A great Spring starts in late Summer

Tending God’s lovely creation

  • Blackberry plants need to be cleaned of old canes, and the new ones encouraged to grow for a good harvest next year.
    Blackberry plants need to be cleaned of old canes, and the new ones encouraged to grow for a good harvest next year.
  • Blackberry plants “decluttered” and preparing for overwintering. COURTESY PHOTOS
    Blackberry plants “decluttered” and preparing for overwintering. COURTESY PHOTOS
  • A great Spring starts in late Summer
    A great Spring starts in late Summer
Spring is when nearly everything blooms and reproduces itself, both plant and animal. However, spring is only the result (or evidence) of work done in late summer the year before. We teach new beekeepers this phrase about preparing for winter: “Take care of the bees that will take care of the bees, that will go through winter.” Those winter bees are produced in October, and they will be the same…

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