Blue Shed Urban Gardens

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🌱🍆🍅🌻🌺🥒🫜🫑🌶️🌸

03/05/2026

Prescott Fond Blanc Melon and Hopi Origin Titus Melon are both drought-tolerant cantaloupe offered by in Paonia and in the Cortez.

About Prescott Fond Blanc from ….
Once our farmers market customers got over the odd look of this cantaloupe and smelled the intoxicating fragrance, they were hooked. This variety is drought-tolerant and does well in our short season. They enjoy some drought stress to ripen and take on an intoxicating sweetness and aroma. A prized French melon, these have a squat and ribbed shape with bumpy skin. Their grey/green skin turns straw color when ripe with salmon-orange flesh. Prescott will not slip and is best picked slightly immaturely and left to ripen on the counter. Documented by Vilmorin in Les Plantes Potageres (1883) and most likely in the US as early as the 1850s.

And what says about the Hopi Titus Melon…
We received the original seed stock from Grandfather Titus’ farm, renowned traditional Hopi farmer. We love how drought tolerant and easy to grow these melons are in our Southwestern garden; and how they produce abundant, perfectly sized fruits for snacking in the summer heat. Fruits are dripping and sweet but not overly sweet so we can eat a whole melon and not feel overly “sugared”!

Both will be available at our sale this Saturday May 9th from 9-2:00. Hope to see you there!

01/05/2026

We will have two heat-tolerant greens at our sale this year, Yukina Savoy a nutritious alternative to tatsoi that tolerates heat better than many other Asian greens. Delicious eaten raw when young or braised when mature.

Ethiopian Kale is a dark leafy green with a uniquely tender, mildly sweet flavor. Unlike most kale varieties this green has an uncanny ability to withstand pests. It is delicious braised or used as a baby leaf in salads. Another interesting tidbit, it is a prolific seed producer and oil can be extracted from the seed, giving it potential as a bio-fuel. Aren’t plants amazing?

Both of these climate-adapted varieties are brought to you by in Paonia. Come check them out at our plant next Saturday, May 9th!!

If you’d like more information about our sale please read our newsletter sent out today May 1st. Find the link in our linktree in bio.