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.
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 email Betty about if you have trouble opening it.
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.
Video courtesy of Betty A. Harris.
The videographer apologizes for not being better at making videos.
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2024 Littleton Garden Gang Event Schedule: |
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Sat Dec 21 - Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ the season of the shortest day of the year Wed Dec 25 - 🎅 Merry Christmas ⛄ |
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2025 Littleton Garden Gang Event Schedule: |
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Wed Jan 1 - 🕛
Happy New Year 🍾 Sat Jan 11 - Gardening class & Seed Exchange - focusing on past and future success with some emphasis on preserving foods. 10am at the Prince of Peace Church of Brethren 7000 S. Windermere St., Littleton CO 80120 Please RSVP to Betty for planning purposes. Sat Jan 18 - Gardening class & Seed Exchange - Exact repeat of January 11th event. Wed Jan 29 - This is Betty's Birthday  and Wedding Anniversary  Fri Feb 14 - 💘 Happy Valentine's Day ❤️ Wed Feb 19 - This is Ray's Birthday Sat Mar 1 - Start planting seeds inside for this year. This means you will need inside growing space with light or a heated greenhouse space. Consider the heating costs of planting before April. Pepper seeds should be started first because they take a lot longer to sprout! Mon Mar 17 - ☘️ Happy St Patrick's Day 🍀 This is a good time to do the following: Plant potato sets, green peas, and onion sets outside in your garden. Fri Mar 21 - Celebrate the Vernal Equinox the First Day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere halfway between the Summer and Winter Solstices |
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Write to Betty at <betty@littletongardengang.com> |
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 concerning saving seeds in Colorado.
Write to Betty via email.
Sponsored by Betty Harris and Ray Flesher
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Write to Betty's website administrator via email.