Onions and Compost

The onions will be plentiful this year at Honeybee Hollow. Our worker bees were busy again, blocking soil and planting seeds. 160 onions were started this week. While Amelie planted, Penelope imitated the ferocious fire ant that we all should watch out for in the garden. What can be more ferocious than that face? :-)


As the snow has melted, it's once again time to scoop the poop. Sam has continued to eat all winter long and the back yard definitely shows it. Instead of scooping and dumping this year, we've decided to be kinder to the garbage man and to the landfill. We put in a dog poop septic system. Basically, it's a plastic pail with holes and some rocks in it. We buried it in the ground, then fill it with poop, put in some septic starter and Tada! ~ no more poop. It's in the ground and I still have to work on the poop part, so I'll let you know how it goes.

And here's one shot of the poop creator: