Spring is early but we'll take it!

I remember, back in the fall, driving the pickup truck slowly, oh-so-very-slowly, round and round and up and down the field while Will sat on the tailgate, spreading clover seed and saying (way too frequently) "Too fast! Slow Down! Turn Left! Turn Right! Not THAT way!" What I DON'T remember is driving round and round only the outside edge of the field...but if you look at it now, you'd think we only seeded the edges and not the inner part...thats the way the clover chose to come up. There is some in the middle, but not a lot. The edge looks great, though! There'll still be plenty for the bees (all are very busy, by the way). Will has plans to take a couple of the hives over to a friends organic blueberry farm when the bushes bloom. He also wants a new hive of 'Russian Bees'. Don't ask. I have no idea what they are or how they are different. If I can encourage Will to post here, maybe he'll enlighten all of us.
And then we have the strawberries (yea!). Three 75-foot rows. That's a lot of strawberry plants. As you can see, they are blooming and setting. Will can say 'now don't get too excited' all he wants, but as we say down here...'me, I'm excited!' It is true. Many times, a crop looks fabulous but the weather turns or a pest enters the scene, and suddenly the crop takes a downturn. And we would hate to get our customers all anticipating a bumper crop of berries only to wind up with a lot of disappointed folks. I have to say, though, we have never had a strawberry crop that didn't perform, and I don't expect this year will be any different. It's so great to have SOMETHING in February in the garden. The only way for that to happen is to get out there in November and make sure you get those plants in the ground. We don't get to it every year. The window is fairly small for strawberry planting, and you have to locate the little plants and have somebody put them aside for you. P.S.; ditto for garlic, and we did that too! Of course, garlic doesn't look as exciting as a little plant full of strawberries, but it's a great thing to have a lot of.