answers (sometimes a pest of fruit trees)
- Hail and Gardens
- Residents Asked to Watch for Japanese Beetles
- What's Eating My Plants?! (Insect damage)
- What's Wrong With My Tomatoes!?
Videos
- (Series of videos about pest issues: UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (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 Nebraska Lincoln and APHIS)
- (University of California)
- (links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)
Helpful B&B Resource Pages
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Got voles? (sometimes a pest of fruit trees)
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
- 101 (Almost) Ways for a High Tunnel to Die
- Are Radiant Heat Retention Strategies Beneficial to High Tunnel Production?
- Ask Sam: How do I repair tears and holes in the plastic of my hoop house?
- Ask Sam: Which direction should a hoop house be oriented?
- Citrus in the Snow
- Containers Can Provide Gardeners Control Over Invading Insects or Weeds
- Crop Protections Push Vegetable Harvests into Late Fall- Even Winter
- Extreme Gardening: Microclimates Making Them Work for You
- Here's How to Build a Hoop House
- High Tunnel Insect and Mite Control
- High Tunnel Surprises
- Need More Season for Growing Your Vegetables? We Can Do That
- Simple, Low-Cost Low Tunnel Can Add Weeks to Growing Season
- A Few Tips for Boosting the Energy Efficiency of Your Green House
- When I Say "Geodesic Dome" What Do You Think About?
Barnyards and Backyards Featured Landowner Articles
- Featured Landowner: Family Operation Cultivates Best Vegetable Techniques for Short Growing Season
- Featured Landowner: High Tunnels, High Production- and the Highlife
Videos
- (series of videos by UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
- (UWyo Extension)
- (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
UW Extension Publications
- (UW Extension Pub B-1148R)
- ( UW Extension Pub B-1151R)
- (UW Extension Pub B-1147R)
- (UW Extension Pub B-1240)
- ( UW Extension Pub B-1234)
- Insect and Mite Control Options for Plants Grown in Wyoming Greenhouses, High Tunnels, and Hoop Houses (2013)
Websites
Barnyards and Backyards Articles
Barnyards & Backyards Featured Landowner Articles
Videos
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Small Scale Season Extension for Backyard Gardeners (~15 min) |
(Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
UW Extension Articles
(UW CES pub B-1148R)
(UW CES pub B-1151R)
(UW CES pub B-1147R)
(UW CES pub B-1240)
(UW CES pub B-1234)
Websites
Barnyards and Backyards Articles and Resources
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