Waukesha County

In the past few weeks you have probably noticed dame’s rocket beautiful blooms, but did you know that this beautiful plant is also invasive? Dame’s rocket was introduced to North America in the 1600’s.  It is often found in moist, wooded areas, but has the ability to also invade open areas. The plant’s three-month-long blooming [...]

Don’t fertilize your tomatoes until the first fruit has started to form. Too much nitrogen makes leaves grow instead of the flowers, which are what turn into the tomatoes. Most other vegetable plants benefit from a starter fertilizer when transplanted. Now is great time to mulch the rootzone around your tomato plants. Use 1 – [...]

Anthracnose is the name of several common fungal diseases that affect the foliage of trees in Wisconsin when weather conditions are cool and moist. Trees that are most commonly and severely affected by anthracnose include ash, maple, white oak, sycamore, and walnut.  Anthracnose typically affects young leaf tissue.  Symptoms of anthracnose vary, but in general, [...]

Residents of Waukesha’s Tower Hill neighborhood are invited to garden with their neighbors at the Tower Hill Community Garden starting Tuesday, June 4th at 6:00 pm. Plants, seeds, and gardening tools will be provided.  Each Tuesday evening at 6:00 pm throughout the summer, gardeners will gather together to plant, weed, water, and harvest the vegetables.  [...]

Call the Waukesha County UW Cooperative Extension Horticulture Helpline at 262-548-7779.   This is a free phone service for callers to speak with a trained UW Extension Master Gardener volunteer regarding plant, bug or soil questions. Our telephone hours for the Horticulture Helpline are presently Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon. The phone line [...]

There’s nothing like a crabapple tree.  Each spring the crabapple offers a beautiful display of fragrant flowers that can’t be beat!  In the other seasons it can offer handsome leaves, eye-catching colorful fruit and sometimes unusual bark colors and textures and interesting growth habits.  Crabapples are very popular.  In fact, they are the most popular [...]