The Wonders of a Good Soil Massage

Recently the weather has been taking us for a roller-coaster ride.  Yesterday it was hot, today it's nice outside, and tomorrow it's supposed to be chilly.  Hopefully we'll get some rain tomorrow too!  We're already having to start watering everything each morning since the ground is so dry.  Unfortunately there haven't been too many April showers this year.Our plants are still doing well.  On Friday we went through and side-dressed our Swiss Chard transplants with some wonderful Panorama compost, making them nice and happy.  Michelle also worked the soil around our snap peas this weekend and now they are coming up!  We were getting worried, but the row is covered in little green sprouts now -- we have a feeling that we'll have a LOT of sugar snap peas this year!In other exciting news, we've started setting up our beehives now!  They don't have the actual honeybees in them yet, but they will soon.  We ordered our hive boxes separately from the bee colonies, which are called nucs.  Yesterday morning I set up the first one up on the hill overlooking our garden plot.  It took some time to level it, but it's looking good.  When I was stacking the boxes, a honeybee, I think from the wild colony that lives in the cedar tree near the Main House, buzzed around me and the hive.  I think that's a good sign!  We're going to set up the rest of the boxes later on this week, so please stay tuned for more pictures!