Another passion of mine

[Curly green finger's]

Glad you are up and about again.

Two weeks..today I'm surveying a garden then a couple of meetings with clients.
Then of to the yard to collect some boxes to send honey out to folk.

 

[Murox]

Two weeks..today I'm surveying a garden then a couple of meetings with clients.
Then of to the yard to collect some boxes to send honey out to folk.

 

[Michael ECB's]

Great workmanship..... Well done.... You can see it's a passion...

 

[The Poot]

Two weeks..today I'm surveying a garden then a couple of meetings with clients.
Then of to the yard to collect some boxes to send honey out to folk.

Good stuff

 

[Apple]

For Want of a Better Word... Brilliant!

One of my apiary owners died recently and I was worried that his widow would sell up and go.
Yesterday she said she was going to "clean up" the 4 acre field where my apiary is sited and plant a wildflower meadow in his memory... I have been fighting a losing battle for the past 10 years against the bramble and bracken... as far as we know no animals have been kept on the field for 50 years.

Any advice appreciated!
Cheers

Chons da

 

[Curly green finger's]

For Want of a Better Word... Brilliant!

One of my apiary owners died recently and I was worried that his widow would sell up and go.
Yesterday she said she was going to "clean up" the 4 acre field where my apiary is sited and plant a wildflower meadow in his memory... I have been fighting a losing battle for the past 10 years against the bramble and bracken... as far as we know no animals have been kept on the field for 50 years.

Any advice appreciated!
Cheers

Chons da

Straight to it... Bracken I've found is best to be pulled up or mowed very often or both
Here farmers mow strips going up the hill they are mulching it really and that stops it from growing.
I wouldn't want to recommend herbicide as no sprays thankyou!!
Brambles keep them cut short with a brush cutter and dig them up.
Big areas flail mower, and then shallow rotavate.
If there's lots of brash you could row it up with a teeder rake or combie, and set a match to it..

 

[Apple]

I towed a set of my old Goodridge mud terrain tyres up and down over the bracken when the bracken started to sprout this Spring... knocked some back... and had a flail at the worst of the bramble around the hives.
May have to move the bees out as it seems the whole field is going to be scrarrified.
An excellent secure site which onece has good access to the heather on Kit Hill... now due to lack of management by Cornwall Council most of that heather has gone!
My passion would to see it return... but a !"wildflower meadow"! will do !!

Chons da

 

[Murox]

Wild boar will churn the ground for the roots and interestingly Soay Sheep can eat it

 

[Apple]

Re Wilding of Kit Hill.... that would upset the doggers!

 

[Apple]

Re Wilding of Kit Hill.... that would upset the doggers!

Sorry... DOG WALKERS !!!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Sorry... DOG WALKERS !!!

Dogging is last year.. Its all done on zoom now

 

[Swn58]

I'm sharing this because I love designing gardens as much as beekeeping.

This is the garden of Thyme it has a clock face incorporated in one of the cycles with different varieties of Thyme .
Cheers mark

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Great designs and well executed. I used to love doing stuff like that!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Great designs and well executed. I used to love doing stuff like that!

It is rewarding to build something out of just materials from the clients yard.

The garden of thyme was the clients idea of a clock I just deigned it further using scraps.
The public can visit his nursery and pay to walk round the gardens, worth a visit as he has some real bizzare gems there.
This is in Hartlebury Worcestershire if any one wants the details pm me?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Dogging is last year.. Its all done on zoom now

Makes a mess of the screen though

 

[Swn58]

It is rewarding to build something out of just materials from the clients yard.

The garden of thyme was the clients idea of a clock I just deigned it further using scraps.
The public can visit his nursery and pay to walk round the gardens, worth a visit as he has some real bizzare gems there.
This is in Hartlebury Worcestershire if any one wants the details pm me?

I will have to dig out some photos of my landscaping adventures. It was so weird looking at your images. They could have been pictures of what I was doing twenty years ago! I built a path up a garden in Lewes once, using old brick and stone. The style was almost identical.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Makes a mess of the screen though

Well you have loads of soda crystals? get and clean it of!! and crack on

 

[Apple]

Well you have loads of soda crystals? get and clean it of!! and crack on

Methinks the Old Salt is leading you up the garden path !

Yeghes da

 

[Curly green finger's]

Methinks the Old Salt is leading you up the garden path !

Yeghes da

As always.. He's a bugger for it.
I bet he was a right little tera, as a wee Ben.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Well you have loads of soda crystals? get and clean it of!! and crack on

rather than cracking one off?

 

[Curly green finger's]

rather than cracking one off?

That saying...??..It all depends where you come from.