Veggie Crops A-Z
Growing vegetables in Colorado can be both a challenge and a thrill. Bright sun and low humidity can make for incredibly good crops and low disease pressures. These factors require care in regards to sun protection and sufficient watering. There are many things you can do to ensure a successful crop both for your purposes and for donation. See below for a listing of resources broken down by specific crop.
Asparagus
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Planting Radish, Beet & Carrot Seeds and Asparagus Roots (4:42)
Beans
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- VIDEO: Growing Beans in Colorado (10:12)
Beets
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Second Crops – Planttalk #1825
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- VIDEO: Planting Radish, Beet & Carrot Seeds and Asparagus Roots (4:42)
Broccoli
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Brussels Sprouts
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Cabbage
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Carrots
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- VIDEO: Planting a Salad – Direct Seeding Radishes, Spinach & Lettuce (11:01)
Cauliflower
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Celery
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
Collards
- Collards – Planttalk #1823
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Cool Season Leafy Green Varieties – Planttalk #1804
- Cultural Tips for Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1820
- Harvesting Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1810
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Corn
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
Cucumber
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Vine Crops – Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash, and Melons – Fact Sheet #7.609
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- VIDEO: Hand Pollination & Determining Male/Female Flowers (2:56)
Eggplant
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Peppers and Eggplant – Fact Sheet #7.616
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
Horseradish
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- Health Benefits and Safe Handling of Salad Greens – Fact Sheet #9.373
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- VIDEO: Planting Horseradish (1:29)
Herbs
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Herb Gardening CMG GardenNotes #731
- Italian Kitchen Garden Plants – Planttalk #1047
- Basil – Planttalk #1055
- Herb Gardening – CMG GardenNotes #731
- Indoor Herb Garden – Planttalk #1056
- Parsley – Planttalk #1059
- Planting and Plants for an Herb Garden – Planttalk #1003
- Thyme – Planttalk #1063
- Growing, Preserving and Using Herbs – Extension Fact Sheet #9.335
- VIDEO: Herb Gardening (9:09)
Kale
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Cool Season Leafy Green Varieties – Planttalk #1804
- Cultural Tips for Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1820
- Harvesting Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1810
- Health Benefits and Safe Handling of Salad Greens – Fact Sheet #9.373
- Kale – Planttalk #1821
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Second Crops – Planttalk #1825
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Kohlrabi
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Planting Cole Crops (16:49)
Leeks
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
Lettuce and Leafy Greens
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Cool Season Leafy Green Varieties – Planttalk #1804
- Cultural Tips for Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1820
- Harvesting Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1810
- Health Benefits and Safe Handling of Salad Greens – Fact Sheet #9.373
- Spicy Greens – Planttalk #1815
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- VIDEO: Growing Microgreens and Sprouts
- VIDEO: Planting a Salad – Direct Seeding Radishes, Spinach & Lettuce (11:01)
Melons
- Vine Crops – Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash, and Melons – Extension Fact Sheet #7.609
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Hand Pollination & Determining Male/Female Flowers (2:56)
Onions
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Growing Onions from Seed – Planttalk #1808
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- VIDEO: Thinning Onions (2:43)
Parsnips
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
Peas
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- VIDEO: Planting Snow Peas (2:25)
Peppers
- Peppers and Eggplant – Fact Sheet #7.616
- Chile Peppers – Planttalk #1803
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- VIDEO: Planting & Growing Peppers (10:42)
Potatoes
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- Potatoes in the Home Garden – Fact Sheet #7.617
- VIDEO: Planting Potatoes (3:19)
- VIDEO: Update on Potatoes (2:52)
- VIDEO: Planting & Growing Potatoes (16:36)
Pumpkins
- Vine Crops – Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash, and Melons – Extension Fact Sheet #7.609
- Baby Pumpkins – Planttalk #1801
- Growing Great Pumpkins – Planttalk #1807
- Harvesting Pumpkins – Planttalk #1829
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- VIDEO: Hand Pollination & Determining Male/Female Flowers (2:56)
Radish
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
- VIDEO: Planting a Salad – Direct Seeding Radishes, Spinach & Lettuce (11:01)
- VIDEO: Planting Radish, Beet & Carrot Seeds and Asparagus Roots (4:43)
Rhubarb
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- VIDEO: Harvesting Rhubarb (2:04)
Spinach
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Cool Season Leafy Green Varieties – Planttalk #1804
- Cultural Tips for Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1820
- Harvesting Leafy Vegetables – Planttalk #1810
- Health Benefits and Safe Handling of Salad Greens – Fact Sheet #9.37
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- VIDEO: Planting a Salad – Direct Seeding Radishes, Spinach & Lettuce (11:01)
Summer Squash/Zucchini
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Vine Crops – Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash, and Melons – Extension Fact Sheet #7.609
- Cucumbers and Squash – Planttalk #1805
- Harvesting Fall Squash – Planttalk #1849
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- VIDEO: Hand Pollination & Determining Male/Female Flowers (2:56)
Swiss Chard
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
Tomatoes
- Tomato Early Blight CMG GardenNotes #718
- Tomatoes – Recognizing Tomato Problems – Extension Fact Sheet #2.949
- Common Tomato Problems – PlantTalk 1834
- Growing Tomatoes – CMG GardenNotes #717
- Harvesting and Ripening Tomatoes – Planttalk #1832
- How To Ripen Green Tomatoes – Planttalk #1844
- Ripening Tomatoes Indoors – Planttalk #1831
- Tomatoes for Home Gardens – Planttalk #1817
- Upside Down Tomatoes-do they work? – Planttalk #1846
- Italian Kitchen Garden Plants – Planttalk #1047
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- Tomato Diseases – Planttalk #1442
- Tomato Questions Abound in Heat – Planttalk #1835
- Tomatoes for Home Gardens – Planttalk #1817
- Tomato Varieties for Colorado – Larimer County Research Results
- How to Grow Tomatoes in Buckets – Handout, San Miguel Basin Resource
- VIDEO: How to Plant a Tomato (3:38)
- VIDEO: Getting Started with Tomatoes (18:08)
- VIDEO: Selecting Tomatoes (3:47)
- VIDEO: Growing Tomatoes in Colorado (18:08)
- VIDEO: Tomato Problems (5:31)
- VIDEO: Growing Tomatoes in Buckets (7:25) | Handout: How to Grow Tomatoes in Buckets
- WEBINAR: Tomato Tips and Tricks (53:41)
Turnips
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Second Crops – Planttalk #1825
- Time to Seed Fall Vegetables – Planttalk #1841
- Root Vegetables – Planttalk #1813
Winter Squash
- Vegetable Planting Guide CMG GardenNotes #720
- Vine Crops – Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Squash, and Melons – Extension Fact Sheet #7.609
- Harvesting Fall Squash – Planttalk #1849
- VIDEO: Hand Pollination & Determining Male/Female Flowers (2:56)
See below for some general information about growing crops in Colorado:
- Growing Cool Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1806
- Early Vegetable Planting & Soil Preparation – Planttalk # 1843
- Growing Warm Season Vegetables – Planttalk #1809
- Buying and Hardening Transplants – Planttalk #1802
- Transplanting into the Garden – Planttalk #1818
- Time to seed fall vegetables – Planttalk #1841
