Carrots

Maybe it doesn't look like a carrot patch yet, but they're in there.  Two rows, right in the grooves I pressed in.  And to the right are potatoes, and beyond that is half of the garlic crop, just about reaching the end of it's course.  

Bee update 2013

Now that it's May it's bee swarm season.  And since both of my hives died last year, I equate swarm season with free bees...  So here's how it works:

Step 1: find a swarm of bees.  Ok, done.

Step 2: Shake/scoop/snip the swarm (+/- the branch) into your hive, or any old box.  Assuming the queen lands in the box, the workers follow her pheromones and stream into the box.  Pretty cool video?  I know, right?!

Step 3: Relocate the hive somewhere nice, and enjoy your new colony of honey bees.