Spring Bee Hiving Moon Put in my seed order to seed savers yesterday. This is the first year in a few that I’ve not started […]
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Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon We continue sliding toward summer, a cool, moist descent, not at all like the sudden, blazing ascension we often see, usually full on in place by now, with sun screen and hats and pitchers of lemonade set out on patios. At some point it will warm up, at least I […]
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Beltane Waning Last Frost Moon Weeding, thinning in the vegetable beds. A soothing practice, sprucing up the rows of beets, carrots, spinach and taking young weeds out now, before they get big. When I first went outside this morning, in a sweatshirt, I had to go back inside and put on a light jacket. A […]
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Spring ( it even looks like spring today!) Waning Bee Hiving Moon This morning or early this afternoon I pull the grass out of the entrance reducers and the bees will be free to navigate from their new home. Tomorrow I’ll check on the hive to see if the bees have remained focused in the […]
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Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon Tomorrow afternoon is the day the bee’s come to their new home. They will have traveled by truck from Chico, California, spent a night at Jim’s Nature’s Nectar and will leave Stillwater for Andover around 2:00 pm. Back home here at Artemis Honey they will go into their colonies, one […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Back to School Moon Kate has had a nasty cold since Monday and I can feel it trying to claw its way up my esophagus, making my throat scratchy. My hope is that the recent two time bout I had with some bug in July, then August has revved up my immune system. […]
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Lughnasa Waning Grandchildren Moon Kate and I have shifted our bedtimes and risings to 6:30. This allows us to get out to work in the garden when it’s still the cool of the day. This morning Kate continued to restore the original look and feel to the orchard while I finished up the mulch in […]
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Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon We are well past midsummer here in the northern latitudes. The garden’s peak bearing season will commence although we have already had blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, currants, garlic, lettuce, greens, onions, parsnips, beets and sugar snap peas. Ahead of us are tomatoes, green peppers, potatoes, more greens, onions, beets, lettuce, butternut squash, […]
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Beltane New Moon (Hungry Ghost) The potatoes have mounds around the growing plants and the hilled up earth from their trenches has leveled out. The bush beans I planted there last week have begun to germinate and I plan to plant more bush beans tomorrow if the weather is ok. While checking fruit on our […]
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A Garden, Some Latin, Ai Weiwei
Beltane New Last Frost Moon The potatoes are in the ground. The lettuce has two leaves, as does the spinach, a few beets have emerged. The leeks look a bit droopy, but they’ll pick up. The garlic is well over 6 inches now as it makes the final push for harvest in late June, early […]
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