Preventing Winter Animal Damage To Plants

[For information on identifying damage to your plants, read our article: Spot Animal Damage To Your Landscape.] If you haven’t protected your plants from animal damage yet, you still have time. Winter in northern climates is part of the natural process for...

Spot Animal Damage To Your Landscape

If you are observant you can take action as soon as you see animal damage in your landscape before it is too late! Every year I am amazed at the number of people who say they don’t have deer problems where they live in central Wisconsin. Yet, they have noticed...

Putting Plants to Bed and Other Fairy Tales

Have you ever noticed around Halloween that some properties look just plain scary? Over night big, white styrofoam barrels appear, shrubs are wrapped in tattered burlap and straw is strewn about. Sometimes you even see elaborately constructed “gallows”...

Fall Planting Bliss

If you haven’t tried fall planting you are missing out on the easiest time of year to establish many types of plants. Bulbs, perennials, shrubs, trees and prairie plantings are all easier to plant in the fall. And most fall planting can go right up until the...