"It's spring fever.
That is what the name of it is.
And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
-Mark Twain
We've got some little sprouts shivering under the low tunnel on the raised bed, we're hoping they'll make it through. There are lots of bright, healthy delicious looking greens standing tall in our cold frames. With the recent rain it is a perfect place for slugs to feast and last night we pulled several big plump ones from our lettuce leaves.
Our field has been tilled and the construction of our many raised beds is underway. My shoulder is aching from all the shoveling and shifting of soil but the work is rewarding. The salvaged wood that we got for free from the lumber yard is all cut for the beehive. I'll finish sanding it today before adding a coat of boiled linseed oil to act as a natural weather protection. We've got to get the hive built and baited with lemongrass oil to attract a swarm. I'm not sure when the best time of year to do that is but I think with all the new flowers and budding trees it wouldn't hurt to get it out sooner, rather than later.
We bought a few 10' lengths of piping to construct another more stable tunnel for one of the other raised beds we'll be working. We'll use this second tunnel to start seedlings in flat in preparation for some warmer weather. I'm sure the warm weather is just around the corner...right behind the snow.
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