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The netaphim ruined last year by dogs Rigel and Vega has repairs.\u00a0 The repairs sit safely inside fences that Rigel has shown either no interest or no capability to penetrate.\u00a0 They should last.<\/p>\n
The bees will wait until a less breezy tomorrow.\u00a0 Wind blows the smoke around and I have to perform a reversal, hive check and clean off the bottom board.\u00a0 The reversal of the top 2 hive boxes encourages the queen to move into the top box and lay eggs there to create an ovoid shape of larva outside of which the nursery bees will complete a ring of pollen and a ring of honey.\u00a0 This makes the planned colony split on May 15th assured of one hive box full of larva, hopefully the top one with new larvae and therefore newly born nursery bees.\u00a0 Nursery bees take more kindly to moving around than the older worker bees.<\/p>\n
Irrigation folks have scheduled Tuesday to come out and turn on the irrigation system.\u00a0 A good thing.\u00a0 They usually wait until the second week of May since our average last frost date is around May 15th.\u00a0 I imagine that’s moved up closer to the first week of May on average, but a frost outside the average is still a frost so most planning still accommodates the old date.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow the bees and soil amending, that is, putting in composted manure and humus on the raised beds and adding some sphagnum moss (some more) to the blueberry beds.\u00a0 The outdoor season with sun.\u00a0 The great wheel turns.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Flowering Moon The netaphim ruined last year by dogs Rigel and Vega has repairs.\u00a0 The repairs sit safely inside fences that Rigel has shown either no interest or no capability to penetrate.\u00a0 They should last. The bees will wait until a less breezy tomorrow.\u00a0 Wind blows the smoke around and I have to perform … Continue reading Doing Stuff<\/span>