Well it's been a while since I've updated anything so here we go.
Finally made it thru 2015 it was a long year. seems funny how time goes by sometimes in flashes and other times as if crawls by.
Picked up 4 more bee hives this past year. I don't have them on the homestead yet, they are about 1 mile south of us right now. Will move them when the Ligustrum starts to bloom. There is about 1 and a hale acres of it about 300 yards to the southeast of us on the tree farm. The plan for this year is to really work with the bees. I posted earlier that brother and I had caught a swarm and brought them home. Well they are wide open by now. I've built and added two full size supers that were added to the top of the original one that we put the swarm into last spring. I will have to check them during the next sunny day we have to make sure that they aren't planning on swarming. If so I will split them and make two hives. It's been in the upper 60's and partly sunny for the last few days, but I've let other folks take up some of the time that should have I should have had spent here working the garden and bees and such.
LSU puts out a planting guide that gives dates to plant what and how long it should take to mature. So I've planted a 4 foot by 5 foot area of the garden in beets yesterday and will do carrots today. This is first time I've ever planted these in the spring. Next up is corn on the 15th of February and planting another area of corn every 4 weeks after that until the middle of June. Then Pole snap beans, Irish potatoes, and turnips by the end of February.
I'll post pics in the next few days.
