Of course, our own garden needs to be put in. So, I braved the black flies - with a spray can of bug repellant and a hat - and moved manure into two of our 8'x8' raised beds. I laid down a thick layer and planted peas, lettuce, and beets. In another box, I planted the multicolored pole beans.



This week, I'll move more manure to fill the remaing 6 raised beds, and plant spinach, herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, basil, leeks, broccoli, okra, and other goodies.



Next weekend we get 2 more nucs of bees - to have a total of 4 hives. We'll finish putting my vegetable garden in, then finish the collective garden. My reward for all of that is time to work on my flower beds and pots around the house. I'm also doing some veggies in pots near the kitchen - tomatoes, peppers, and lettuces for cutting.



Big chores still loom - carting the manure from the barn to the compost pile, and finishing cleaning up the coops and getting the older birds out in the chicken tractor, which needs to be rebuilt. We'll be receiving our meat birds in a few weeks and the front coop will need to be cleaned out, sanitized and dry, before they can be housed there.



We got a lot done this weekend.