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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:
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 
Vegetable culture and varieties for Wyoming. University of Wyoming, Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 1942. Myron Francis Babb, W. L. Quayle 
Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide (UW Extension publication, 280 pages)
Cheyenne Pie Pumpkin (Internet Archive website)
UW Extension Publications
Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide (UW Extension publication, 280 pages)
Landscaping: Container Gardening (UW CES pub B-1239)
Videos
Edible landscapes - Plants for beauty & food in WY ( Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)

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
Series of videos on growing veggies & herbs
Beginning a vegetable garden with seed in Wyoming
Getting the most from your vegetable garden Video (~48 min)| Audio only
Growing vegetables and fruits in your home garden: What good gardeners know (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
My Victory garden was defeated - Top mistakes when trying to grow veggies (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Seed harvesting and saving (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Starting plants from seed indoors Video (~23 min)| Audio only
Transplanting vegetable plants into the garden
Watering your vegetable garden
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
How to grow in WYO: Leafy greens and peas ( Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)
How to grow in WYO: Tomatoes ( Barnyards & Backyards Live! show)
UW Extension Publications
Wyoming Vegetable & Fruit Growing Guide (UW Extension publication, 280 pages)
Gardening: Vegetables in Wyoming (UW Extension pub B-1115R)
Other Resources
Vegetable Garden Seed Storage and Germination Requirements - lists ave years for storing seed and optimal germination temperatures, etc (University of Nebraska publication)
When to start veggies from seed indoors (weeks) - ( Rutgers article)
Probabilities of Last Spring or First Fall Freeze Occurring in WY   (Based upon 1981 to 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 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

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
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
Keeping wildlife out of gardens - rabbits, deer, raccoons, etc (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
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)
 
 

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 to fix tear in hoop house plastic?
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
Tips to improve the energy efficiency of your greenhouse
When I say "geodesic dome" what do you think about?
Barnyards & Backyards Featured Landowner Articles
Family operation cultivates best vegetable growing techniques for short growing seasons
Featured landowner: High tunnels, high production - and the highlife
Videos
Series of video clips on season extension
A season of growing in high tunnels (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Extending the growing season for vegetables (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Extending the season with high tunnels and geodesic domes (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Insect management in high tunnels, greenhouses & other indoor spaces (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
Small Scale Season Extension for Backyard Gardeners Video (~15 min) | Audio only
Tips for season extension in WY (Barnyards & Backyards Live!)
UW Extension Articles
Gardening: Extending the Vegetable Growing Season (UW CES pub B-1148R)
Gardening: Hotbeds & Cold Frames (UW CES pub B-1151R)
Greenhouse Structures (UW CES pub B-1147R)
Hard-Sided High Tunnel Construction (UW CES pub B-1240)
High Tunnel Handbook (UW CES pub B-1234)
Insect Control Options for Plants Grown in Greenhouses, High Tunnels, etc. (2013)
Websites
Wyoming Hoop House Info Network

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Food Preservation
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