Resources

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

• 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
• Vegetable Culture and Varieties for Wyoming University of Wyoming, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 1942. Myron Francis Babb, W,L. Quayle
• Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growth Guide ( UW Pub B-1340)
• Early Cheyenne Pumpkin Pie (Internet Archive Website)

UW Extension Publications

• Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growth Guide ( UW Pub B-1340)
• Landscaping: Container Gardening ( UW CES Pub B-1239R)

Videos

• Edible Landscapes- Plants for Beauty and Food in WY (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)

Fruit Growing Resources

• Visit our Fruit Resource Page for lots of great information

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

• Growing Herbs in Wyoming (UW CES Pub B-1144R)

Barnyards and Backyards Articles

• Unraveling the Mysteries of Mushrooms
• Residential Lot-Turned-Small-Farm Yields Prized Produce

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

• Series of Videos on Growing Veggies & Herbs (UWyo Extension: 60 videos)
• Beginning a Vegetable Garden with Seed in Wyoming (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)
• Getting the Most From Your Vegetable Garden (UWyo Extension- 48 minute video)
• Growing Vegetables and Fruits in Your Home Garden: What Good Gardeners Know (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• My Victory Garden Was Defeated- Top 10 Mistakes When Trying to Grow Veggies (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Seed Harvesting and Saving (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Starting Plants From Seed Indoors (UWyo Extension)
• Transplanting Vegetable Plants into the Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Watering Your Vegetable Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)

UW Extension Publications

• Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide(UW Extension Pub B-1340)
• Gardening: Growing Vegetables in Wyoming (UW Extension Pub B-115R)

Other Resources

• Vegetable Garden Seed Storage and Germination Requirements  Lists average years for storing seed and optimal temperature, etc. (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
• Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors (Rutgers Article)
• Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Freeze Occuring in WY (Based upon 1981-2017 data)
• Seed Savers Exchange: Crop-Specific Seed Saving Guide
• Spring Freeze Dates for Western and Central WY (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

• 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

• Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide(UW Extension Pub B-1340)
• Gardening: Growing Vegetables in Wyoming (UW Extension Pub B-115R)

Videos

• How to Grow in WYO: Leafy Greens and Peas (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• How to Grow in WYO: Tomatoes (Barnyards and Backyards Live! Show)

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

• 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)
• Protecting Your Fruit & Veg From Wildlife (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Live Plant Diseases in the Garden (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• 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)
• Fences and Deer-Damage Management: A Review of Designs and Efficacy (University of Nebraska Lincoln and APHIS)
• 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

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

• Season Extension Playlist (series of videos by UWyo Extension)
• A Season of Growing in High Tunnels (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Extending the Growing Season for Vegetables (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Extending the Season with High Tunnels and Geodesic Domes (Barnyards & Backyards Wyoming)
• Insect Management in High Tunnels, Greenhouses & Other Indoor Spaces (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)
• Small Scale Season Extension for Backyard Gardeners (UWyo Extension)
• Tips for Growing in High Tunnels (Barnyards & Backyards Live! Show)

UW Extension Publications

• Extending the Vegetable Growing Season (UW Extension Pub B-1148R)
• Gardening Hotbeds & Coldframes ( UW Extension Pub B-1151R) 
• Greenhouse Structures (UW Extension Pub B-1147R)
• Hard-Sided High Tunnel Construction (UW Extension Pub B-1240)
• High Tunnel HandBook ( UW Extension Pub B-1234)
• Insect and Mite Control Options for Plants Grown in Wyoming Greenhouses, High Tunnels, and Hoop Houses (2013)

Websites

• Wyoming Hoop House Info Network 

Soils Resources

• Visit Our Soils Resource Page to learn what you have and how to improve it
• Soil Samples for Gardens and Landscapes

Barnyards and Backyards Articles and Resources

• Visit our Food Use, Safety, and Preservation Resource Page for more information
• Rediscovering Your Roots