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JUNEAU COUNTY
MASTER GARDENERS NEWSLETTER
December 2019
UW-Madison | Division of Extension Juneau County
From the
Juneau County Master Gardeners
We wish you all
Very Merry “Green”
& Blessed Christmas And an
“Abundant &
Growing”
Happy New Year.
Season's Greetings
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When thinking of your Christmas list, gifts for gardeners are plentiful but how do you decide? A
garden journal or subscription to a gardening magazine or gift memberships to a local botanic garden or
nature center, and/or even a gift certificate from a garden center might be a useful and thoughtful
idea.
The multitude of tools and supplies that are out there are often a personal choice. Anything that
looks like a nifty new twist on a tool or technique are always a good bet that a gardener would be itching
to try. However almost any gardener would still appreciate the basics: gardening gloves with reinforced
or rubberized fingers, by-pass blade type pruners and loppers and pruning saws; tools with single piece
construction from the humble trowel to the long-handled spade; ergonomically designed tools to reduce
physical strain on wrists, backs and knees; kneeling pads; wheel barrow; mowers.
There are three surefire suggestions: Holiday gift plants such as poinsettia and Christmas cactus
or an amaryllis already potted and ready to grow. Finally your garden might also provide gifts to give
such as grapevine creations, dried arrangements and baskets of homegrown herbs, oils, vinegars and
potpourris.
With winter, the weather we have been having is very cold and windy already with the snow coming.
Just some reminders for all that cold and snow:
Shovel heavy snowdrifts off low-lying perennial beds, small shrubs and trees to prevent
damage.
Don’t shovel snow onto perennial beds: disturbed snow is compacted and denser and can
reduce oxygen to the soil.
After severe weather inspect plants for damage. Immediate repairs can save them rather
than be irreparable if neglected until spring.
Inspect stored vegetables for signs of spoilage. Use immediately if possible or discard.
Houseplants should be watered as needed and a shower with tepid water will give them a
boost as well as a bit of fertilizer.
Soon the spring garden catalogs will be coming in the mail. You can begin planning your
gardening projects for next year. Begin by reviewing this past year’s projects and revise as
needed adding and changing as needed. Think about what you want to do differently and what
you will do the same.
After Christmas, the discarded tree can benefit wildlife. By moving your
Christmas tree to the yard, you can provide a protection for birds; a place where
they can congregate and feed.
Another idea is to take the limbs from the tree and place them over plants to
protect them from winter winds or use these limbs to hold mulch in place.
And if you have the equipment, you could grind up your tree. Use the ground-
up mulch around plants or you can compost it for future use.
And think Spring !!!! We don't need a winter
that lasts forever and that seems to just hang on and on and on.
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Juneau County Master Gardener Projects :
Anyone interested in helping on any of these, please contact person listed. This is a great way to accumulate volunteer
support hours towards certification.
Adopt-a-Highway – Maureen Fox, 462-4228
Cleaning trash along Highway 58 South of Mauston
Boorman House – Margarete Hummelbeck, 562-3856
Garden renovation around the Juneau County Historical Society Boorman House
Watering and Shade Garden – Natty Kranz, 547-1884/Marion Koca, 847-4580/ Lutrelle Manna, 547-3213
Buckhorn State Park Project –
Maintain plantings and gardens around the office and cabins
Carl W. Nelson Animal Shelter – Jan Brendle, 565-7290/Rosemary Aney, 847-5558
Planting annuals and maintaining flower bed
Elroy Fair – Bev Kozlowski; 608-853-0300
Manning booth for distributing MG information and plant sales
Facebook Site – Beth Pusel, 547-6172/ Diane Hamm, 547-9404
Administrating and maintaining Facebook site
Juneau County Fair – Marsha Lubinski, 847-5166
Entering an Open Class Booth with MG information
Lyndon Station Veterans Memorial Park – Natty Kranz, 547-1884
Maintaining grounds
Mauston Food Pantry Flower Beds – Marsha Lubinski, 847-5166
Planting annuals and maintaining flower bed
New Lisbon City Planters – Arris Sullivan, 562-5181
Planting annuals and maintaining flower beds/planters
Necedah Nat'l Wildlife Refuge and Butterfly Program– Audrey Traver, 608-427-3761
Planting annuals and maintaining flower beds/planters
Stewart Chapel – Herb & Diane Dannenberg, 847-4395/Margie Miller, 847-5541
Planting annuals and maintaining flower beds/planters
In Sympathy
We offer our sympathy to Veronica Sustar and the family of John Sustar who passed away on December 10, 2019. John was with the Juneau County Master Gardener Volunteers from 2009 to 2014. The funeral service for John was held at St Patrick's Catholic Church in Mauston, WI on December 14, 2019. Our condolences to the family and friends.
