May Update - Bees, Garden, and Fishing Trip

One of our hives is doing great. Here's a picture of chris checking out the progress.

We found the queen! Not easy to do when she is hidden among 5000+ bees! She is the one in the middle with the longer body.

Launched out our front door to check out Back Bay and cast out a few worms. Dumpling caught a pickerel.

Chickens out in the clover.

Kitty found the catnip!

Picture of the garden and greenhouse. Spending alot of time in these two areas!!

This full cart represents 1 evening of work. 260 plants are in this setup, on their way out to the greenhouse after they are started in the garage, in the potting shed workbench. We have a goal of 4,200 seedlings that need to go in by the end of the month.

First tomatoes of the season. We have about 20 different types of tomatoes, half of which are heirloom tomatoes.

On our trip to West Virginia we stopped at a little roadside plant nursery that was selling seedlings. One of the types of heirloom tomatoes we had never heard of was called the "Mortgage Lifter". I was intrigued and did some research about how the plant got its name. Apparently in 1930's , during the great depression a guy who lived in the mountains of Logan West Virginia created this variety. He repaired trucks that couldnt make it up the steep mountains. He worked for 7 years to create his own type of tomato plant by crossing the 5 biggest tomato varieties he could find and cross-bred them to create this strain. People would drive up to 200 miles to get his seedlings in the spring. The fruits are supposed to average 2.5 lbs each. It's name came because he charged $1.00 per plant - which was a small fortune those days. He bought his home for $6,000 and paid it off with the profits from the plant sales!!

Being that I am in the financial services field for my day job...Thought that was the coolest plant story I had heard in a while! Maybe we need to create our own flower type! lol!!!