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Gardening Articles
Research-based horticulture information to help keep your plants and gardens thriving.
Landscape Structures
This article discusses common landscape structures, including hardscapes, driveways, walks, steps, decks and patios, retaining walls, fences, and lights.
Selecting Landscape Plants
Three things to consider in selecting plants are plant hardiness, site conditions, and visual and functional suitability for your landscape design.
Low-Maintenance Landscapes
All plants and structures require some maintenance, but you can choose the level of maintenance your landscape will require. If you don’t enjoy or have time for regular lawn and garden work, aim for a low-maintenance landscape.
Landscape Style Options
The geometric forms of buildings and natural elements both suggest design patterns. Landscape styles are divided into four categories in which varying proportions of geometric and naturalistic patterns are combined.
Landscape Planning
Whether you design on the computer or on paper, the concepts illustrated in this article will help you achieve a successful plan.
Landscape Design Principles
Successful landscape designs have certain underlying principles in common, including unity, balance, emphasis, scale, space, and lines.
Apple Pest Management for Home Gardeners
Home gardens with only a few trees make limiting pesticide use feasible while still producing a great crop of apples. This publication outlines basic principles of pest management for home-grown apples.
Codling Moth
Codling moth is an insect pest of apple, pear, and walnut crops in Wisconsin. Larval feeding can render fruit unmarketable, potentially causing severe economic loss. Learn how to identify, monitor, and deter this insect pest.
Plum Curculio
Plum curculio is one of the most common and detrimental pests of apple and other fruits in Wisconsin. Learn about the life cycle, damage patterns, and control options to effectively manage plum curculio.
Home Fruit Cultivars of Northern Wisconsin
Find out which fruit cultivars are recommended for your area of Northern Wisconsin. This article includes tree fruits, stone fruits and small fruits, and describes flavor, ripening date, hardiness and more.
Home Fruit Cultivars for Southern Wisconsin
Find out which fruit cultivars are recommended for Southern Wisconsin. This publication describes flavor, ripening date, winter hardiness, and more, and includes tree fruits, stone fruits and small fruits.
Bagging Apples for Insect and Disease Control
Producing apples in home gardens can be challenging due to damage by insects and fungal diseases. One effective organic solution is placing developing fruit in bags. This factsheet describes the process.