CONGRATULATION And well done for JCMG Volunteers Marsha Lubinski
and Steve Stubbs for the Boorman House Christmas
display this past November and December.
"We Believe in Angels"
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NOTE: Be sure to check times & dates to verify event.
Contact for more information on any event at Olbrich Botanical
Gardens, 3330 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI; Aleeh Schwoerer, 608-
245-3648 [email protected] For events at Rotary
Botanical Gardens, 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville, WI 53545,
phone 608 752-3885 ext 17, rotarybotanicalgardens.org.
For events at West Madison Ag Research Station, 8502 Mineral
Point Rd., Verona, WI 53593-9689, phone 608 262-2257,
http://www.cals.wisc.edu/westmad/garden/Events.html
Dec 7-31 - 10am-4pm - OLBRICH'S HOLIDAY EXPRESS
& FLOWER AND MODEL TRAIN SHOW - Olbrich
Botanical Gardens - Madison - Note: Closes at 2pm Dec 24 all day Dec 25 - All aboard for Olbrich’s Holiday
Express! Large-scale model trains wind through a holiday
scene overflowing with hundreds of poinsettias and fresh
evergreens and twinkling lights! Cost: $6 for adults, $3 for
children ages 3 to 12, Children 2 and under are free, Free
member - includes the tropical Bolz Conservatory.
Jan 15-23, 2020 - Master Gardener Tour – Costa Rica -
Join newly retired WI MG Program Coordinator Susan Mahr
on a tour to Costa Rica. Opening still for these dates. Contact
Kari Harper of Hidden Treasures Tours at (573) 303-2872
or [email protected] Details at
https://hiddentreasurestours.com/upcoming-tours/master-
gardener-tour-costa-rica/
Jan 24-25, 2020 - Garden Visions- Wausau, WI - The
North Central WI Master Gardeners will be holding their
annual Garden Visions conference. Friday, Jan 24, enjoy the
inspirational documentary film “Five Seasons” featuring Piet
Oudolf and his beautiful garden designs. Saturday, Jan 25,
full day conference with break-out sessions. Featured
speaker is Wisconsin native Roy Diblik, owner of Northwind
Perennial Farm. He is best known as the plantsman behind
Piet Oudolf’s midwestern garden designs, including the Lurie
Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago. Roy is the author of
“The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden.” Cost: Friday
Night Dinner and a Movie: $25; Saturday Conference: $57
(non senior) all day, includes lunch; $37 (senior 62+) all day,
includes lunch; $25 half day, excludes lunch. Location is
Northcentral Technical College, 1000 W Campus Dr, Wausau. Find the full brochure here: https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/marathonmg/files/2019/11/Ga
rden-Visions-Brochure-2020.pdf To register, please visit our
website. Registration opens Monday, Dec 2. Contact: Carole
Machek at 715-301-5547 or [email protected]
Feb 3 thru May 4, 2020 - Juneau County Master
Gardener Volunteer Training - Mauston WI - See next
page for more information. Location: Mauston City Hall,
303 Mansion St., Mauston.
Feb 15, 2020 - Winnebago County Master Gardeners
Spring Garden Seminar - Oshkosh, WI - Keynote Speaker:
Ben Futa, Executive Director, Allen Centennial Gardens,
Madison, WI. Also presenting: Jim Nienhuis, Professor of
Horticulture, UW- Madison, and Anita Carpenter, Biologist,
Oshkosh. Registration information
at:www.winnebagomastergardeners.org Cost: $45-$50
includes Continental Breakfast and Lunch. Location: LaSure’s
Banquet Hall, Oshkosh, WI
Feb 29, 2020 - 9am-3pm - Spring Symposium 2020:
Inspired Gardening - Cedarburg, Wisconsin - Ozaukee
Master Gardeners will host its Spring Symposium “Inspired
Gardening”. Gardeners will get the inspiration and know-how
to apply to their own yards as soon as the snow melts.” The
day-long Symposium will feature three internationally known
speakers. Fergus Garrett, head gardener at England’s Great
Dexter, one of the most famous gardens in the world, will
provide the keynote presentation. Diane Ott Whealy, the co-
founder of Seed Savers Exchange, and award-winning
landscape designer Nick McCullough, who will take our
audience through the garden design process, from inception
to maintenance. Cost: $65 includes a box lunch. Location:
Cedarburg Performing Arts Center, W68 N611 Evergreen
Blvd, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Information at
https://www.ozaukeemastergardeners.org/omg-calendar.
Seating will be limited.
