Barron County Master Gardeners
Mission Statement
The goal of this organization shall be to encourage, foster, support and promote Horticulture
for all Master Gardener Volunteers and residents of Barron County
and to promote the UW-Extension from which we are founded
More Information
Plant Health Advisor Course description Interested in Becoming a Master Gardener?
Bylaws-revised February 2009 New training begins in Sept, 2012.
Training Information Brochure 2010 Contact contact UW-Extension
Timesheet 2011 (pdf) Barron County @ 715-537-6404,
Timesheet2011 (doc) 330 LaSalle Ave, Barron WI, 54812
or see WI Master Gardeners
Tim.jergenson@ces.edu
Barron County Master Gardeners meet once a month at 7:00pm Barron County Government Center in Room 110. The schedule for the rest of the year is as follows.
January 2012 – No scheduled meeting.
February 2, 2012 – Richard Koehn – Honeybees in Our Garden.
Richard is a dairy farmer from the Almena area who started beekeeping in 1998 with three bee colonies and has grown his operation to 100 colonies today.
February 4, 2012 – Eau Claire Master Gardeners Ready, Set, Grow Winter Garden Seminar at the Chippewa Valley Tech School.
February 11, 2012 - Eau Claire Master Gardeners are planning a bus trip to the Madison Garden Expo at the Alliant Energy Center. Members are welcome to signup for this bus trip.
March 1, 2012 – Kent Hedeen of Kent’s Perennials and wild Bird Seed in St. Croix Falls will present a program entitled, “New and Unusual Perennials for 2012.”
March 17, 2012 - Northwoods Gardening Seminar at Minong.
April 5, 2012 – Carol Kettner will present a program on the tropical horticulture of Costa Rica.
April 14, 2012 – Barron County Master Gardeners Spring Expo at WITC Conference Center in Rice Lake.
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Don Engelbretson – featured speaker, The Renegade Gardener. He has published 5 books on gardening and landscaping, including the popular “Gardening Month by Month in Minnesota and Wisconsin.”
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Brian Smith – UW-River Falls Extension Fruit Specialist, will present a program on raspberries, strawberries, and other small fruits.
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Tim Jergenson – Barron County Agricultural Agent, will talk about Japanese Beetles and stink bugs
May 3, 2012 – Steve Sykora from Everwilde Farms in Bloomer will present “The Wonderful World of Wildflowers.”
Steve began planting wildflower seeds in 1997. By 2000, he was ready to make the big step to leave his job at a local engineering firm and grow wildflowers full time and accomplish some firsts in wildflower seed production. In 2006, the farm was named Everwilde Farms and he began offering seeds to the public.
May 18 2012 - Setup for plant sale at the Barron County Fairgrounds.
May 19, 2012 – Annual plant sale at the fairgrounds in Rice Lake. Start time for the sale is 8:00 a.m.
Jun 7, 2012 – Potlick picnic at the Barron County Museum in Cameron. 6:00 p.m.
Jun 21, 2o012 – The Barron County Master Gardeners and the Rice Lake Area Garden Club will again be welcomed into Richard and Karen Witt’s private hosta garden near Eau Claire.
July 5, 2012 - Potluck picnic at Lucas Wests’s and his parents home at Turtle Lake, 6:00 p.m.
July 18-22, 2012 - Barron County Fair
August 2, 2012 – Potluck and garden tour at Judy and Cy LaTendresses’ rual Cameron home, 6:00 p.m.
September 6, 2012 – Glen Wegner will present a program on Rain Gardens.
October 4, 2012 – Starla Enger, co-owner of My Sister’s Garden, a nursery in Hudgon, will present a program entitled “Knowing Your Dirt.”
She will bring soil samples for hands-on demonstrations of some different compositions of soils – loam, sand, and clay. She also will talk about the chemical and physical properties of a healthy soil.
November 1, 2012 – Judy Robison, Master Gardener from Eau Claire, will present a program, “Lasagna-Gardening.”
This is a no-dig, n0-till organic method of building your garden soil. The gardener starts with a layer of cardboard or newspapers, and then adds layers of yard and kitchen wastes that “cook down” over time.
December 6, 2012 – Christmas Party, 6:00 p.m., at the Barron County Government Center.
Below are a few interesting and hopefully helpful articles
Anthracnose on oak Creeping Charlie
Bronze Birch Borer Gevens Late Blight Tomato 2010 pdf
Cedar Apple Rust Grub Control in lawn Care Sap-sucker Damage
Common Veggie Insects Homeowner Guide to EAB InsecticideTreatments Aug2008
Imprelis Damage to Conifers insectides for ash borer Pruning Evergreens
Japanese Beetle – Lab note Japanese Beetle Organic tomato Late Blight
Larder Beetle fact sheet Lawn Weed Control Spruce Gall Fact Sheet Ohio State University Extension
