Bon's Garden Compound

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2022 resulted in a very odd tomato plant. The cats smell something fishy about it, not sure about that umbillical flower on it either...... The mater is heirloom, 'Hege's German Pink' and it had enough acid to encourage another bite, not as bland as some of the big pink beefsteaks. It does have darker pink stripes as well. I felt it tasted better than Todd County Amish which I'd grown the same year. Maybe if I picked it when it had less watering and rain the flavor would have been stronger. I did save lots of seeds from it.

 

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Went out at 6:30 am. A few forager bees were already out. Lots of foragers were still in the nuc box in the greenhouse so I sorted out the hive parts and took the one with the most bees in it and set them up AGAIN on top of their old hive in the new location. I piled brush in front of the door this time. Sigh. The greenhouse is BUZZING inside, so foragers are back there which is the old bee hive site. You are supposed to block their door with grass/weeds at night, then relocate them to a new area and pile brush up in front of their door so they can reorient themselves. I'll be suiting up and messing with the new location hive today. Hopefully that hive will sort itself out. Bees are notorious for getting lost when you move them. Kinda hoping it would have rained overnight and washed away all their bee scent trails!!

 

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5/27 Turkey hen is still in the garden and she has 6 chicks still (poults is the proper term for baby turkeys.) My girl looks bronze but she is from Narraganset stock and bread Narraganset. Still about 1/2 the poults usually turn up Bronze instead of black and white striped.

 

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I checked over the straggle stressed tomato and pepper seedlings. I'd put them out and then it dropped to 41 degrees. Tomatoes turned purple due to cold stress. I have raspberries and blackberries to pot up and I want to repot my blueberries... I'm going to start some beans as well. I have a greenstalk plant (able to restrict my lust to just ONE) and will do some bush beans in the lower tiers as well...