re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Reading through this thread has me pretty jealous. Tax season has mostly kept me out of the garden so far. There was one day I was able to get in there though and plant strawberries around my fig tree and then plant my tomatoes and 2 pepper plants that I bought in another bed.

I've currently got 6 more peppers and some cucumbers waiting to go outside that lagged behind everything else and 5-6 watermelon seedlings that I'll have to find a home for. I'm hoping this weekend I can get outside and start hardening off what needs to be moved so they will be ready to plant in a couple of weeks.

I was also able to check my hives and they look solid. One seems like it was fighting something for a while, maybe a virus? I need to do a mite check. Tons of dead bees on the ground in front and on the bottom board but everything else looked fine. Eggs, larvae, capped brood, and they were busy bringing in pollen and nectar. It is slightly behind my other hive but not by much and now the dead bees are gone so hopefully whatever it was has passed. Honey supers were added and last I checked they had quickly started filling those up.

2 more weeks and I can have fun.