The Littleton Garden Gang, as distinct from the older and revered Littleton Garden Club, started when Betty HARRIS began teaching classes on how to grow more food in Colorado with less water. the focus was also on soil, composting, native plants, and pollinators.

These classes came about because Betty received a grant from the City of Littleton, Colorado, a part of Arapahoe County, for part of the tuition for a nine-day class at the Woodbine Ecology Center. As a condition of this grant, Betty was requested to disseminate what information she had learned at the Woodbine facility.

Betty includes in her classes such things as how to make soil (which is biology) out of our Colorado clay and dirt (which is chemistry) and provides links to other information like transplanting in the fall.

Every Spring in May the Littleton Garden Gang Annual Plant Sale is held.
Henry Gong took wonderful photos of our event.

Orion Nature and Culture has an article called Dirt First.

Grow Veg has an article about six genius vertical gardening ideas.

Colorado Native Plant Society has info about plants native to the state of Colorado.

Colorado Tree Recommendations (Denver_Tree_Recommendations.xls) is a spreadsheet that you can ask Betty for.

2025 LGG Garden Project of putting Betty's garden to bed.
Making it ready for Winter.

Starting out front,
we moved mulch from the gravel
to the pollinator flower beds also out front.

This photo does not show all the people
working at the same time in the back yard.

All of these raised beds
have been blanketed and put to bed.

left: Evaluating a problem of a
shifting raised bed box.

right: Replaced the raised bed
since the boards were all rotted out.

A video of one garden in the 2024 LGG garden tour.

LGG Annual Garden Tour of JUST ONE location.
Next year we'll ask all the participants to attempt to make videos for those that can't attend.

Here is a list of WHEN TO PLANT what by Paul Szilard.

Since the Planet is in a climate crisis and the citizens need to be involved in solutions, then garden gang members might want to consider joining Citizens Climate Lobby to help push elected officials.

Sometimes we study companion planting and here is an additional separate link from The Old Farmer's Almanac.

We often study recycling opportunities.

Here is Donna Berti's document showing plants that pollinators do like.

Flowers for Bees.

Here is a document by Donna Berti showing what plants Japanese Beetles do NOT like.

Here is how to grow blueberries in Colorado.

Here is info concerning saving seeds in Colorado.

Here is info on better Colorado trees. It is a spreadsheet; so download it, save it, and open it.


Write to Betty via email.