Beltane Waning Planting Moon
Life seems lighter now with Kate at home. Shared life is so much easier than solo, at least I find it so.
Kate made oatmeal this morning and I went out to the garden and picked fresh strawberries. A delight to have with our cereal. Also a delight to have a partner at the table, a fellow reader of the paper. Good.
Spent some time weeding this morning. The whole package of the vegetable garden, the bees and our large perennial beds has gotten ahead of me, especially the perennial beds. I had to repair all the damage Rigel and Vega did to the vegetable garden last fall, then plant the garden, then plant much of it again after the frost. There was also some residual damage to the netaphim in the orchard and the vegetable garden that had to get fixed.
(on the other hand, it could be worse. we could have kudzu.)
The warm spring has put the bees and many of the plants 2 to 3 weeks ahead of time which has meant extra work with the bees (with potentially productive long term results) and good weed growing weather for the perennial beds.
In many ways it’s all good news except the aesthetic side of our property has definitely suffered. Still, I’ll get ahead of it sometime in the next couple of weeks. Then, I have to prune those shrubs that have reduced our front sidewalk to half its normal size.
