Marathon County

Help Protect Our Water Resources A rain garden is a depressed area in the lawn that forms a bioretention area. It allows water to collect and slowly seep into the ground. This excess water, called runoff, causes the soil in its path to erode more rapidly than it would naturally. Gravity then causes this runoff [...]

Saturday, May 19th, 2012 Join fellow garden enthusiast at the annual plant sale Saturday, May 19th, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Marathon Park Cattle Barn in Wausau. Sponsored by North Central Wisconsin Master Gardener Association, this sale will be offering large healthy plant divisions and seedlings right from the gardens of Master Gardener volunteers. Find anything [...]

As fall arrives and yard clean-up is underway, residents are looking for a place to take yard waste. The Wausau-area offers several locations available to drop off yard waste. Waste items include leaves, grass, pine needles, garden and flower debris, small tree branches, and brush. Each site carries some restrictions. City of Wausau For Wausau [...]

Get Started This Spring with Container & Square Foot Gardening Economic conditions are making it more difficult for Marathon County residents to afford fresh produce. There are many reasons for people to garden, yet urban living can discourage people from gardening. In response the Marathon County UW-Extension developed and created gardening methods to raise awareness and help [...]

Oak Wilt Season Arrives Earlier Due to Warm Spring Oak wilt is a deadly tree disease caused by a fungus. It can kill even healthy oak trees quickly and, left unchecked, can spread quickly. It can spread underground through root contact from neighboring trees, overland via sap-feeding beetles, and from infected firewood that has been [...]

Monday, June 4, 2012 Have you ever seen an insect in your garden and wondered what it was? Is it good for your plants or bad Should you encourage it to live in your garden or try to get rid of it? What is the safest way to do this? Paul Whitaker, an Associate Professor [...]

Christmas Trees tend to be a matter of preference and tradition for most families. The look, the smell, the way ornaments hang and can be seen, the way the needles stay on or don’t stay on the tree are all things that I hear people talk about when they consider what kind of tree to [...]

Home Food Preservation There are 3 main methods of food preservation: canning, freezing and drying. The method you choose will depend on whether there are safe guidelines for preserving your food using that method; and which method best suits your needs. For instance, you may want to can a new salsa recipe, but if there [...]