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University of Wyoming Extension
1000 E. University Ave, Department #3354
Laramie, WY 82071
Email: barnyardsbackyards@uwyo.edu

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Growing Season/Plant Hardiness Zone Info

Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Temperature Occurring in WY (Based upon 1981 to 2017 data)

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone

Large guide covering multiple kinds of fruit

Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide (UW Extension publication, 280 pages)

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

Videos

Series of video clips on growing fruit

Other resources

Potential fruit trees and shrubs for USDA Zone 3 and 4 areas of Wyoming (Notes from the Successfully Growing Trees in Albany County Workshop 2023)

Additional historical materials:

More info on the history of the Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station (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

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 landowner: Passion for growing turns into grand experiment

Preventing, solving those pesky fruit tree diseases

Wyoming Apple Project attempts to save Wyoming's diverse apple cultivars

Wyoming apple project: Old trees meet new technology

Other Sites

Wyoming Apple Project site (Site includes a list of Wyoming lost and found apple cultivars, recommended cultivars, identification booklets, parentage info, grafting and pruning info and vidoes, and information on growth, maintenance disease and pests.)

Critical Spring Temperatures for Tree Fruit Bud Development Stages

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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 variety: 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

Growing Grapes in Wyoming (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

Getting the most out of your vines - Grape pruning (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

UW Extension Publications

Wyoming Grape Guide - learn how to grow grapes

Other Sites

North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center northern hardy fruit evaluations

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

Blueberries - Using containers can help shepherd blueberries through Wyoming's rough and tumble growing season

Currants and gooseberries weather Wyoming's harsh winters and can swweeten summers

What about super fruit for Wyoming?

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Easy to grow, good for you, taste great - but a little raspberry research will sweeten the success

Raspberry patch grows into berry bonanza

Wyoming raspberries under attack

UW Extension Articles & Pubs

Raspberry production guide for Wyoming (UW Extension publication)

Raising small fruits in Wyoming...'berry' delicious! (UW CES Newspaper Insert 2009)

Videos

Growing caneberries in Wyoming (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

Other Resources

Raspberry and Blackberry Production Guide for the Northeast, Midwest, and Eastern Canada (NRAES-35, 2008)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

No lie! You can grow cherry trees in Wyoming - just be selective

Plumtastic! Plums can weather Wyoming's cold temperatures, periods of drought, short growing seasons

Preventing, solving those pesky fruit tree diseases

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UW Extension Articles & Pubs

Raising small fruits in Wyoming...'berry' delicious! (UW CES Newspaper Insert 2009)

Other Sites

Critical Spring Temperatures for Tree Fruit Bud Development Stages

University of Saskatchewan Fruit Breeding Program

North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center northern hardy fruit evaluations

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

Weather, eager bugs confront strawberry growers trying to get fruit to maturity

Three strawberry types sweeten Wyoming tables

UW Extension Articles & Pubs

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? (sometimes a pest of fruit trees)

Hail and Gardens

Videos

Series of video clips on Pest issues

Common insect issues in garden and yard (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

Alternative non-chemical pest control for vegetable gardens Video (~25 min) | Audio only

Plant diseases in gardens (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

Protecting your garden/landscape from deer damage (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

Other Publications - Wildlife damage

Keeping critters out (section of the Fruit & Vegetable Production Guide for Wyoming, UW Extension)

Excluding and Repelling Problem Wildlife from the Garden (UMass Extension)

The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (research-based info from various universities)

Preventing Deer Damage – 6.520 (Colorado State University)

Urban & Nuisance Wildlife (Wyoming Game and Fish)

Fences and Deer-Damage Management: A Review of Designs and Efficacy (APHIS and University of Nebraska)

Pocket Gophers: IPM for Home Gardeners and Landscape Professionals (University of California)

National Pesticide Network (compilation of links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)

Soils Resources

See our Soils page for information on determining what you have and learning how to improve it.

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

See Vegetable page for season extension techniques

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

Food Preservation

Contact Us

Barnyards & Backyards
University of Wyoming Extension
1000 E. University Ave, Department #3354
Laramie, WY 82071
Email: barnyardsbackyards@uwyo.edu