All 4 of these bee boxes are now painted. Tomorrow, I will check and see if we need to add another to either or both of the hives.

As I was weeding in preparation for planting, I found a few potatoes. I’m not sure if we missed them or if they were tiny last fall when we harvested and were left behind and have now grown.

OH, yes, and I found this little fellow, who I promptly put in a safer place. Our place is full of toads, which eat bugs. We also have the chickens, so with all these bug predators, what’s with all the bugs.

Do you know what kind of bug this is. We have a number of them both out here in the garden and in the hoop house.

By the time, I finished weeding that 20′ row, I had a large kettle of potatoes.

For lunch, we had one of our favorite dishes – scalloped potatoes, to which we added a salad with artichoke hearts, celery, carrots, capers, lettuce, and cauliflower.