Bee and Garden Update

Last week, Josh opened up both hives to check on their progress and was glad to see that both are coming along nicely. Each hive has released their queen from her cage independently and both have sucked down the 5lbs of 1:1 sugar water solution. Keep in mind it takes 10lbs of nectar to create 1lb of beeswax! This sugar water will help give them a head start on all the work they need to do.

Smoking the hives

Checking the sugar water solution

He actually pulled out a few frames to get an even closer look.  Each hive is already drawing out comb on the inner most of the 10 frames.

As far as the garden goes, the peas have been slow to come up so far and we're beginning to wonder if the seeds were bad. The weather has been perfect for them to germinate but there hasn't been any sign yet. Only time will tell but we may have to wipe peas off the menu from the garden this year.

On the other hand, the tomato plants are growing fast and furious. Josh suspects that they will even need to be repotted once more before they are planted outside. The leeks look like they are going to be a success as well.  We're already thinking about planting a tray of 24 next year instead of just the 6 we planted this season.