Spring Planting Moon Yes! Planted under the planting moon even if I couldn’t get the bloodroot up for the bloodroot […]
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Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Working in the late summer garden. Those creepy pre-beetle organisms continue to gnaw on my potato plants and I gnaw right back. So far the invasion has not gained a significant beach head thanks to soapy water and the occasional visit to prune out bugs. Parts of the garden where […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today I performed partial hive box reversals in all three colonies. The second hive box of three gets rotated to the bottom and the first or bottom box rotates up to take its place. This means that all the hive boxes have to be moved, so it is a labor intensive […]
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Imbolc Waning Bridgit Moon This has been a nix two-day event. The Woolly’s, for the first time I recall, canceled. Too little parking around Charlie Haislet’s condo. The days events scattered around me, I never quite got traction, feel a little down. Nothing bad, just wheels spinning. Don’t like it. The snow-blower, which needs a […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Winter Solstice A long time ago I got a clay pot for cooking, a romertopf. Over many years I used it at least every several weeks, then it went in the cupboard, not to come back into the kitchen. Until today. A free-range chicken, 40 of our garlic cloves, two […]
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Fall Waning Harvest Moon The last forty bulbs, a monet tulip collection, have gone in the ground. I planted a couple of hundred daffodil and tulips at various spots in the orchard, which we see from the table while eating breakfast. The others, more daffodils and tulips along with a bunch of new lilies, went […]
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Fall New (Harvest) Moon Second round of apiguard in the parent and the divide. The top box on the package colony has gotten heavier, but I plan to feed them some more as I will do to the parent once the apiguard comes off in two weeks. Sometime in early November I’ll get out the […]
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Beltane Waning Planting Moon Plants up, time for photos:
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Beltane Full Planting Moon Ah, the sweet feel of being in synch with the moon. I planted Scarlet Nantes carrots and golden beets amongst the green onions and the radicchio. Threw in a few zinnias for good measure. Next in the onion bed with storage onions, dill, marigolds and some other flower I can’t recall, […]
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Spring Awakening Moon Rain last night. Thanks to all you who offered a faith tradition appropriate rain whatever. It worked! That means the onion sets I planted have a nice present in their new home and the garlic and parsnip received encouragement. Since it was a wet, cool morning, I did just what I said […]
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