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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.
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Jim Boxberger
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10/18/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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10/4/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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9/27/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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9/20/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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9/6/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/30/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/23/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/9/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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7/19/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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7/19/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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7/12/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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7/5/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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6/28/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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6/21/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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6/14/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/31/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/24/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/17/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/3/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/26/24
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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, …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/12/24
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Back in the beginning of March, I wrote about seed starting with your kids or grandkids, and I just wanted to show off two of my grandchildren as we planted marigold seeds last Sunday. I went with …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/29/24
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This is a follow-up to a column I wrote last month referring to Poppi Soda not containing corn syrup. Well I have had the chance to get some Poppi at Shoprite in Monticello. It wasn’t …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/22/24
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Well, it has been quite the week since my last column. Over three inches of rain last Saturday night, snow Sunday night and then tropical storm force winds on Monday. Well, it was the wind that did …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/15/24
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