[cross-posted on Front Step Design]
I bought these bee boxes the other day.
I only meant to buy two, because theoretically I believe in baby steps. However, the universe frequently has other plans. (See spinning, and weaving.) They were at a junktique store, and the owner wanted them All Gone. So I got ten bee boxes for $50. (I would be happy to share.) Obviously they need some work - I hope the frames are still acceptable to the bees.
So, in the manner of things, information is starting to trickle in about beekeeping. The blogosphere provided geek.farm.life's podcasts about beekeeping. Neil Gaiman has a couple of boxes. Sheila, who I met via spinning at the Saturday in the Park, told me about the local beekeeping society. Googling that, I found an online magazine. I'll keep you posted.
In other food news, the solar oven from Path to Freedom's Peddler's Wagon offshoot came in. I've made two peach cakes (the dump one, and a more conventional, frostable, 9x13) and zucchini chocolate chip cookies from Barbara Kingsolver's new book in the oven so far. I like it.
Here's how the lemon tree is doing.
I am trying very hard not to count them, nor to research how to preserve lemons, because that will hex the tree. Someone has already hexed the tree, anyway - it's infested with a white fuzzy insect that is doing strange mutilations to some of the leaves. Yet, it blooms again, fulfilling the promise of year-round lemons that is the Meyer repulation. I am terribly grateful.
And I planted 83 (still haven't counted, but something slightly less than 96) tomato plants on Saturday, and some eggplant, cucumber, and watermelon. No zucchini - I like it fine, but my husband doesn't, and they're cheap enough from the farmer's market. Besides, I'd like to do my neighbors the service of being able to happily accept extra zucchini in August.
That triangle structure is for the melons and squash. Behind the dune daisies (dunno sci name) are two rows of EIGHT varieties of tomatoes, started from seed.
I put one each of the tomato varieties in a container, also, for scientific purposes. (Must make more Virginia Creeper cages.)
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