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Informational Resources for Wisconsin Gardeners

Planted January 1, 2000
Last tended to on October 25, 2024
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University of Wisconsin-Madison

• The Wisconsin Master Gardener Program
• Lawn and Garden Publications

“Short-Season Vegetable Gardening” (PDF) – Written for the Pacific NW but many principles apply.

Recommended Books:

• “Midwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening is written exclusively for gardeners who want to grow edibles in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. Whether you live in the Badlands, the Dells, the Quad Cities, or anywhere else in the Midwestern United States, you’ll discover the best fruit and vegetable plants for your garden in this beautiful step-by-step how-to guide … and they’ll be on your table before you know it.

• “Midwest Gardener’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select - Plan - Plant - Maintain - Problem-solve - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin,” by Melinda Myers. Learn how to plant, prune, water, control pests, and continually care for your personal outdoor oasis. A helpful icon key highlights each featured plant’s benefits, along with its particular sun and shade requirements. Featured plant categories discuss annuals, bulbs, edibles, ferns and groundcovers, ornamental grasses, perennials, roses, shrubs, trees, turfgrasses, and vines. Each plant is showcased with specific advice on how, when, and where to plant; growing tips, such as watering requirements; and descriptions of routine care. Alongside these “nitty-gritty” aspects of planting and growing, Myers shares her inspiration for garden design, the various ways you can beautifully incorporate plants into your landscape, and her favorite cultivars and species. Even better, she provides twelve full months of when-to advice for each plant category, allowing you to successfully enjoy this peaceful pastime all year round.

• “Minnesota & Wisconsin Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have A Beautiful Garden All Year,” by Melinda Myers. The definitive monthly manual of “when to” and “how to” information every Minnesota and Wisconsin homeowner needs to be a successful landscape gardener. All major plant types – from flowers and groundcovers to trees and shrubs, and everything in between – are featured.

• “Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates,” by John Whitman. Fresh is simply best. To get the tastiest, most nutritious produce, you have to grow your own, and in a cold climate this presents unique challenges. Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and herbs, right in your own backyard. The guide includes more than 150 edible plants and helps you decide which varieties to choose; where and how to plant, tend, and harvest them; and what to do with your bounty. Fresh from the Garden is a clear, concise (yet comprehensive) guide, with nutrition information tables and hundreds of helpful color photographs. A gardening text book!

• “Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times,” by Steve Solomon (founder of the Territorial Seed Company and self-sufficiency advocate, he is currently homesteading in Tasmania). This is a more advanced book for those who are serious about raising food. In this volume, Steve explains why intensive gardening methods are not natural and therefore require great amounts of energy and effort to maintain. A lot of information regarding soil health and cover cropping is included.

Organizations:

• Wisconsin Garden Club Federation
• Botanical Club of Wisconsin

Places to Visit:

• Cofrin Memorial Arboretum – University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311
• Green Bay Botanical Garden – 2600 Larsen Road, Green Bay, WI
• Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary & Arboretum – 880 Green Bay Road (Highway 31), Kenosha, WI 53144
• Olbrich Botanical Gardens – 3330 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI 53704
• Old World Wisconsin – S103 W37890 Highway 67, Eagle, WI 53119
• Paine Art Center and Gardens – 1410 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI 54901
• University of Wisconsin Arboretum – 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, WI 53711

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