Will the rain ever stop? April had 5.63 inches of rain which is 2.5 inches more than average. It's making it very hard to get anything done around the farm. The lawn is ready to be mowed but it's always wet and there are some extremely wet spots. Must be Murphy's law because we just got a new (to us) mower and I've been waiting to try it out. It's a 52 inch Toro commercial zero turn walk behind we got on Craig's list and it should drastically decrease mowing time for us so we can focus on other things.
All this rain has also caused some drainage problems for us as our entire place is on a hill. The winter melt and all this rain runs down the the hill and then down our drive way softening it up and creating deep ruts. So one of the projects for this summer will be to install drain tile to help control the water run off from melt and rain.
Cool temperatures have accompanied all this rain which has slowed the blossoming of our 8 Apple trees which is a blessing in disguise because another project we are undertaking is making a bee "hotel" for mason bees to help pollinate our apple and pear trees as well as our blueberries, blackberries and grapes. Mason bees are the slightly larger and much more docile cousins of the honey bee who live in the holes left behind by wood boring insects or woodpeckers.The buds are just starting to come out on the trees we pruned this past February so hopefully i can get it done before they blossom. I will be posting more on this later.
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