the latest, greatest garden in nashville + a bee update

things are a bit quiet in the bee yard. the girls are gearing up for winter and not much is going on.

and then we opened the lid and saw just why it is so quiet outside. the girls have been busy building comb all over the place!!!

a close up of the girls and their mess

and one of darry cleaning it...he is fully dressed this time, last time he was stung twice

darry set all of the comb he scraped off to the side to let the girls reclaim the honey. two days later, they had stripped that comb of every bit of honey-only the comb was left.

bees need to be treated preventively for things like mites. we placed some medication in the hive-it is mainly menthol and it smells like vapor rub. we will go back in to remove it in a week.

in the mean time, this is what is happening in the vegetable garden:

cabbage and kolrhabi, we've also got broccoli and brussels sprouts but i seem to have lost the photo...next time

a close up of the cabbage

tomatoes

kale from long hungry creek farm-home of the barefoot gardener, jeff poppen

peppers, lots of peppers

banana peppers-sweet of course

okay, i definitely had technical difficulties! i lost my photos of the serranos-hot peppers

eggplants

over in the raised tomato garden, things are sprouting. in the half at the bottom it is all salad greens. in the top half it is all asian greens like pak choi and japanese mustard.

see you soon, with all of the photos, i hope!