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Good point but i would rather have a gun, than just be standing there pointing a carrot.

I am just as bad for getting carried away. Good point though, hehe.

That sounds rather posh, must be lovely to have a meadow. Yeah m daisies need a bit of spreading anyway, its a large area.

Well if it isn't important to have a sustainable planet then what else is? It can sound a bit loud and as though doomsday is being predicted but it takes a long time to make things right. We have to start to change soon because it is inevitable that this way of farming will claps and when it...

It does really but my family moved out to the country because out here it was affordale housing ,we had lived on council estates before and thats not a bundle of fun. All the nice tree e places are usually expensive to live in, except if i went to scotland, and if i could afford to and didn't...

Really good site that gingerbees, it's hard to get some of them fruit trees nowadays because every where is stocking what fruit the super markets are selling .That is bullet hard fruits that are easily transported rather than some of our old fashioned sweet juicy delicate pears and things that...

I love it. If you see me in your garden with a sac barrow and a bee out fit don't mind me, just passing through. hehe

my land was totally impoverished and as a result there was not any worms just hard clay, the level of the soil must have dropped because land next to it was higher than mine from where tractors had been working one field over the years. But there is so much life there now in a short time. I am...

You shouldn't be so suspicious there could be a perfectly honest reason for having somthing like that in your garden, there might just be an electrician living there. Or a magpie mmmmm shiny things.

Good vid i'm gonna put some composting stuff in the bottom of my log top bar hive when i make, see if it can help againt the mites. Also thought about laying lavender in the bottom but would that confuse the poor bees with that smell being in there?

living in Spalding linconlshire where it's all farms few trees you can often taste the chemical and smell it stronge in the air when they are out spraying the fields, its a sad dead site a field of one crop constantly being fed with man made fertiliser and controlled with insecticides. You cant...

BBG that all sounds great lot of work ahead of me next spring. When i get a hive it is going up one end of the land because the other end is really windy and all i can do is wait for my trees to grow up to put a stop to it. Thanks everyone for the help, one day it will be perfect down the...

Shame you all cant get together and sell it for a set amount to rise the price for all the work and investment spent. But on the other hand if someone has planted wild flowers, taken time to have a huge variety of plants or is just in the right place and making really nice honey why should...

I know what plants bumble bees like because i have hundreds of them and they nest in the wood chip i have put on the land. But because i have no honey bees visiting i don't get to see for myself, that's why it's so good to talk to people that know. Hopefully it will be a different story next...

Yes Chris that thistle is everywhere on the land and there is one thats twice the size and one thats nearly as big as my fist. I have a lot of osier willow and the bees really loved that when it was out early in the year. I have nearly all thats on your list except for apricots nectarines...

Whats your honey like with all them different plants beeatshellards? I wonder if anyone knows what thistle honey is like seeing as thats what i have the most of. You see these people on the tv talking about the different tasting honey like it's a wine tasting session but is there much...

Beeatshelards I am aiming for a permaculture garden/woods. Trees are a must and crops not so much i have a veg patch and thats it i want wild flowers shrubs anything really love by bees. Diversity is key. Chinese bee tree sounds great i have never heard of it before. Thanks everyone for your help.

That sounds great Richardb, a lot of wild flowers have came back to the land on there own, because it was a hard patch of clay with no wind breaks at all when i bought it. But i have managed to make a third of it quite well protected from the wind and thats the part i can now start adding more...

Roughly 4.5 acres Chris

Amazing stuff Apprentice! You are certainly a thinker and craftsman. I however am a newbe and can't get my head around any of it. Thats why i'm gonna make you cry when i say i'm going to make a top bar hive from a log using a trusty chainsaw. SIMPLES