March 7, 2020 - 9am-noon - Spring Begins! - Menomonie,
WI - Diana Alfuth, UW-Extension Horticulture Outreach
Specialist will present “Using Native Plants in the Landscape”
and “Small Space Gardening” including Lasagna Gardening,
Straw Bale Gardens, Pallet Gardens and Container Gardens.
Refreshments, handouts, door prizes and vendors included.
Cost: $8 until Feb 22; $10 after and at the door. Location:
3001 U.S. Highway 12 East, Menomonie, WI Contact: Sally
Schendel at 715-556-5098 or [email protected]
March 21, 2020 - 7:30am–12:30pm - Ready, Set, Grow
Spring Conference- Lancaster, WI - 5th Annual Spring
Conference with speakers covering gardening topics for
beginners and beyond. Educational displays, door prizes, and
light refreshments. Cost: $20. Contact: Jenny Dixon at 608-
723-2125 or [email protected] More information:
https://www.vespermanfarms.com/ Location: VESPERMAN
FARMS, 8149 Stage Road, Lancaster, WI 53813
Calendar of Events
February 7-9, 2020, Madison. WI
“Garden Expo” continues to evolve as a major event for Wisconsin Master
Gardener Volunteers. Check it out at
https://www.wigardenexpo.com/
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Master Gardener Program in Juneau County 2019 Published on December 1, 2019 by Mike Maddox
At the end of 2019, 13 Master Gardener Volunteers reported 584 hours of volunteer service for an estimated value of $14,009 (Independent Sector). They also reported 280 hours of continuing education and reached an estimated 732 individuals with various outreach projects.
Communicating with the Community
Juneau County Master Gardeners produce a comprehensive newsletter that is mailed and emailed out to those that are interested in horticulture and the Juneau County Master Gardeners. They also utilize social media to reach out to those interested in the Juneau County Master Gardeners and horticulture topics through their Juneau County Master Gardener Facebook page. This allows them to continue a quick communication option and the ability to share upcoming events, informational articles, and photos of projects they have been working on in the county.
Working with the Necedah After
School Youth
Juneau County Master Gardeners worked with 60 youth on starting seeds in March of 2019. They utilized this time to help teach the youth about the process of growing plants from seeds to harvest. The youth enjoyed the time with the Master Gardeners as they have just received funding to create a school garden. The seeds they started will be used in the school garden and harvested in the fall by the youth
Educating and Reaching out to the Public
At the sharing supper held monthly in Mauston, Master Gardener Volunteers provide educational materials and hands on activities for over 150 contacts with youth and adults throughout the year. In addition, Master Gardener Volunteers manned a table at the Women’s Night Out in October providing material, promoting the organization and answering garden questions for over 160 women.
Support to the Community
Juneau County Master Gardener Volunteers bring support to the community through their various projects. They raise funds through plant sales to donate to local food pantries and animal shelter. Also, they sponsor a specialty ribbon or two for the Juneau County fair to help inspire youth to continue their interests in horticulture projects. Furthermore, they also help with beautification projects for the city planters, historical society, food pantry, animal shelter.
Check out the accomplishment report for 2019 for your group! A huge thank you goes out to Natty Kranz for helping me with the wordings!
Alana Voss
Editor Note: The following information has been taken from this website: https://wimastergardener.org/2019/12/01/master-gardener-program-in-juneau-county-2019/
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From Mike Maddox in the December Volunteer Vibe https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nek3ollLPbzJ0Nn-9YvYp3obulMrO-A6ui8sW5jKlp4/edit?usp=sharing
Your Action Required: Enrollment Now Open One of our biggest challenges is knowing who is volunteering on behalf of Extension at any given time. We need to know in order to best support volunteers as they represent the university in their communities all across the state. It has happened all too often that former MGVs go on an extended hiatus and fall out of the program and off our radar. And, when they are ready to return, they start volunteering where they left off (or somewhere new) and pop up on October 1 with hours to report. This is a concern as they were representing the program without our knowledge and may engage in projects and with people in ways that are not appropriate. Starting this year, volunteer and continuing education hours will only count for individuals enrolled in the MG program. Enrollment includes being in the Online Reporting System, having
completed the Criminal Background Check, having completed Mandated Reporter Training, and having agreed to the conditions for volunteer service (volunteer expectations form, assumption of risk form, photo release). Hours completed before enrollment will not count. Please keep this in mind and share with any former volunteer contemplating returning to the program. They can contact your local coordinator to get the ball rolling.
It sounds like yet another new thing to do, but...It is as simple as logging into the ORS and clicking “Yes”. Here are the
things you need to know.
WHO: ALL volunteers (current, transfers, new, etc.) will need to do this.
