Blue Shed Urban Gardens

08/06/2026

I have two tomato varieties in my garden this year-Brandywine and Two Hawks- with a potato leaf. This kind of leaf is more substantial and seems to be more susceptible to red aphids and spider mites (at least in my garden).

During the WPENA Garden Tour on Saturday many visitors asked about my pest management practices. The general answer is, not much, and honestly I try NOT to ‘manage’ them. All insects are a food source for somebody and who am I to take that food source away?

That being said I do work alongside my ladybug friends and spray the aphids off with a water bottle a couple times a week until they get more established. The leaves are able to survive a little damage and can be snapped off later. Sometimes I use soapy water but usually just plain tap. This way the bugs are still left in the garden (albeit not on the leaves of my beloved tomatoes) for others to forage.

Now potato bugs, they’re a tougher crowd….still working on that one after they devoured 3 squash plants in 24 hours😫

03/06/2026

We are excited to be a part of this year’s Blooms and Buzz Garden Tour! will be set up in the front as our Table Host so you can learn about both of our organizations in one stop☺️

We will be offering cold lavender lemonade and mini-rhubarb muffins (lavender and rhubarb from the garden) for your sipping and nibbling enjoyment.
Our garden and seed library will also be open, free seeds for the taking.

There are some amazing gardens on this tour so plan on making a morning of it🌱🌺
Hope to see you this Saturday, June 6th from 10-1:00!!

27/05/2026

My porch this morning 🌺🌸🌱Thank you, Jill Fielder, for being one of the most generous people on the planet. Master Gardener, friend, educator and Queen of the Zinnias she puts love and care into everything she does. She is a weekly contributor to our porch pantry and dedicates the produce and flowers she grows at her plot at Steele to others. I feel privileged and honored to know her❤️

These buckets of beauties (+Mint) are going to and distributed at their food share this afternoon.

23/05/2026

Since our plant sale, I’ve been busy distributing plants that were ordered and finding homes for those remaining.

Thanks to:
🌱 and who picked up seedlings for the garden community at New Freedom Park. We grew culturally-specific crops for this group of growers.

🌱Nina Roumell from will be distributing the plants they ordered earlier this spring, throughout the Globeville/Elyria-Swansea community during their backyard gardening day next month.

🌱Matt Suprunowicz picked up 100’s of ‘remnants’ for the 55 school gardens they manage throughout the metro area. He even took the quinoa🙏🏼

And the last shout out goes to:
🌱Holly Harper (forgot to take a photo) who took the remaining flowers, cherry and heirloom tomatoes to plant on her farm and to share with her community of growers.

My heart is full and my patio/shed are empty😅

Have a nice weekend everyone and thanks for all your support this month❤️

22/05/2026

Thanks to the lovely moisture and cool weather I had a nice little harvest of red Russian kale, Siberian Kale, mint, mustard greens, Fordhook and Rainbow Chard and Radishes for the University Church of Christ Food Bank this morning❤️Thank you Mother Nature!

19/05/2026

The cool season crops around here are thriving with the cold temps and moisture. Radishes, lettuce, red orach, peas, kale, mustard, chard, fava beans and Napa cabbage are enjoying probably the last days of what is typically March-like weather. Last night’s salad was crunchy, tasty and quite beautiful.🥬❤️

The warm-season crops are waiting patiently in the shed for planting this weekend and a pot of peppers I planted last week have been covered with a box these last two nights.

May has featured days with sun so intense it causes sunscald on tender leaves and temps in the mid to upper 80’s (the yellow flowers are baby bok choi that bolted🤷🏻‍♀️). But it has also brought heavy wet snow and nighttime temps hovering just above freezing. It’s enough to give both plants and gardeners whiplash, and is a not-so-gentle reminder that mama nature is ultimately in charge🌎

Hope you all are hanging in there, and celebrating this rainy week💦

11/05/2026

Thanks to all who showed up for us this past Saturday, wow-whee, we had a great time and hope you went home with a box of garden goodies🌻🌺🍆🥒🍅🥬

Because we started with 3700 plants, we still have a few hundred available.
Though we are out of many varieties and almost all herbs, we still have chilies, Italian peppers, eggplant (both Italian and Asian), cucumbers, summer and winter squash, miniature and drought-tolerant melons, heirloom tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, a few greens and a shelving unit of flowers with some perennials mixed in.

I am opening the patio later this afternoon, Monday, May 11th from 4-7:00 and Thursday morning, May 14th, from 9-noon in case you missed the sale (or think you need more plants, lol).

We are done selling after Thursday and encourage you to check out the amazing sales happening this weekend including the CSU Master Gardeners sale at Harvard Gulch Front Range Organic Gardeners sale on Saturday morning at Highlands Church and sale 🌱❤️

It’s a great time to be a plant addict.

06/05/2026

The featured product of the sale is of course our seedlings, HOWEVER I am posting today about our additional offerings 🥳

We have T-shirts this year-whoop!! Thanks to daughter #3 who designed and gifted the original for my birthday this year, we have a limited quantity and sizes for $25.

Secondly, Keith Reed will be on hand to discuss your garden concerns. Keith, of Keith’s Garden Solutions, was an Oklahoma State Extension Agent which makes him better than Google, or ChatGBT and he’s a whole lot funnier😉

I have designed some pots for Mother’s Day (or for yourself!) that boast both annuals, re-seeders and perennials that you can plant out in your garden once they’ve finished blooming. I hope you like them because I sure had fun creating them☺️🌸
And for your Sunday Brunch we have Liz Cervantes’ outrageously delicious cinnamon rolls, selling for $25 a box. Proceeds go to her daughter, (and my helper) Michelle who attends DU. There will also be a bit of jam leftover from our holiday sale and a few bags of garden greens.

And lastly but not least-ly my friend and woodworker extraordinaire, Joe Fleenor, will be selling his trellises again this year. You might take a peek at the seed library he built for me as well. It will be filled with seeds for you to take home.

🐝 As a side note, I have a bee hive in the back corner of the property this year. This section will be blocked off but if you have a bee allergy please bring your EpiPen (however they really want nothing to do with you as there are much more tasty treats in the garden).

See ya Saturday after the snow melts⛄️

05/05/2026

04/05/2026

Please come, please share and we’ll hope to see you here on Saturday🌱🍆🍅🌻🌺🥒🫜🫑🌶️🌸