Recent content by Swampie

In other news, our first early blackberry patch is flowering. Pretty relieved it's coming early. The hawthorn in that area was a no show.

I was led to believe that creeping buttercup pollen was poisonous to honeybees? My girls are hitting it hard (while ingoring the good wholesome clover right next door). I had a terse word.

Yeah. This was my plan B and I actually went out there with an excluder, ready. But as a relatively new beek, the prospect of shaking out a full langstroth deep of moody 'local' bees was not high on my wishlist. I was pretty relieved to find that queen (and worth mentioning that she was a big...

Today, I had to put on my big girl pants and dig into my pretty 'hot' double brood langstroth, my only hive that I have been setting up for a split next week. With a queen on route, todays objectives were, 1. find that bloody queen, who has been dodging me for the last two months. Mark her. Then...

Camelia

Our earliest blackthorn tree.

Yeah. I forgot to mention garlic. I switched from a mix to 100% elephant garlic this year (planted last year). My thinking was that I can simply propogate so much more elephant garlic than garlic, if I up my game on the corms (which so far are going well). Also, elephant garlic has a well...

Hi everyone. First post from me. On the topic of onions, Ive never really put an effort in on them. A bit like carrots, I thought they were so cheap to buy, that they'd not be worth growing. In my mind I had a Venn diagram that has three circles: things that cost a bit to buy, things that my...