Resources

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
• 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
• Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide (UW Extension Pub B-1340)
• 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

 

Videos

• Fruit & Fruit Trees Video Playlist (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

• 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.)
• Picture Table of Critical Temperatures for Tree Fruit Bud Development Stages (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

• Growing Grapes in Wyoming (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
• Getting the Most Out of Your Vines-Grape Training & Pruning (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)

 

Other Resources

• Wyoming Grape Guide (UW Extension Pub B-1341)
• Northern Hardy Fruit Evaluation Project (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

• Raspberry Production Guide for Wyoming (UW Extension Pub B-1352)
• Raising Small Fruits in Wyoming... 'Berry' Delicious (UW CES Newspaper insert 2009)
• Raspberry and Blackberry Production Guide For the Northeast, Midwest, and Eastern Canada (NRAES-35, 2008)

 

Videos

• Growing Caneberries in Wyoming (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)
• Picture Table of Critical Temperatures for Tree Fruit Bud Development Stages (Michigan State University Extension)
• University of Saskatchewan Fruit Program
• Northern Hardy Fruit Evaluation Project (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

• Pest Problems Playlist (Series of videos about pest issues: UWyo Extension)
• Common Insect Issues in Garden and Yard (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Alternative Non-Chemical Pest Control for Vegetable Gardens (UWyo Extension)
• Plant Diseases in the Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
• Protecting Your Garden/ Landscape From Deer Damage (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)

 

Other Publications- Wildlife Damage

• Keeping Critters Out ( section from: Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide UW Extension Pub B-1340)
• Excluding and Repelling Problem Wildlife from the Garden (UMass Extension)
• Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management (Research based info from various universities) 
• Preventing Deer Damage (Colorado State University Extension)
• Urban & Nuisance Wildlife (Wyoming Game & Fish Department)
• Pocket Gophers IPM for Home Gardeners and Landscape Professionals (University of California) 
• National Pesticide Information Center(links to wildlife resources, not just pesticide related)

Helpful B&B Resource Pages 

• Plant Diseases
• Insects
• Wildlife

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