It's been a busy spring. We have the garden all put in. Once the onions are harvested, I'll likely plant some additional sweet corn and snap beans as well as cowpeas. We have caught two swarms of honeybees and have two boxes set up. We have been inspecting them every other week. In hive one (the one with the brick on top), we have a laying queen. A week ago we saw eggs. The queen can lay 2,000 eggs per day. On Monday of this week, we saw larvae! Hive 1 appears to be good. In Hive 2, we still don't see eggs, but we caught that swarm a week and a half later. We'll inspect next week and hopefully we'll see eggs. Regardless, we're going to put out another swarm trap or two this weekend.
The snap beans are blooming like crazy and are tall and healthy. Two varieties of sweet corn flank the snap beans. I can see the tassels about to come out. It's all progressing nicely.
This bean variety is a new one for us on Our Maker's Acres Family Farm. It's called the purple teepee bean. It's blooming beautiful purple flowers and setting small pods.
This is a photo of what the harvested beans will look like from the seed catalog photo that I ordered them from: Rareseeds.com.
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| Image Credit: Rareseeds.com |
I'm anxious to check this out and see if they taste as good as they are pretty. Lot's going on in the garden and in the chicken tractor. I'll have more updates later to share.
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