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How do you know it's leylines you're detecting and not something else in the ground. Don't get me wrong I was convinced by an old boy 40 years ago about dowsing, he was a plumber and used a pair of rods to find an underground pipe that our spring water ran through across a 3 acre field. We only...

I cut the grass around mine in the late evening when they've all gone in and settled. Early morning would be OK. but the grass tends to be too wet from the overnight dew. Never wear anything special to do the job though.

Ah well! I am half deaf and wear a hearing aid.:D

I collected some Evodia seed in a park in Dusseldorf 3 years ago, planted 7 of them out last Autumn @ about 1' high, they have more than doubled in height so far this year, not in a sheltered spot but Dusseldorf tends to have much colder Winters than we do and the fact there were seed means they...

Replacement gas works out much cheaper too.

Unfortunately bow hunting is illegal here in the UK :nono: but I'm not far away from the forest and I am licenced to shoot wild boar.

Well maybe I made a mstake last week when I AS'd a hive. I have horizontal hives and as I understood it was the flying foragers that swarmed with the old queen I put the new hive next to the old and then transferred the frames one by one looking for the queen(which I marked the day before)...

Forgive my ignorance, but I was under the impression that in a natural swarm it was the older forager bees that left with the queen to set up a new home and draw out comb from scratch, in nature without even the benefit of foundation?

Easy enough in Hampshire where you have acid soil but up here in Bath I had to construct an acid bed for the plants, still they do flower well and look quite good.

Unfortunately you can no longer get anything with 245T in it but that was definitely the best. Surprisingly my three sons show no signs of any abnormalities! :rolleyes:

Being as I have 4 manuka bushes planted within 3yrds of my hives do you think I should get a pollen analysis done and label my honey as Manuka? To be honest I never saw a single honey bee on the Manuka last year but the bumbles seem to love it.

I'm only in my third year but when I captured my first swarm at the back of my house I soon decided that they needed to be moved to the front about 50yrds away, using a few twigs of cotoneaster horizontalis there were no problems and that's where they now reside 20yrds from the front door and...

I use Tanzanian style top bar hives that I make to take standard frame sizes. The one Kenyan TBH I started with was soon converted to take standard frames. I still have a few simple top bars in amongst the frames but the bees seem to mirror the shape of the adjacent frames and very rarely make...

I put four plants in near my hives last year. They were about 2-3 feet tall and covered in flowers, the bumbles seemed to love them but my bees left them well alone, they seemed to prefer the white clover in the grass all around the hives.

When sighting structures on unstable soils the tried and tested method is to use piles. I'm not suggesting that the weight of a hive requires anything too substantial but a scaled down version should do the trick. I suggest sinking 4 posts into the ground and put a platform on linking cross...

Far from being liberally dispersed the amount of pesticide is very small and consentrated into less than a 2" area around the nest entrance hole. The powder itself contains 0.5% W/W Permethrin. "Permethrin is both an insecticide and a repellent, so it both kills and repels ticks and mosquitoes...

Trapping or squashing wasps individually seems like a fairly innefficient way to control a wasp problem to me. Around here due to the very dry period we've had there are lots of in ground wasp nests and locating these and treating them with cheap ant powder seems to me to be a much more...

My girls seem to be collecting plenty of pollen at the moment, I think it might be from the Clematis vitalba (old man's beard) that is flowering all around the hedgerows here at the moment. Not sure how much nectar they can get from clematis though. We've got loads of ivy in the hedgerows but...

I wasn't too worried about the wasps around my hives when they were just nosing around and being chased off by the bees, sure they attacked and took off some of the weaker bees that landed short of the hive but it wasn't that many. Then I watched as they started nipping into the hives when the...

Tic beans and white peas are left to dry in the pod before harvesting for pigeon feeds. As are peas and beans used for next years seed.