Sunday, March 27, 2022

Plums and Collards Oh My!

 One of the Collard plants appeared to have developed a disease/pest issue, so I chose to take it down. Don't worry though, as long as it was a healthy plant I'll get 3 to 4 branches that will sprout off it and start producing leaves for me again.




Here I go putting cart before horse, maybe. 

Couple that with receiving a gift card from the reward points on my credit card and I end up bringing home a plum tree from the store. The smallest and ironically the plumcot I have had the longest died over the winter, so I replaced it with the plum. I needed another variety of plumcot to fertilize the them and thus produce fruit, so rather than buying another plumcot, a species  I have not had much luck with, or a new species. . . well you can see what won.



Once I started digging I wanted to keep going, so next thing you know I have cleared out all the grass from between the new plum and the plumcot. My volunteer rose and the sweet mint got put in that space for now.




Saturday, March 19, 2022

Buzz Buzz Bees and Wetness

 Thursday this last week I got in 2 more packages of bees. They are installed in their hives with the hard bottoms I created and only about a 3/4 inch opening. So Far it seems to be working very well.



I also got some experience in wood working by helping build a potting table for a friend's birthday.


Ran some water down to the new garden.





Got the Tomato Starts in the original garden area ... I have no hope for them they are very delicate. While I was doing this the 1 Cabbage head that I harvested the week before had its stem trying to regrow.
And last but not least the Pepper Plant Starts got put in the new garden and the water system tested.


I now have all the supplies I need to also run water to the Plumcot trees and re-do the watering system to the original garden so that I can weed and mow up there much easier.




Sunday, March 6, 2022

New Bee Box Bottoms

Since the bees almost made it though the winter and had suffered through quite a few pests last year that could get through the screen bottoms I decided to make solid bottoms for the boxes.

I had to connivence the queen to give up her throne so that I could make my new bee box bottom.


She allowed me her space to start working on the bee box bottom.












They aren't the prettiest, but after some wax to close up the cracks they are ready to go.