Did you know? You can survive on a diet of only potatoes? The poor Irish peasants of the early 1800s did so for generations, potatoes and a little cabbage. When the "potato blight" hit they starved or emigrated to America.
Today was planting day in the raised bed garden. Peas along the fence to the right, Russet potatoes planted where each of the little sticks is seen. There are six more of another species planted in the adjoining bed. Lettuce and salad stuff will be planted in a couple of weeks.
And the Mason Bees are beginning to wake from their long winter hibernation. The males began to emerge a couple of days ago. Lots of holes here for them to lay the eggs in for next years population.
SPRING IS ON THE WAY
SPRING IS ON THE WAY
