Drag Out the Watering Hose!

Don't be fooled.  It may not be warm, but it sure is dry.  With our extreme weather, we need to do what we can to prevent any plant stress.  There is a big difference between moisture for a plant to survive and watering so your plants will thrive.  Here, it can be the difference between a beautiful garden and no garden at all.

Remember to provide water for our pollinators!

If you are in the area, you might consider a visit to the Hancock Agricultural Research Station Gardens, August 6, from 4 PM to 7 PM.

There is a nice display of grasses this year.

The several year old coneflower collection points out something I have been thinking for several years now... (and it is/was a collection not a mass planting).

Hancock Agricultural Research Station

The Master Gardeners are having an open house (August 7, 4 to 7 P.M.) at the Hancock, WI Research Station just off I-39/51. Anyone interested in growing grapes in Wisconsin should attend. Other points of interest might be the prairie planting, soybeans, or just the multi-year test of all those fancy coneflowers that are too pricey for a typical owner to try all at one time.

They have also been demonstrating different types of gardening styles; a raised bed herb garden, square foot gardening, and different caging and netting methods.

And although this is a small garden from botanical garden comparisons, they do have a nice water feature, and an interesting display of Depression era hand farm tools and machinery, although the machinery is used in the garden bed displays as sculptural elements.