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Da Birds....
Baby it’s cold outside and many of you have told me it seems colder this year. Well not really, we haven’t seen any record lows even though it has been colder than many recent past years. … more
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Tulips
Can You Dig It?
You might have seen some flurries this week, but there is still time for a couple projects before the snow flies and the ground freezes. If you have been growing tender semi-perennial bulbs or tubers … more
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Mycelium in the mulch pile.
What Lies Beneath
Well I was going to talk about houseplants this week, but with the warm mid-week weather I ended up outside again doing some landscaping when a new subject uncovered itself. I had a fungus amoungus. … more
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Fall Pruning
What a week of beautiful weather. It is a little cooler and more seasonable now but the 70’s that we saw from last Saturday through Wednesday were a great example of a weather phenomenon called … more
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101 Pumpkin Uses
Last Sunday we had three of our granddaughters over to pick their Halloween pumpkins from our pumpkin patch. It was a good year this year, and we got fourteen pumpkins off of four vines.   … more
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Perennial Gardens
October already and still no frost but now that we are getting near the end of the gardening season, it is worth a look at some garden plants that are perennial and don’t need to be planted … more
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Me picking apples.
Apples to apples (to cider)
So last Friday morning Vicki and I loaded up my Suburban and we went on a quest for roadside apples. In years gone by every farm in Sullivan county had apple trees and many can still be found along … more
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Fall Fertilizing
The nice weather we have been having is helping me to get my fall projects done. One of those projects is getting things fertilized for winter. Mid-September through late November is the right time … more
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Cats and Bees
Things have been hectic this week so this column may be a little shorter than normal and completely scattered.   Two weeks ago my daughter and granddaughter moved to Italy leaving their … more
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Dropping Needles
It is usually this time of year that people start coming in the store to buy some sort of fungicide because they think there is something wrong with their pine trees. The conversation always starts … more
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Closely planted row of dwarf apple trees.
Orchards
The cool weather this week was just a taste of things to come. As we head into fall it is beginning to become apple picking season. If you don’t have your own trees, there are plenty of you … more
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Fuschia shrub growing along a Scottish road.
Summer Vacation
Now well into August and my garden has gone crazy with the heat and humidity. Vicki and I were away for a couple of weeks and our house-sitter, my daughter, didn’t pick the garden like she was … more
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Blueberries
  Last Sunday I went blueberry picking first thing in the morning before the heat of the day set in. I have a row of blueberry bushes that my grandfather planted back in the nineteen seventies … more
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The importance of apples
My wife and I took a drive on Sunday around the county so that I could check out to see how the area apple trees looked. I have a few roadside trees that provide me with a bounty of fruit in the … more
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Projects
Last week I mentioned cleaning up all the leaf litter left behind from the gypsy moth caterpillars. My woods was not only filled with this leaf litter, but also the leaves from years gone by. Whoever … more
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Secret Weapon
Yard work, some people hate it, while others love it. I tend to be in the later camp, loving to putter around in my backyard when the weather will allow it. Now that the gypsy moth caterpillars have … more
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Beetles
Here come the Beatles, not those Beatles, Japanese Beetles, and they want to eat your roses, trees and perennials. Coming up to the Fourth of July weekend like clockwork the brown shiny shelled … more
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Second Season
Over the last few weekends, I have gone to quite a few farmer’s markets around Sullivan County, something that I can do now that I am retired. We have a good array of markets around the county … more
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Jewelweeds.
Backyard remedies
If you suffer from seasonal allergies like my wife, Vicki, does, then this year has been a doozie so far. To try to provide some natural relief, we went looking for some bee pollen this past weekend … more
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A baby deer stuck in a storm drain.
Bee Successful
Well, No Mow May paid dividends this year. Last week I caught a swarm of bees in the bee trap I had set up at the store. I’ve now moved them to my bee yard in my garden at home and hopefully … more
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Two fawn sitting next to each other.
If you care, leave it there
It’s time of year in nature when babies are born and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wants you to learn, “If You Care, Leave It There”. The DEC … more
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Spring in full Swing
The burn ban is finally over and now I can start cleaning my yard so that I will be able to mow as we get toward the end of May. My lawn is about eight to ten inches high right now and of course I … more
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Be prepared for bugs and frost
What a difference a week makes, from cold wet weather a week and a half ago to the beautiful tropical conditions we had this week. Looking at the forecast through mid-May, the nighttime temperatures … more
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Garden Hacks
With the nice weather this week, I heard and saw a lot of lawn mowers going. I cannot stress too much the importance of No Mow May to help pollinator populations. Even this week with the nice weather … more
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Old photos of Jim Boxberger with family members.
Roots run deep
So I got a call on Tuesday from one of my father’s past employees from way back in the 70’s, Chris (Crista) Ward. Back then the Liberty Agway store was more into selling power equipment, … more
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