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Hellebores
So, since last week we've had beautiful days and mornings with a dusting of snow on the ground. It's typical for this time of year, we get just enough nice days to get you all excited to get outside … more
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Is spring here?
I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the beautiful weather last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. My snow melted and I was able to get out in my yard to start my spring cleanup projects. After working in … more
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Symbols of Spring
Well, has your spring fever broken yet? We have endured the cold and the long nights, but now the daylight is getting longer and we have the time change Sunday morning. Symbols of spring are all … more
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Exploding Trees?
While at a party this past weekend, I was asked if I had heard about the exploding trees recently in the upper mid-west. I had to admit that I had not, but I was interested in finding out.   … more
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Spring is coming
Last week I mentioned I had been away and talked about the Melipona bees in Mexico. While I was away my son, Ryan, was checking our house one day when he noticed some tracks around the house that … more
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Brrrrrr......
We don't need a woodchuck in Pennsylvania to tell us that there will be six more weeks of winter. Just go outside for more than a few minutes and you'll know, It's cold out there. The leaves on my … more
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Unbearable Weather
Last week I mentioned I had been away and talked about the Melipona bees in Mexico. While I was away, my son, Ryan, was checking our house one day when he noticed some tracks around the house that … more
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Mighty little bee
In case you missed me last week, I was away and forgot to do my homework before I went away. During that time away, my wife, Vicki and I went to Cozumel, Mexico to visit a bee sanctuary that I had … more
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Seed & Plant Catalogues
Hope springs Eternal. I'm not sure where that saying came from and looking outside, spring looks pretty far away. But the holidays are over, 2026 has begun and spring is less than three months away. … more
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Reduce cold and flu risk
As usual, just when you think you know what the weather will do, it does something else. So, everything I wrote about last week hasn't come to fruition as all the snow melted off and didn't refreeze … more
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Deer and Crusty Snow
The early season snow has put a beautiful blanket on the ground that should last us all the way till spring. The light snow was easy to move until many areas picked up some rain. Not enough rain to … more
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Gardening All Year 
The constant cold weather we have right now came in so fast that even I didn't get all my fall projects done. A few weeks back I purchased some fall bulbs to plant for spring and they are still … more
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Christmas Tree Carbon
I wrote about live Christmas trees a couple weeks back and how to best care for them, but a conversation came up over Thanksgiving dinner that required me to do a little digging. It all had to do … more
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Let the Hunt Begin.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner now and then we are on to Christmas. I've seen some houses with Christmas lights on ever since the day after Halloween and to be fair, we have been putting our … more
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The picture is my mower after 35 minutes in the snow Tuesday.
Critters in the Garage
Well nothing says the gardening season is over than snow on the ground and on my mower. I had just purchased a new mower and brought it home Tuesday during our little snow squall and this is what it … more
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Fall Ticks
  Going out for dinner last Saturday at our local haunt, Baker’s, we met up with some friends we haven’t seen in awhile, Carol and Roger from Fosterdale Equipment. As Carol and I … more
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The Woolly Adelgid
  Invasive insects have greatly changed the forest makeup in Sullivan County over the past forty years. Emerald Ash Borer are responsible for the loss of thirty-two ash trees on my property … more
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The Many Benefits of Kernza
I don’t eat cereal a lot, but we do keep a box or two in the house for those times when you just don’t want to cook. I’m more likely to eat cereal for lunch or dinner, than I am for … more
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Christmas Already???
So we have now had a hard frost and the outdoor gardening season is officially over, but do we have to start with all the Christmas decorations already? While shopping this past weekend, I noticed … more
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Houseplants
Despite the beautiful weather we have been having lately, gardening outside will be rapidly coming to an end for this season, but there is always inside. Houseplants can be a big stress reliever … more
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My hawthorn in my front yard.
The Benefits of Hawthorn
From time to time I read articles in magazines or online that require that I do a little research into the medicinal claims for certain plants. Recently I read about the health benefits of Hawthorn. … more
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Fall Deals
  The landscaping season may quickly be coming to an end, but it ain’t over yet. Late September and October are great times to plant as whatever you are planting will not go into … more
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Fall Bulbs - Spring Flowers
  So every spring we have customers come in looking for tulips and daffodils because they see them blooming outside in peoples yards. Well now is the time to plant them not in the spring. Bulbs … more
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Mums and Fall Plantings
With the colder nights and scattered frost about, many of the summer annuals and vegetables in the garden have gone to mush, but that doesn’t mean the planting season is over. Fall mums, … more
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Dry Weather
  It may not be hot anymore, as I have had a couple mornings already that my pellet stove came on, but boy is it dry outside. Even the occasional afternoon shower seems to evaporate before it … more
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