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Well, we are getting towards the end of May and the Memorial Day Weekend is upon us.
Like many of you, I plan on having friends over for the holiday weekend so my lawn had to be mowed. With the …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/27/22
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Welcome to summer, or so it feels. Once again we are on a roller coaster of spring weather. We had spring weather this week, mid-summer weather this weekend and back to spring weather next week. At …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/20/22
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After the frosty start we had to the week, it is nice to see that the weather is improving and warmer days are in the forecast for the next week or so.
That doesn’t mean that you …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/13/22
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Since we are endorsing the “No Mow May” movement and everyone is going to have dandelions blooming this week, I thought I would let you know of a few uses for dandelions.
I got a …
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Jim Boxberger
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5/6/22
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The days are getting warmer, the grass is turning greener and in some cases taller, too. We all strive to have a green well manicured lawn puting down lime, fertilizer and weed killers.
I …
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Jim Boxberger Jr. • Monticello Farm Home & Garden
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4/29/22
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Happy Earth Day to all and Happy Birthday to my Aunt Judy too. But I am not going to talk about Earth Day this week, instead I will tell you a little bit about seed starting.
I was suppose to be …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/22/22
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With the nice weather this week, we have totally transformed our garden center from winter storage mode to spring sales mode. I even had a chance to finally get our straw bale garden together.
I …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/15/22
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Before coming up with the Siberian Centipede idea last week, I was going to be writing about a real predator that is already out this year, Ticks. With the change in season, ticks are on the hunt for …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/8/22
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I have fond memories from back in the 1980’s playing an arcade game named centipede, where you had to try and shoot to destroy the centipede before he could get to the bottom of the screen and …
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Jim Boxberger
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4/1/22
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I have to share a couple of cute stories from the past few days before I get into plants this week. The first one has to do with the last snowstorm we had two weeks ago.
I just happened to be at …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/25/22
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So we have busy planting in our greenhouse since last week. We have now planted all the berry bushes and although most people are familiar with blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, gooseberries …
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Jim Boxberger
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3/18/22
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So we received our first delivery of plants for the year on Tuesday. Now don’t rush in to buy any yet as these are bare root berry bushes that we pot up ourselves. This way we are not paying …
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3/11/22
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