Daily Archives: April 21, 2015

2015
04/21

Category:
farming
food
Garden

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Bee boxes and gardening

 

IMG_2084All 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.