Beltane Early Growth Moon
The bees. This queen has gone to work, pushing out eggs, which develop into instars, then 
larvae. I watched several brand new baby bees chew their way out of their brood chambers today. One that I watched I followed around the frame, wondering what she would do. She walked a bit like drunken sailor, connecting antennae to antennae to her older sisters, poking her head into an empty brood chamber, then backing away.
Seeing her alerted me to the pallid, hey I’ve just been born, look of the newbees and I found several after seeing her. This seems to be a very healthy and friendly colony. No excitement, buzzing the head. Just working away, some air conditioning, some nursing, some flying in with pollen laden legs, some flying out. The queen in there somewhere dabbing eggs into brood chambers, then moving on.
Also got the second round of beets in the ground, double planting some with the kale and chard, imagining I can get in one turn over of the beet crop before the greens mature. We’ll see about that. The leeks look great, the onions not as good but not bad. Kate’s sugar snap peas are two inches high or more, a few of her cucumbers have broken the surface. We’ll not see carrots for some time and their germination is not so hot anyhow.
After watering everything in, I came back inside. Tomorrow I’m going to gather a soil test for International Ag labs and finish cleaning up the patio. Then it’ll be off to see the people of the reindeer.
