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Many people are under the assumption that hybrid vegetables are also GMO, genetically modified organisms, but that is not the case.
Hybridization in plants refers to the process of …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/18/25
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Back in February I wrote about impending tariffs and now they are here. This could mean higher prices for everything from pens to automobiles. Avocados from Mexico, pineapples from Costa Rica and …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/11/25
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I have written before about some very invasive insects, but a two need mentioning again so that everyone is aware now that spring is upon us. The spotted lanternfly, which actually looks pretty, is …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/4/25
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So now we are into late March, it’s officially spring, so what. Well not much yet, you can’t do much outside even though the snow and ice is gone. The frost is already out of the ground, …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/28/25
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So it begins, a new season in many ways. First and foremost, my perennials are starting to emerge from their slumber under a pile of leaves from last fall. I was out raking and blowing leaves off my …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/21/25
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So last week I was in Middletown getting a part for my ratchet impact drill at one of the box stores when I saw something quite distressing. They were selling four tiny seed potatoes in a beautifully …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/14/25
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Egg prices have been driving people crazy for almost six months now. It has gotten to the point that many people are contemplating buying chickens this spring so that they have a ready source of eggs …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/7/25
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With the cold, dry weather that we have seen recently many people have been stricken with a nagging cough. Of course you can get many different cough medicines at the pharmacy, but what about some …
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Jim Boxberger
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2/28/25
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The extremely cold weather lately has caused more of everything. More wood for the wood stove. More oil for the oil burner. More electric for everything. More lotion for how dry my skin has gotten. …
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Jim Boxberger
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2/21/25
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In gardening you can learn something new everyday and still not know it all. Last year my wife and I took a trip to Scotland and on that trip found out some interesting knowledge about Vicki’s …
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Jim Boxberger
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2/14/25
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The talk in the news this week was the possibility of new tariffs on Canada and Mexico over immigration issues. Luckily, things got worked out at least for the next 30 days.
But if things …
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Jim Boxberger
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2/7/25
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You might have heard someone say something was as slow as molasses before, but you probably have never heard someone say something is as healthy as molasses. Now, not all molasses is healthy, but all …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/31/25
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Feeling blah, got those winter blues, scratchy throat or maybe starting a cold, take some apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar has long been louted for warding off colds but it actually has many …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/24/25
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I have a sweet topic this week and Winnie the Poohs favorite, honey. I’ve talked many times before about beekeeping, but honey is the reason we do it. We all know about using honey for cooking …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/17/25
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Last week I talked about selecting and getting your seeds that you will want to start this spring and this week will be getting all your seed starting supplies in order. Make your seed starting …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/10/25
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The holidays are over, 2025 has begun and spring is less than three months away. You have probably already received seed catalogs in the mail as the 2025 seeds are out. These days you’ll …
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Jim Boxberger
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1/3/25
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Some weeks I struggle to come up with topics that I haven’t covered before or at least not recently. It’s hard to imagine that I have been doing this since 2013, especially since …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/13/24
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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. …
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Jim Boxberger
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12/6/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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11/22/24
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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. …
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Jim Boxberger
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11/8/24
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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 …
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Jim Boxberger
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10/24/24
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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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