Seed Starting
Starting your garden from seeds might be easier than you think. Check out this article to get practical tips on starting your plants from seeds.
Selecting & Planting
Growing Vegetables at Home: Questions and Answers
Here are answers to the questions gardeners ask most often about growing vegetables. From asparagus to watercress, this guide covers over 50 vegetables plus other basic gardening topics.
Growing Vegetables in Containers
This article provides practical tips on growing plants in containers. With a few tips, growing plants in containers can be easy!
Homegrown Tomatoes for Wisconsin
Tomatoes are one of the most nutritionally rich of all vegetables, and grown easily in the home garden. Here’s how to get started and care for tomatoes from planting to harvest.
Raised Beds and Containers for Community Gardens
Above-ground gardening offers access for gardeners of all ages and abilities. This publication highlights key considerations for raised beds and containers, including construction, selection, soil, planting, and irrigation.
The Vegetable Garden
This detailed publication covers all the fundamentals of vegetable gardening, including plant selection, management and harvesting, to help home gardeners be successful.
Common Crops for Community Gardens – People + Plants
Want to maximize your garden’s productivity and minimize potential crop problems? This publication will walk you through the basics of the most common crops grown in community gardens.
Growing Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, and Other Cole Crops in Wisconsin
This detailed publication is packed with practical information for organic and conventional growers of cole crops, including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale and kohlrabi.
Growing Carrots, Beets, Radishes, and Other Root Crops in Wisconsin
This detailed publication provides practical information for organic and conventional growers of root crops including carrots, radishes, beets, parsnips, rutabagas, and turnips.
Growing Pumpkins and Other Vine Crops in Wisconsin
This publication has detailed information for growers of vine crops such as pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, gourds and squash, including selecting, planting, managing and harvesting in Wisconsin.
Vegetable Varieties for Containers
Growing plants in containers (referred to as container gardening) is an easy way to grow and maintain vegetables. Find suggested varieties suitable for container gardening here.
Rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum
Rhubarb is an old-fashioned perennial is very easy to grow and is an early season harvest from the garden. Rhubarb can also be used as an edible landscape plant. This article provides some history and how to grow rhubarb in gardens and landscapes.
