June is Wisconsin’s Invasive Species Awareness Month, but May is a better time to control the invasive plants growing on your property. Plants are smaller and easier to remove and mosquitoes and deerflies haven’t yet arrived to make the work miserable. It is likely that you have invasive plants in your landscape. Buckthorn is a [Continue]
Over the years, plant breeders have spent tremendous amounts of time and money trying to produce flowers that bloom in beautiful blue, but haven’t had much success. Mother Nature, however, easily hit a home run the first time at bat with chicory. Its pure sky-blue blooms line the gravelly edges of Wisconsin roadsides, abandoned railroads, [Continue]
Every year I experiment with a new vegetable, herb, fruit or flower in my garden. Not this year. This year, in my new home, everything is different. The soil, light conditions, wind, water, surrounding vegetation, weeds, insect pests, the deer population, whatever critters live along the riverbank; it’s all unfamiliar. The ecosystem I created [Continue]