Spring is here, although with the winter we had, it felt like it always was here except that the trees are now full of leaves; the comfrey returned; and we planted our vegetable garden.
I didn't think we were going to get to it for a while but sometimes you just have to go get the starts and put them in the bed. We have tomatoes, lettuce, lemon cucumber, slicing cucumber, kale, Swiss chard, beets, squash, and tomatillo. I also have the second bed ready to go; I just need to fill it with the soil mix.
We helped our friends James and Sarah move a couple weekends ago and they gave us this green pot, which had a dead Japanese maple in it. I bought a new one and potted it. I'll plan to give it back as a housewarming gift when they find a permanent place. I also planted our Lisbon Lemon that we got from a couple friends when we first moved in to our house.
After losing my colony, I was exploring options to repopulate my hive. I was hoping a swarm would move in or that I'd catch one but instead the brother of our friend, Brooke, is starting a mead business: Magic Bag Meadery. He's partnering with a commercial apiarist who wanted me to host a couple hives. I was also able to buy a colony from him. His are the fully silver hives and mine has the silver super on top of two blues. I also planted that Japanese maple in the chicken area hoping that something will thrive in there.
The hives. The third one is from my friends Rachel and Sophie and is still empty. Thomas, the apiarist, said he'd bring another colony out next time he comes, which would put four active hives in my yard.