WHAT: The process: Log into the ORS; when prompted, respond to all conditions for volunteer service (this means
clicking Yes to things). When you’re done, you then enter the ORS like usual to report hours.
WHEN: Now! Because of the holidays, we are giving everyone until February 1, 2020 to complete this.
WHERE: It all takes place in the ORS.
Please note: We know the term “enrollment” implies that you are starting something new for the first time. This annual enrollment process is just the term used to describe the yearly process of having everyone agree to the volunteer mandates you’ve already been doing all along. We are borrowing the terminology from 4-H.
And, for clarity: Hours entered between October 1, 2019, to now will count for those of you continuing in the program. We
are in that awkward in between stage of moving into a new process. The statement of “not counting” is applicable to those stepping away and wanting to come back in the future.
https://wimastergardener.org/toolbox/
Then go to the bottom on the page and click on ORS
EXTRA EXTRA!
New Lisbon Memorial Library
Presents a Speaker on Tuesday
January 23, 2020 at 6:00.
She has an amazing story to tell and unique pictures to show. She is a very interesting person and house sat in the South of France. She had to work in their gardens for 20 hours per week.
I just thought the Master
Gardeners would like to see this
presentation. Keep It In Mind
Deanna Rosier
New Lisbon Memorial Library
In our newly renovated library
Key pointers on poinsettias
The poinsettia, a tropical shrub, grows natively in
Mexico and Central America. The Aztecs called it
cuetlaxochitl or “star flower.” The red petals —
actually bracts or modified leaves — were used for dye.
The red or otherwise colored bracts frame the plant’s actual flowers,
which appear as yellow clusters at the center of the bracts. For the
longest-lasting poinsettias, choose plants with little or no yellow pollen
showing.
Contrary to popular belief, poinsettias are not poisonous to humans or pets.
Poinsettias are not frost-tolerant. They will grow outdoors in temperate
coastal climates, such as Southern California beach communities even 10
feet tall.
Care for poinsettias
Place your poinsettia in indirect light after bringing it home. Poinsettias
need six hours of light daily (fluorescent light will work).
Keep your plant away from cold windows, warm or cold drafts from
furnaces or air conditioners, and open doors and windows.
Poinsettias do best at daytime temperatures of 65 to 70 degree.
Check the soil daily. Punch holes in the pot’s foil cover so water can drain
into a saucer then discard. Water the plant when the soil is dry.
Don’t fertilize poinsettias while in bloom. If kept past the holiday season,
apply a houseplant fertilizer once a month.
Want to rebloom next year?
Poinsettias need at least 14 hours of complete darkness each night for six to 10
weeks to trigger bloom. If you manage to keep your potted poinsettia alive until
next fall, you can trick it into bloom. Every night, place a lightproof bag over the
plant or put it in a closet to force the bloom in time for Christmas.
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UW-Madison | Division of Extension
Juneau County Courthouse
220 E. State Street, Rm 104
Mauston WI 53948
If you would like to host a garden meeting, list two months of your choice:
1st choice___________ 2
nd choice ____________
If you are a current Master Gardener, list the year you took your training:
______________________
If not, would you like information on becoming a Master Gardener?
__________________________
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY
STATE ZIP
PHONE ( )
ANNUAL DUES: $12.00 from January thru December 2020
FILL IN THIS FORM AND MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: Juneau County Master Gardeners AND MAIL TO:
Irene Klingemann, W5805 Brown Rd, Mauston WI 53948
2020 JUNEAU COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS MEMBERSHIP FORM
An EEO/Affirmative Action employer, University of Wisconsin-Extension provides equal
Opportunities in employment and programming, including Title VI, Title IX and ADA requirements.
Send articles or other ideas for the Master Gardener Newsletter to:
Irene Klingemann, W5805 Brown Rd, Mauston WI 53948 or email
If you have not done so yet it's time to fill-out your JCMG membership form for 2020 (see below) and mail it
along with $12.00 to the address shown on the form.
For those who can't make our meetings for one reason or another, please still consider being a JCMG member to be
part of our group in spirit if nothing else.
Note that for JCMG members, $5.00 of this goes towards membership in WIMGA and to receive the WIMGA
newsletter.
For those interested in Master Gardener Training, classes will begin in Juneau County February 4, 2020.
Please contact Extension Juneau County, 608-847-9329 for more information and to register.
The schedule for 2020 meetings of the Juneau County Master Gardeners.
April 27 New Lisbon Library
May 18 Open
June 22 Necedah Nat'l Wildlife Refuge
July 27 Open
August 24 Open
September 28 Open
October 26 Open
Again Season’s Greetings to all