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Cistus 'Grayswood Pink' (rockrose)
This week's walkthrough is a mish-mash of many different topics; please enjoy.
There's a lot of stuff blooming in the garden right now - would love to hear what's happening in your gardens, too!
Scarlet Flax, Linum grandiflorum rubrum
What a week this has been, as it pertains to beekeeping. The video below jumps around in time, so make sure to note the days and times. It's a bit longer than normal, because I included the entire seven minutes it took the bees to swarm from my hive to my pepper tree. Fast forward a little if you're getting bored with that. Also, I recommend you watch it on your desktop computer, at full screen, to get the full effect. Here's to a calmer week ahead!
Standing inside a Japanese Flowering Cherry at my school
This week's walkthrough is up. Tom makes me a compost sifter, I deal with the clover cover crop, and we take a peek at the tomatoes and at the bees, along with various other things.
Hope you're all having a terrific weekend!
Sidalcea malvaeflora or Checkerbloom
This week, Tom takes over the video walkthrough, to show you how he converted our sprinkler system (meant for a lawn) to a drip system (better for our current plantings, plus better for the drought situation). We've had this drip system in place for several years now, and we're very happy with it. As temperatures in CA warm up, and the rainy season fades, it's good to have a way to sustainably (and frugally) water your plantings without the time and labor that hand-watering requires. Enjoy!
February 2017 honey on the left. February 2016 honey on the right - our last jar - with crystallized honey on the bottom.
This week's walkthrough is up; we decided to take advantage of a dry, sunny day and open the hive for the first time this year. We're always anxious to see how the bees fared over the previous winter.