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Ragged.\u00a0 Bug-ridden.\u00a0 Tired out.\u00a0 The garden needs attention, too.\u00a0 Stole this one from a Star-Trib column this morning.\u00a0 It’s true, though, that the garden has begun to head toward the compost pile.\u00a0 That’s what harvest means, the plants die or die back and we take the seed pods or roots or stalks and leaves.\u00a0 This year the harvest will include honey.<\/p>\n
The shiny stainless steel extractor, sans motor which is still on its way, now sits outside on our deck along with the plastic pail with its 200 micron filter and its 600 micron filter.\u00a0 There is, too, a Rubbermaid commercial product which is an uncapping container over which we remove the covers on the honeycomb.\u00a0 After uncapping, they go in the extractor.\u00a0 After the extractor the honey gets filtered twice and then stored in a plastic pail while awaiting bottling.<\/p>\n
Also getting a big load of mulch today, more for the orchard and the vegetable garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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