September is a busy time in the garden, especially this year when everything seemed to get a late start. If your garden is like mine, it’s just reaching peak vegetable and flower production. There is still much to be done. In the vegetable garden, harvesting of zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, beans, squash and cucumbers continues. [Continue]
Along with maple, the tree that most Wisconsinites can identify is the mighty oak. My entirely unscientific research turned up hundreds of poems written about oak trees, almost as many as are written about love and love lost. Often people will leave an oak standing in an inconvenient location rather than fell it. In 2004 [Continue]
Just when you’re all ready to harvest big bunches of basil to make pesto, basil jam, a salad, a fruity basil drink or margherita pizza, you notice that your basil isn’t looking so good. What happened? Basil is generally easy to grow and has few problems, but there is a new basil disease, downy [Continue]