Gardening 101

Gardening 101 is a new e-newsletter in 2020 meant for new gardeners! The newsletters come out several times a month with timely information to guide you through all stages of planting, watering, and harvesting your own fruits and vegetables. This newsletter is in partnership with University of Wyoming Extension gardening experts.

Gardening 101: Planning Your Garden

Garden season is coming to an end, but it is never too soon to start planning for next summer! Find our tips in this newsletter.

Woman spreading straw over a garden bed.

Gardening 101: Winterizing Your Garden

Prepare your garden for winter to help reduce the amount of work you’ll have next spring and protect it from pests and disease.

Turnips, carrots, and radishes with dirt on them and their tops still on, on top of a wooden table.

Gardening 101: Storing Root Vegetables

Potatoes, carrots, beets, onions- these root vegetables and others thrive in most Wyoming gardens. Root vegetables also store well without refrigeration.

Wooden woven basked with tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, and peppers inside.

Gardening 101: Preserving Your Harvest

Is your garden overflowing with veggies? Think about preserving your harvest to enjoy it all winter long.

Gardening 101: Green Beans

Beans, beans, they are good for you and good for your garden too! There are many kinds of beans, and two varieties: bush and pole.

Brown bowl of peas from the garden, with a vine still attached, sitting on a white wooden surface.

Gardening 101: Peas

Sweet, green, and crunchy, is there anything better than eating snap peas straight out of the garden? Nope!

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This material was funded by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. This material was funded by USDA’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program-EFNEP. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The full nondiscrimination statement can be found here.

Issued in furtherance of extension work, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kelly Crane, Director, University of Wyoming Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming Extension, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071.

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