If you have trouble growing carrots try sowing them with radishes. The radishes easily sprout and then help to shade the soil which better enables the carrots to germinate. Either pull up the radish seedlings after the carrots come up under them or allow some of the radishes to go ahead and produce.

When you are preparing your carrot bed avoid too much manure as a soil amendment as it causes odd shaped and deformed carrots.

Take advantage of the many colors of carrots. It used to be that carrots were just orange. Now breeders have brought back many heirloom and unusual carrots that are everything from light yello0w to purple to dark red.

Now is the time to …

• Set out most all plants
• Build a trellis for your beans
• Core aerate your lawn
• Learn how to do wide bed vegetable garden – see here

Perennials, annuals, Wyoming wildflowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs, indoor plants, xeriscape, trees and shrubs.  Prices start at one dollar!

When: Saturday, June 2
7:30 AM – 12:30 PM
shop early for the best selection!
Where: Cheyenne Botanic Gardens parking lot
Buy from Cheyenne’s most experienced gardeners–

For more information call Joy Oestringer: 634‑2031 or Jo Shelly 632‑5308

The Laramie County Master Gardeners’ are presenting their annual Spring Garden Festival at the Cheyenne Depot Plaza! Shop from gardening related vendors and choose from vegetables, annual flowers, herbs, houseplants, and hardy perennials, trees and shrubs.

The sale features “Plant Select” plants, which will grow and thrive in the difficult growing conditions of the high plains and mountains of Wyoming.

The Master Gardeners’ are a service organization for the Laramie County residents. Proceeds benefit educational programs for the community. For more information, please visit www.LCMG.org or email Linnie.

Most garden centers sell lawn seed mixtures formulated just for shade. These are selections of grasses composed of shade tolerant “fine fescues” which are combinations of sheep’s fescue, red fescue, chewings fescue and other special varieties.

Now is a good time to sow lawn seed. Lightly rake the seed in for good soil contact. Keep the area moist until you see germination. It may take up to three weeks before you see a lot of green.

Click here for other plants suitable for shade.

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This position works extensively with children’s programming, planning, teaching, scheduling and horticulture management

Please feel free to submit resumes, letter of interest and other pertinent information along with application. Click here for more information on how to apply.

A roundtable discussion with a variety of speakers: Mark Stege, Vice President of Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power; John Corra, Director of Wyoming’s Department of Environmental Quality; and several leaders of Cheyenne faith-based communities.

Free and Open to the Public.
Where: Laramie County Library, Cottonwood Room
When: Saturday May 5th 2:30 – 5:30 PM
For more information contact Edith Hook 307–220-3519

World Labyrinth Day is a day that brings people together from all over the planet in celebration of the labyrinth as a symbol, a tool, a passion or a practice. The Garden Labyrinth, located at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, will celebrate Walk as One at 1. Gather at 12:30pm on May 5th at the Botanic Garden’s Peace Garden to learn more prior to the 1:00 pm walk.

Q. If the vote passes, will my taxes go up?
A. No. This tax has been part of our county’s revenue for many decades.

Q. What happens if it doesn’t pass on August 21st?
A. The greenhouse, at taxpayers added expense, will still be required to accommodate the handicapped standards as grandfathering is no longer allowed. The greenhouse will still have to widen aisles (causing the greenhouse to grow 40% fewer plants), add an elevator and expand the restrooms. The Botanic Gardens grounds and city plantings will forever be reduced by 40%.

The greenhouse will still need major repairs and renovation will likely be shutdown for a year while repairs occur. This risks the loss of many volunteers, and a year without cultivated grounds or city flower beds being planted. Expansion will not occur.

Q. If it doesn’t pass on August 21st what happens to the $750,000 renovation and expansion design and construction drawings that voters approved back in the 2008 6th penny.
A. Sadly, the design and construction drawings will basically go into the trash.

Q. $16 million seems like a lot of money
A. The construction of both renovation and expansion of a greenhouse addition is $12 million.
$2 million is for safety improvements Lions Park roads, intersections and sidewalks.
Another $2 million is to cover operational costs for up to 10 years.
Construction costs have sharply risen while the dollar has lost 40% of its value since 2004.

Q. Is it a menu style ballot with the Greenhouse by itself?
A. Yes. You can vote for none, some or all of the projects on the ballot.

Q. Why not just renovate? Why is expansion needed?
A. Expansion makes up for the 40% loss of growing space that would occur when the old greenhouse gets widen aisles for handicapped access. Additional space has been added to the expanded greenhouse to allow for future needs and because the greenhouse can’t meet current requests for city flower plantings.
Expansion also creates revenue generating spaces including a museum store and plant-filled public spaces for weddings, conferences, meetings, retreats and classes. This revenue greatly lessens  the need for taxpayers dollars for the future operation of Botanic Gardens.
Expansion also provides space for an educational exhibit featuring a real Navy Submarine Periscope along with microscopes and telescopes enhancing the Gardens role as the community science center.

Read more about the proposal here