Spring

Um, and the p- plant protectors, whether it's floating row cover or something else to get them established well.

Springtime, that's probably an all right way of doing it.

We got our planting dates.

Fertilizers, you're all adding organic matter at some time, whether it's in the fall or in the spring, and so you probably don't need to do anything.

The Miracle by John Drinkwater.

Read for LibriVox.org. Come, sweetheart, listen, for I have a thing Most wonderful to tell you: news of Spring, Albeit winter still is in the air, And the earth troubled, and the branches bare.

Yet down the fields today I saw her pass, The Spring: her feet went shining through the grass.

She touched the ragged hedgerows; I have seen Her finger-prints, most delicately green; And she has whispered to the crocus leaves And to the garrulous sparrows in the eaves.

Swiftly she passed, and shyly, and her fair Young face was hidden in her cloudy hair.

She would not stay: her season is not yet; But she has reawakened, and has set The sap of all the world astir, and rent Once more the shadows of our discontent.

Triumphant news! a miracle I sing, The everlasting miracle of Spring.

End of poem.

Having now seen the novice comfortably started with his swarm in May, the best of all ways to commence beekeeping, we will turn back to the beginning of a typical calendar year in the life of a modern honey producer, and go through it month by month to the year's end, endeavouring to deal with all its difficulties and equivocal points by the way.

End of Section 2 Section 3 of Beekeeping Do's and Don'ts by Tickner Edwards This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Spring and Summer Management The honeybee's year properly commences at what old country folk call the turn of the days.

That is to say, soon after Christmas time, when the mornings and evenings have just begun to draw out, albeit imperceptibly at first.

It is then that the queen, hitherto snugly laid up in the heart of the warm, drowsy cluster of worker bees, feels again the call of nature, and the first few eggs are deposited in the inmost cells of the central brood frame, soon to be hatched into tiny, glistening white grubs.

The Princess Race Weekend is toward the end of February, sometimes dipping into the very beginning of March, like it does this year.

And then finally, the Springtime Surprise Race Weekend takes place in early to mid-April.

Also different among the race weekends is what the longest race of the race weekend is.

You have a half marathon for both Wine & Dine Race Weekend and Princess Race Weekend.

There's a full marathon, as well as a half marathon, during Marathon Weekend in January, and then Springtime Surprise Weekend in April has its longest race as a 10-miler.

So needless to say, if you're looking for a particular distance, that might weigh into your decision as well.

So what we'll do for the rest of the episode is kind of talk through the things that are different between the race weekends to help you differentiate among them.

It takes us all some time to learn, but if you're on the course during Princess, sometimes you do need to be a little bit more patient with people who might not know to, for example, signal before you slow down on the course or something like that.

Autumn was next.

I think they've done Summer, so Spring is still coming.

I think I might have Spring.

Oh, maybe not.

Is it Spring? But with-

Or do we have Spring and Summer is coming?

That's what I'm thinking, yeah.

No, I f- yeah.

I love fall.

Spring's my favorite.

But actually the older I get the more I like

spring.

Spring's great.

Spring's great.

You just see all the new life.

Like animals and green and Well, so how should we get started? Do you want to recap the Disney trip real quick or do you want to just go straight in? Because at the end of the last podcast, we said that we would ask us questions and we would answer them.

But you're only doing Autumn.

Who else has written Spring, Summer-

Oh, well, this is the-

... and Winter?

Yeah

...

Spring, the great Michael Morpurgo.

Yes.