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Gardening Articles
Research-based horticulture information to help keep your plants and gardens thriving.
Specialized Gardening Techniques: Wide-Row Planting, Square-Foot Gardening and Raised Beds
Learn how to make the most of your garden. Features tips for setting up and planting raised beds, including wheelchair access.
Fall Vegetables
Emerging Agricultural Markets Team Revised: 8/6/2012 Item number: A3900-04 Many fall vegetables have unique flavors, and under proper storage conditions, some types of fall vegetables can last for months. This pamphlet offers tasty recipes and helpful tips for buying, storing, and cooking beets, Brussels sprouts, and winter squash (4 pages).
Spring Vegetables
Emerging Agricultural Markets Team Revised: 8/6/2012 Item number: A3900-01 The sight of spring vegetables at the farmers’ market means growing season has returned to Wisconsin. This pamphlet offers tasty recipes and helpful tips for buying, storing, and cooking asparagus, peas, and spinach (2 pages).
Growing Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplants in Wisconsin
This 24-page publication is packed with practical information for organic and conventional growers of these popular garden crops, and is tailored to Wisconsin’s growing conditions.
Growing Salad Greens in Wisconsin
Gain a deeper understanding of growing lettuce, spinach, endive, escarole, radicchio, witloof, and Swiss chard.
Honeylocust Disorder: Canker Diseases in Wisconsin
Honeylocust is a common street and landscape tree. This factsheet presents the signs and symptoms of canker diseases of honeylocusts and how to best treat them.
Managing Thrips in Greenhouses
Western flower thrips are likely the most serious pest of greenhouse crops in the world. Learn about these pests, the damage they cause, and management options in this factsheet.
Managing Mites in Greenhouses
Several types of mites can cause serious damage to a variety of greenhouse crops. Learn why mites are a problem in greenhouses, and what to do about them, in this factsheet.
Managing Aphids in Greenhouses
Aphids can be persistent and serious pests in the greenhouse, and can be difficult to control due to high reproductive capability and insecticide resistance. Learn more in this factsheet.
Ralstonia Wilt
Ralstonia wilt is a usually lethal disease that affects a wide variety of vegetable and ornamental plants. Learn about symptoms and how to avoid problems with Ralstonia in this factsheet.
Powdery Mildew – Vegetables
Powdery mildew occurs on the above-ground parts, especially leaves, of many agricultural crops (including vegetables) as well as many ornamental plants, trees and shrubs. Learn how to manage this disease here.
Potato Scab
This article covers potato scab, a common disease of potato tubers, and can also affect other root vegetables. Learn how to identify and manage this disease in your garden.
